The Docker Desktop icon flashes on the dock briefly and it doesn’t launch. It crashes silently without any error messages on the screen. The com.docker.diagnose tool is unable to diagnose from the terminal, the output of which has been attached below.
Output of /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose check
➜ ~ /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose check
Starting diagnostics
[PASS] DD0027: is there available disk space on the host?
[SKIP] DD0028: is there available VM disk space?
[FAIL] DD0031: does the Docker API work? Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix://docker.raw.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
[1] 3128 killed /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose check
Output of /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose gather --upload
➜ ~ /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose gather --upload
Gathering diagnostics for ID 4DC1603E-1354-4CA3-BB31-4E0C839D67C2/20220819183640 into /var/folders/q1/9nwl1r8s4hgcp4q8_grx1kvmw56qkc/T/4DC1603E-1354-4CA3-BB31-4E0C839D67C2/20220819183640.zip.
This may take up to 15 minutes.
time="2022-08-20T00:06:40+05:30" level=info msg="Triggering Linux sysrq and log flushes via a unix socket: diagnosticd.sock" type=unixsock
time="2022-08-20T00:06:40+05:30" level=warning msg="/flush failed: Post \"http://unix/flush\": dial unix diagnosticd.sock: connect: no such file or directory" type=unixsock
[1] 3639 killed /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/com.docker.diagnose gather --upload
Information
- macOS Version: 12.2.1
- Intel chip or Apple chip: Intel
- Docker Desktop Version: 4.11.1