Running Docker Image on WSL - Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

Docker
#1

I tried to run the demo image with below command

sudo docker run docker/whalesay cowsay Hello-world!"

And I am getting below response
docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?.
See ‘docker run --help’.

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OS: I am using Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS in Windows subsystem for Linux

I have below version of Docker installed
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Can someone help me with this issue ?

#3
  • Do you have WSL, or WSL2?
  • Did you install Docker Desktop and allow it to also install the WSL2 components?
  • Is Docker Desktop actually running?
  • (if you are using a non-default distro) Did you go into Resources in the Docker Desktop configuration and make sure that WSL2 integration is explicitly enabled for your WSL2 distro?

I just did everything in the list above, and I went from “not working” (1st attempt, error message) to “working” (2nd attempt)

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#4

You probably still have to start the docker service. Can you run sudo systemctl start docker and try again?

#5

Dear @venkateshmg.

Kindly check what @HerrSubset mentioned and feed us back.