Docker daemon is not running
Doing an combination of following two things might help :
- Exit docker from tray (lower right hand of the windows desktop)
- Relaunch it as administrator (Start Menu --> Type "Docker" --> Right Click the icon --> "Run as Administrator"
Please see if you still get the error.
Seems to be related to the below issue:
I had the same issue - I was able to resolve the issue by running power shell with Admin privs. I validated this was the same behavior for running the commands via elevated cmd prompt. It also enabled docker run hello-world command which was returning the error message ...Access is denied. In the default daemon configuration on Windows, the docker client must be run elevated to connect. This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running.
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I did the following :
In windows you can go to the show hidden icon in the taskbar, hover your cursor on the docker icon and right click then a drop down menu will be shown and from that click restart.
press windows key + R
%appdata%\Docker
delete all the the files in the folder
killed the docker process in task bar.
try to open docker gui again.
check out this link if none of the above works, check out this link : Docker cannot start on Windows
check link : https://bobcares.com/blog/docker-error-response-from-daemon-i-o-timeout/
- if nothing is work try to uninstall and reinstall the docker.