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Error: Failed to start the workspace: "Unknown error"

See original GitHub issue

Description

Unable to create workspace on che/dashboard. Encountering error : Error: Failed to start the workspace: “Unknown error”

Reproduction Steps

Built image from https://github.com/eclipse/che/blob/master/dockerfiles/che/Dockerfile
docker run -e CHE_HOST=x.x.x.x
–name che
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
-v /home/user/che/lib:/home/user/che/lib-copy
-v /home/user/che/workspaces:/home/user/che/workspaces
-v /home/user/che/storage:/home/user/che/storage
eclipse/che-server
Accessed Dashboard and Tried creating workspace (Single Machine + Blank)

OS and version:
arch: ppc64le os: ubuntu:16.04 image build environment: docker container

Diagnostics/Logs:

2019-04-22 09:31:36,154[nio-8080-exec-9]  [ERROR] [o.a.c.c.C.[.[.[/api].[default] 236]  - Servlet.service() for servlet [default] in context with path [/api] threw exception [java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.eclipse.che.infrastructure.docker.client.CLibraryFactory] with root cause
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.eclipse.che.infrastructure.docker.client.CLibraryFactory
        at org.eclipse.che.infrastructure.docker.client.connection.UnixSocketConnection.connect(UnixSocketConnection.java:66)
        at org.eclipse.che.infrastructure.docker.client.connection.UnixSocketConnection.request(UnixSocketConnection.java:49)
        at org.eclipse.che.infrastructure.docker.client.connection.DockerConnection.request(DockerConnection.java:92)
        at org.eclipse.che.infrastructure.docker.client.DockerConnector.listContainers(DockerConnector.java:284)
        at org.eclipse.che.workspace.infrastructure.docker.container.DockerContainers.listNonStoppedContainers(DockerContainers.java:74)
        at org.eclipse.che.workspace.infrastructure.docker.container.DockerContainers.find(DockerContainers.java:47)
        at org.eclipse.che.workspace.infrastructure.docker.DockerRuntimeContext.getRuntime(DockerRuntimeContext.java:84)
        at org.eclipse.che.workspace.infrastructure.docker.DockerRuntimeContext.getRuntime(DockerRuntimeContext.java:38)
        at org.eclipse.che.api.workspace.server.WorkspaceRuntimes.startAsync(WorkspaceRuntimes.java:370)
        at org.eclipse.che.api.workspace.server.WorkspaceManager.startAsync(WorkspaceManager.java:377)
        at org.eclipse.che.api.workspace.server.WorkspaceManager.startWorkspace(WorkspaceManager.java:307)
        at org.eclipse.che.api.workspace.server.WorkspaceService.startById(WorkspaceService.java:349)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.method.DefaultMethodInvoker.invokeMethod(DefaultMethodInvoker.java:140)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.method.DefaultMethodInvoker.invokeMethod(DefaultMethodInvoker.java:60)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.RequestDispatcher.doInvokeResource(RequestDispatcher.java:306)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.RequestDispatcher.invokeSubResourceMethod(RequestDispatcher.java:297)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.RequestDispatcher.dispatch(RequestDispatcher.java:233)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.RequestDispatcher.dispatch(RequestDispatcher.java:128)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.RequestHandlerImpl.handleRequest(RequestHandlerImpl.java:62)
        at org.everrest.core.impl.EverrestProcessor.process(EverrestProcessor.java:120)
        at org.everrest.core.servlet.EverrestServlet.service(EverrestServlet.java:61)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.doServiceImpl(ServletDefinition.java:290)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.doService(ServletDefinition.java:280)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.service(ServletDefinition.java:184)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ManagedServletPipeline.service(ManagedServletPipeline.java:89)
        at org.eclipse.che.api.local.filters.EnvironmentInitializationFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentInitializationFilter.java:64)
        at org.eclipse.che.commons.logback.filter.RequestIdLoggerFilter.doFilter(RequestIdLoggerFilter.java:50)
        at org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter.handleNonCORS(CorsFilter.java:364)
        at org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter.doFilter(CorsFilter.java:170)
        at org.eclipse.che.api.core.cors.CheCorsFilter.doFilter(CheCorsFilter.java:58)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ManagedFilterPipeline.dispatch(ManagedFilterPipeline.java:121)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.GuiceFilter.doFilter(GuiceFilter.java:133)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:198)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:493)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81)
        at ch.qos.logback.access.tomcat.LogbackValve.invoke(LogbackValve.java:256)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:685)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:800)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:806)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1498)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)