docker socket not available after sleep/wake

⚠️ Workaround for this issue ⚠️

If your docker socket (or file mounts) are broken in this way, please quit “Rancher Desktop” and start it again.

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Rancher Desktop Version

1.0.0-beta1

Rancher Desktop K8s Version

1.22.5

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System / Build Version

12.1

What CPU architecture are you using?

arm64 (Apple Silicon)

Linux only: what package format did you use to install Rancher Desktop?

N/A

Windows User Only

No response

Actual Behavior

Client docker on macOS loses the sock connection with the docker agent on Lima VM. It happens after sleep wake process

macOS terminal

:~/ $ docker info                                                                                                                                                                                                               [9:27:08]
Client:
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false

Server:
ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
errors pretty printing info

when I connect to the lima VM and run docker info:

docker info
Client:
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false

Server:
 Containers: 11
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 11
 Images: 77
 Server Version: 20.10.11
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  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 logentries splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 1e5ef943eb76627a6d3b6de8cd1ef6537f393a71
 runc version: b9ee9c6314599f1b4a7f497e1f1f856fe433d3b7
 init version:
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: default
 Kernel Version: 5.10.88-0-virt
 Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.14
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: aarch64
 CPUs: 4
 Total Memory: 5.79GiB
 Name: lima-rancher-desktop
 ID: NRV2:C6GL:E4XF:CK4L:HIZZ:6EM4:3ERM:CCWW:DHGH:7F7F:CTIJ:WUMC
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
 Labels:
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

Steps to Reproduce

1. Select the dockerd engine option
2. Put the macOS on sleep mode for more than 1~ hour
3. Turn it on again and run any docker related command on macOS

Result

/ $ docker info                                                                                                                                                                                                               [9:27:08]
Client:
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false

Server:
ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
errors pretty printing info

Expected Behavior

After awake daemon should be reachable via socket

Additional Information

I need directions regarding which information would be helpful for troubleshooting this. Same behavior foud in the issue #1119

[huukhanh]

I tried to make a symbolic link to file docker.sock in ~$USER/.rd/docker.sock and its work fine. Try this:

sudo ln -s ~$USER/.rd/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock

[jandubois]

Would be better to report this issue on the lima repository?

It is fine here. I already started looking into it, and even reproduced the error once (after 3 days) on my M1 mini, but unfortunately had to reboot it to finish some work for the upcoming release, which is almost done now.

It will be my top priority to look into this problem once 1.1.0 has shipped.