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

[AllieUbisse]

• This is a bug report
• This is a feature request
• I searched existing issues before opening this one

Expected behavior

Actual behavior

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Output of docker version:

Docker version 19.03.8, build afacb8b7f0

Output of docker info:

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

Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc.)

physical

[vitaliikapliuk]

Try with sudo

[AllieUbisse]

@vitaliikapliuk
Running on WSL
-----OUT-PUT------

 sudo service docker status                                                                                          
 * Docker is not running

 sudo service docker start                                                                                         
 * Starting Docker: docker                                                                                                                   
[ OK ] 

 sudo service docker status                                                                                        
 * Docker is running

  sudo docker run hello-world   
docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?.
See 'docker run --help'.

[fjwbarnard]

Docker does not work on WSL out of the box. See:

• Docker daemon fails with following output microsoft/WSL#2291 (comment)
• https://medium.com/faun/docker-running-seamlessly-in-windows-subsystem-linux-6ef8412377aa

WSL2 supports it though as far as I know

[thaJeztah]

Yes, WSL is not supported as it does not provide all the kernel facilities needed to run Docker. Current versions of Docker Desktop is the recommended way to run Docker on Windows, and can use WSL2 to run docker (see https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/wsl/)

closing this ticket because of the above, but feel free to continue the conversation