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Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/weave/weave.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

systemctl status docker shows active and running docker ps will give this error

cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/weave/weave.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Solution

  • The location of the socket indicates that your $DOCKER_HOST environment variable has been set to point at the weave proxy. The fact that it doesn't respond means that the weave proxy is not running.

    There are two remedies:

    1. You can clear the environment variable, so that you're talking directly to docker again. Try

    weave env --restore

    or if that doesn't appear to work,

    export DOCKER_HOST=

    1. Or, you can try to get the weave proxy to run, so that it's there to answer on the socket. Try the link above for instructions.