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Access to \\.\pipe\dockerBackendApiServer is denied

Open jacob-morosco opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Description

I have sucessfully installed in PowerShell via: $ Start-Process 'Docker Desktop Installer.exe' -Wait -ArgumentList 'install', '--accept-license', '--backend=wsl-2', '--always-run-service' and $ net localgroup docker-users USERNAME /add

When Docker is run as administrator, the following error occurs: """ starting services: initializing Backend API: listening on \.\pipe\dockerBackendApiServer: open \.\pipe\dockerBackendApiServer: Access is denied. """ Reset to factory defaults has already been tried with no success.

Reproduce

  1. $ Start-Process 'Docker Desktop Installer.exe' -Wait -ArgumentList 'install', '--accept-license', '--backend=wsl-2', '--always-run-service'
  2. $ net localgroup docker-users USERNAME /add
  3. Restart computer
  4. Run Docker Desktop as administrator
  5. Click Reset to factory defaults and re-run as administrator

Expected behavior

Docker Desktop should open sucessfully and start the Docker engine.

docker version

Client:
 Version:           27.1.1
 API version:       1.46
 Go version:        go1.21.12
 Git commit:        6312585
 Built:             Tue Jul 23 19:57:57 2024
 OS/Arch:           windows/amd64
 Context:           desktop-linux

Server: Docker Desktop 4.33.1 (161083)
 Engine:
  Version:          27.1.1
  API version:      1.46 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:       go1.21.12
  Git commit:       cc13f95
  Built:            Tue Jul 23 19:57:19 2024
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.7.19
  GitCommit:        2bf793ef6dc9a18e00cb12efb64355c2c9d5eb41
 runc:
  Version:          1.7.19
  GitCommit:        v1.1.13-0-g58aa920
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

docker info

Client:
 Version:    27.1.1
 Context:    desktop-linux
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.16.1-desktop.1
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-buildx.exe
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v2.29.1-desktop.1
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-compose.exe
  debug: Get a shell into any image or container (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  0.0.34
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-debug.exe
  desktop: Docker Desktop commands (Alpha) (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.0.14
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-desktop.exe
  dev: Docker Dev Environments (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.1.2
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-dev.exe
  extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.25
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-extension.exe
  feedback: Provide feedback, right in your terminal! (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.0.5
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-feedback.exe
  init: Creates Docker-related starter files for your project (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.3.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-init.exe
  sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc.)
    Version:  0.6.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-sbom.exe
  scout: Docker Scout (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.11.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-scout.exe

Server:
 Containers: 0
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 0
 Images: 1
 Server Version: 27.1.1
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: false
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
 Cgroup Version: 1
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 2bf793ef6dc9a18e00cb12efb64355c2c9d5eb41
 runc version: v1.1.13-0-g58aa920
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: unconfined
 Kernel Version: 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
 Operating System: Docker Desktop
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 8
 Total Memory: 7.605GiB
 Name: docker-desktop
 ID: de97e3b4-3b74-4fd2-8eec-eb673d3f2282
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 HTTP Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 HTTPS Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 No Proxy: hubproxy.docker.internal
 Labels:
  com.docker.desktop.address=npipe://\\.\pipe\docker_cli
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  hubproxy.docker.internal:5555
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_iops_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_iops_device support
WARNING: daemon is not using the default seccomp profile

Diagnostics ID

9EBC4C40-17AA-4288-898A-8E4C44B41BF6/20240829210748

Additional Info

Error msg: starting services: initializing Backend API: listening on \.\pipe\dockerBackendApiServer: open \.\pipe\dockerBackendApiServer: Access is denied.

jacob-morosco avatar Aug 29 '24 21:08 jacob-morosco

Output of $ wsl -v:

WSL version: 2.2.4.0 Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2 WSLg version: 1.0.61 MSRDC version: 1.2.5326 Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore version: 10.0.26091.1-240325-1447.ge-release Windows version: 10.0.22631.4037

jacob-morosco avatar Aug 29 '24 21:08 jacob-morosco

Links to the Docker manuals used are:

  1. https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/
  2. https://docs.docker.com/desktop/troubleshoot/overview/

jacob-morosco avatar Aug 30 '24 16:08 jacob-morosco

20250404102630.zip Same issue for me.

Sitation here is it's a shared machine. Perhaps the scenario is not supported for two users to work on the same machine-wide installation of docker. Does anyone know for sure?

bedalus avatar Apr 04 '25 10:04 bedalus

Same for me. I just did a fresh install of Windows 11. I have two users on this system. I installed docker desktop using one of them, and that works fine. When I go to launch docker desktop using the other user, I get this error. I have tried resetting it to factory settings, but it did nothing.

jevring avatar May 09 '25 10:05 jevring

Solution that worked for me:

  1. Open Windows Task Manager as an administrator
  2. Kill all Docker related processes
  3. Restart Docker Desktop using a normal user

williammadie avatar Jul 04 '25 08:07 williammadie

Solution that worked for me:

  1. Open Windows Task Manager as an administrator
  2. Kill all Docker related processes
  3. Restart Docker Desktop using a normal user

This just runs Docker as a normal user, they are trying to run it with elevated privileges.

kaseychakos avatar Jul 10 '25 15:07 kaseychakos

Solution that worked for me:

  1. Open Windows Task Manager as an administrator
  2. Kill all Docker related processes
  3. Restart Docker Desktop using a normal user

This just runs Docker as a normal user, they are trying to run it with elevated privileges.

This worked for me... It seems that Docker Desktop for Windows doesnt have a good integration yet on multi user environments as it seems impossible to run containers independently for each user available (only one user can take control of dockerd at a time

SirLouen avatar Aug 18 '25 08:08 SirLouen

Same error for me, but i am trying to run windows docker images. So i am not using the wsl backend, but the hyper-v one.

ygerlach avatar Dec 03 '25 08:12 ygerlach