Cannot start container on boot2docker

[Chris Phillipson]

I'm running Windows 7.
I downloaded and installed boot2docker 1.1.1.
I executed boot2docker ssh
I pulled your image with
docker pull

Next is a series of commands and output

docker@boot2docker:/devbox/sts$ docker version
Client version: 1.0.1
Client API version: 1.12
Go version (client): go1.2.1
Git commit (client): 990021a
Server version: 1.0.1
Server API version: 1.12
Go version (server): go1.2.1
Git commit (server): 990021a
docker@boot2docker:/devbox/sts$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE
fans/sts-base latest c09dbe15c9d7 About an hour ago 1.936 GB
centos centos7 1a7dc42f78ba 9 days ago 236.4 MB
centos latest 1a7dc42f78ba 9 days ago 236.4 MB
svendowideit/samba latest 06d5f1237cf3 9 days ago 273.7 MB
ubuntu 12.04 ea7d6801c538 3 weeks ago 127.5 MB
phusion/baseimage latest dabfc8a44cb5 3 weeks ago 421.6 MB
ubuntu latest e54ca5efa2e9 4 weeks ago 276.5 MB
busybox latest a9eb17255234 6 weeks ago 2.433 MB
dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc latest 15b04390c9f1 7 weeks ago 858.9 MB
docker@boot2docker:/devbox/sts$ docker run -t -i -p 6080:6080 15b04390c9f1
2014/07/18 22:58:11 Error response from daemon: Cannot start container 1e7b0c0f66678c3a23117d5c90561ff56ed21e7be9af4edcbdf43545460f613b: /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/1e7b0c0f66678c3a23117d5c90561
ff56ed21e7be9af4edcbdf43545460f613b is not within /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/1e7b0c0f66678c3a23117d5c90561ff56ed21e7be9af4edcbdf43545460f613b
docker@boot2docker:/devbox/sts$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
1e7b0c0f6667 dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc:latest /startup.sh 4 seconds ago sick_bohr
6bd235b0c6ea dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc:latest /startup.sh 21 minutes ago romantic_poincare
44c5bcacd4d5 fans/sts-base:latest /startup.sh /sbin/my About an hour ago hungry_euclid
866aa3d16904 busybox:latest echo test About an hour ago Exited (0) About an hour ago sick_hoover
docker@boot2docker:~/devbox/sts$

Can you explain why I'm getting an error on startup? Is this a bug in boot2docker? Should I even attempt to run docker under boot2docker?

[Doro Wu]

Is the command "docker run -i -t -p 11111 ubuntu:12.04 /bin/bash" successfully?

[Chris Phillipson]

Seems when I installed boot2docker 1.1.1 over an existing 1.0.1 installation things got funky. I completely removed all traces of boot2docker and re-installed 1.1.1. Next I used docker pull to fetch your container from docker hub registry. Finally I tried to start up. This is what I saw...

docker@boot2docker:~$ docker run -i -t -p 6080:6080 dorowu/ubuntu-desktop-lxde-vnc
User: ubuntu Pass: ubuntu
root@209cf4173993:/# ls -la
total 17316
drwxr-xr-x 106 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 106 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jul 21 13:09 .dockerenv
-rwx------ 1 root root 17636373 Jul 21 13:02 .dockerinit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 02:12 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 10 22:12 boot
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 360 Jul 21 13:09 dev
drwxr-xr-x 105 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 home
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:04 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 20:35 lib64
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 20:35 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 10 22:12 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 noVNC
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 20:35 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 174 root root 0 Jul 21 13:09 proc
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 20:36 root
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 02:12 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 20:35 srv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 315 May 30 01:56 startup.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1083 May 30 01:56 supervisord.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1111 Jul 21 13:09 supervisord.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3 Jul 21 13:09 supervisord.pid
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Jul 21 13:09 sys
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:08 usr
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jul 21 13:09 var
root@209cf4173993:/#

Great I thought. Let me try to hit w/ browser from my desktop.

Opened Firefox and browsed to http://127.0.0.1:6080/vnc.html

Nothing!

boot2docker does not make any other port but 22 available.

But, a look here, gave me what I needed...

https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/blob/master/doc/WORKAROUNDS.md

So I Iaunched boot2docker w/

boot2docker ssh -L 6080:localhost:6080

and then I was able to visit http://127.0.0.1:6080/vnc.html, authenticate, and work with container.

Thanks!

(Just a thought... you might want to enhance your instructions to point the above out).

[Deleted user]

Thank you for reporting the solution! 👍 helped a lot!

[Roberto Andrade]

Another way would be to simply use the boot2docker ip instead of your localhost one:

$ open http://$(boot2docker ip):6080/vnc.html

[luckycloud GmbH]

Hi, im trying to "su" to root user, but i dont see where the passwort for root is given! how can i get root access?

[Doro Wu]

Please use sudo. Default password is "ubuntu"

[luckycloud GmbH]

Thanks Works perfect!!

[luckycloud GmbH]

Hi, i want to change the password of the "ubuntu" user and the changes should be persistent after stopping the container. Can I change the default user to another one? I want to mount a drive from the Host, but i can only set a mountpoint by creating a new instance, do you know how i can customise that with a running container?

[Ethan]

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Thanks.

[Ziming_Zhang]

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