< fast garage 66093> I had a load of trouble getting RD to r rancher-users #rancher-desktop

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rhythmic-umbrella-94086

07/13/2022, 4:54 PM

@fast-garage-66093 I had a load of trouble getting RD to run on a fresh install. Turned out old ~/.docker settings from having run Colima in the past were messing things up. Might be good to put something in the FAQ about that.

fast-garage-66093

07/13/2022, 4:55 PM

Can you tell what specifically was the problem?

Just that you switched the docker context away from default, or something else?

rhythmic-umbrella-94086

07/13/2022, 4:56 PM

ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///Users/{user}/.colima/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

I just rm’d .docker and it fixed it

fast-garage-66093

07/13/2022, 4:57 PM

You don't have the content of the old

~/.docker/config

anymore, maybe in the shell buffer?

I suspect it was just you setting

docker context use colima

and running

docker context use default

docker context use rancher-desktop

might have fixed it

Ah sorry, I missed that you posted the error above. That pretty much confirms that you were still using the colima context

rhythmic-umbrella-94086

07/13/2022, 4:58 PM

I had not run any docker context commands. The Colima thing was from weeks ago.

fast-garage-66093

07/13/2022, 4:59 PM

Hmm, maybe colima automatically changes context for you

rhythmic-umbrella-94086

07/13/2022, 5:03 PM

Not sure. I didn’t see anything in my .zshrc anyway

fast-garage-66093

07/13/2022, 5:12 PM

It is something colima seems to do automatically: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/blob/da0f301a83802a7046bbfffe2cc1e1d6a9698b42/environment/container/docker/context.go#L32-L34

So it runs

docker context use colima

for you, and that information is persisted in

~/.docker/config.json

rhythmic-umbrella-94086

07/13/2022, 5:18 PM

Thanks for the info. Maybe it’s too much of an edge case for an FAQ but it sure bit me 🙂

fast-garage-66093

07/13/2022, 5:19 PM

No, it is something that Rancher Desktop should detect and alert you too. I'm updating Add diagnostics to "Troubleshooting" page · Issue #2319 · rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop with more ideas right now.

I think having some visual cue in the app (and maybe the tray icon) that something is misconfigured would be even more helpful than a FAQ entry because it would proactively alert you

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