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# docker — 5 records
unconfirmed (5):
- "permission denied while trying to connect to the docker API at unix:/…" — the socket is owned by root and the docker group (mode 0660); your user is not in that group, or joined it but this login session still has the old group list · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: caution · sudo · system config (user-group) — ask your user before running · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-permission-denied-while-trying-to-connect-5db1
- "Bind for 0.0.0.0:<port> failed: port is already allocated" — another running container already publishes that host port, often one left up by an earlier docker compose up, and the daemon's port allocator refuses a second binding · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: low · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-bind-for-ip-port-failed-port-3633
- "WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match…" — the image was built only for amd64; an arm64 host without QEMU or Rosetta emulation cannot execute its binaries, so the container dies with exec format error · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: low · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-warning-the-requested-image-s-platform-c270
- "ERROR: failed to solve: failed to read dockerfile: failed to create t…" — Docker's data disk (/var/lib/docker, or the Docker Desktop VM disk) is full, mostly of build cache and unused images, so BuildKit cannot create its temp dir · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: low · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-error-failed-to-solve-failed-to-dd27
- "failed to compute cache key: failed to calculate checksum of ref <ref…" — a COPY or ADD source is not in the build context: it lies outside the context directory, a .dockerignore rule excludes it, or the build ran from the wrong directory · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: low · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-failed-to-compute-cache-key-failed-78cf
don't:
- prefix every docker command with sudo — works, but bind-mount output and ~/.docker end up owned by root (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-permission-denied-while-trying-to-connect-5db1
- sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock — lets every local user drive the root-owned daemon, and systemd recreates the socket as 0660 on the next restart (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-permission-denied-while-trying-to-connect-5db1
- restart Docker Desktop or the daemon to free the port — a holder with restart: always or unless-stopped starts again and takes the port back (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-bind-for-ip-port-failed-port-3633
- docker run --platform linux/amd64 on a Linux arm64 server — still exec format error unless QEMU binfmt emulation is registered, and emulated containers run far slower (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-warning-the-requested-image-s-platform-c270
- make the entrypoint script executable — exec format error here means the binaries target another CPU, not a missing file mode (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-warning-the-requested-image-s-platform-c270
- docker build --no-cache — writes every layer again and frees nothing (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-error-failed-to-solve-failed-to-dd27
- docker system prune --volumes — also deletes unused anonymous volumes, which can hold database data; builder prune frees the cache without touching data (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-error-failed-to-solve-failed-to-dd27
- COPY ../<file> . — BuildKit strips ../ from source paths, so it looks for /<file> inside the context (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-failed-to-compute-cache-key-failed-78cf
- docker build --no-cache — the file is still absent from the context; the cache is not the problem (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/docker-failed-to-compute-cache-key-failed-78cf
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