I am trying to start my dockerd daemon by this command - dockerd & Then i start getting the error as below -
ERRO[0036] libcontainerd: failed to receive event from containerd: rpc error: code = 12 desc = unknown service types.API
This keeps rolling again and again and i am unable to start any container after that. If i close the session and open a new session, i could see docker ps is accessible. But i am unable to start any container. While starting the container I am getting error -
docker run hello-world
docker: Error response from daemon: unknown service types.API. ERRO[0000] error waiting for container: context canceled
Please let me know if any logs are needed.
Why do you start the docker daemon using dockerd & and not systemctl start docker.service? This is probably the cause of your problem.
In order to start the daemon at boot, you need to run systemctl enable docker.service. See Getting Started with Containers.
Note that the kernel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 only supports a limited subset of the functionality needed for container support, and I don't think anyone tests either the daemon or container images on that operating system version.