Docker forever in “Docker is starting..” at windows task

I have install docker stable version and it took forever to start. Until now i have not seen the notification showing Docker is running. Can only see the docker icon at the task bar, showing Docker is starting.

I am running on windows 10 Pro, Intel core 2 duo E8500, supporting virtualization.

Please help.

Thanks.

2 Answers

Answers 1

This is followed by docker/for-win issue 487 and mostly: issue 482.

The Diagnose and Feedback menu should allow you to access the logs which are in:

 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker\log.txt 

It will generate a zip file with said logs and other information.

The default recommendation is:

• Reset to factory defaults (from the whale menu, Settings, reset)
• If that doesn't work, manually uninstall docker and download the latest installer from https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/

But sometimes, all the options in the "Reset" pane are grayed out.

For testing, desactivating the AV (AntiVirus) is an option (again, just to be tested).

Check also the state of your Network adapater in the device manager.

If you have a third-party network product like a VPN (for instance https://www.zerotier.com/), try and uninstall it before restarting docker.

Resetting Hyper-V could help:

Go to "Turn Windows features on or off", disable all Hyper-V related features, reboot, then Docker should ask if it can enable and reboot for you.
Let it do that and see if it's fixed. If not I'd probably try manually re-enabling Hyper-V.

Similarly:

I had a problem with most recent version. I uninstalled it, removed all docker folders and server and virtual switch from hyper-v and then reinstalled and it worked.

Check if you don't have some IP address already in use.
Finally, you can perform some Hyper-V tests.

Answers 2

UPDATE

Looks like in Docker for Windows version: 17.09.0-ce-win33 (13620) they fixed the problem

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This is an annoying problem that docker for Windows has. The latests versions have minimized it a lot but it still happens.

1. Check if docker for Windows will start when windows starts (this is the default behavior) if not check it.
2. Shutdown the machine. No restart. Shutdown.

Everytime you find this problem just shutdown the machine. The next time Windows boot docker will start very fast.

I know it looks esoteric but it works.

Regards Carlos

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