So I was working on adding an insecure local registry to push images to and I managed to bomb my local docker installation.
The Docker desktop app wouldn't pull up at all and I couldn't find any logs or even find docker running with something like
ps aux | grep docker
And I kept getting this error;
$ docker ps
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
So after enough googling, I found the place the logs were stored was around ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/log/, it was this log specifically that lead me to the right place:
cat ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/log/vm/docker.log
This showed:
...
2021-12-12T16:45:46Z docker time="2021-12-12T16:45:46Z" level=error msg="(5c94f517) 0ff224fd-DockerdPKG C<-S a2f49a7f-VMAPI GET /engine/daemon.json (9.946583ms): while parsing JSON from /Users/justin/.docker/daemon.json: invalid character '\"' after object key:value pair"
...
Ah! I made a typo when updated my daemon.json to allow an insecure repository! After patching that up, I needed a way to restart docker:
killall Docker && open /Applications/Docker.app
After that, it was all ready to go! Hopefully it helps you track down any issues for you!
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