No live output from containers running on Docker Desktop with WSL2

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I'm developing an python-django app running in docker containers (django, celery, postgres, redist...etc). It runs on Windows 10 with WSL2-Debian & Docker Desktop.

During my work I need to observe the consoles of all those containers, so I can monitor apps behavior, like when you run docker-compose up so you got all of them live.

When you click on the container within windowed Docker Desktop app you can see the container's console output, but not actual - it looks like it works until some point of time and there are no updates of the consoles output. I remember it was working live just prior to a two or three Docker Desktop updates, and I'm sure it was real time there, but not now.

Did I change a setting or Docker Desktop was bugged?

PS. When I start my containers with docker-compose up (without -d) I can observe live logs on my shell console, but not in Docker Desktop anymore.

Any help how to restore Docker Desktop live console view?

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2 Answers

The Docker Desktop 3.4 (released June 9th, yesterday) is supposed to have resolved docker/for-win issue 11251.

I don't see the error after upgrading (with the normal docker-compose, not the beta docker-compose v2).

However, as commented by the OP twk and in issue 11251:

the live log is somehow broken - extra newline is added after every new line, but historical log entries (Eg. when you switch to/from another container) are displayed without newlines between entries (which is OK).

Update June 29th from Mathieu Champlon

Sorry it took a while but we now have an internal build that should fix it, if you wanted to give it a try:
win/stable/amd64/66242/Docker Desktop Installer.exe

Update Aug. 2021: Issue 11251 just closed with:

Docker Desktop 3.6.0 has been released containing a fix for this issue.

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