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[Bug]: DOCKER_HOST unix:///var/run/docker.sock is not listening

See original GitHub issue

Module

Core

Testcontainers version

1.17.5

Using the latest Testcontainers version?

Yes

Host OS

Linux

Host Arch

x86

Docker version

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Cloud integration: v1.0.29
 Version:           20.10.21
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.18.7
 Git commit:        baeda1f
 Built:             Tue Oct 25 18:01:58 2022
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           desktop-linux
 Experimental:      true

Server: Docker Desktop 4.14.0 (91374)
 Engine:
  Version:          20.10.21
  API version:      1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.18.7
  Git commit:       3056208
  Built:            Tue Oct 25 18:00:19 2022
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.6.9
  GitCommit:        1c90a442489720eec95342e1789ee8a5e1b9536f
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.4
  GitCommit:        v1.1.4-0-g5fd4c4d
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

What happened?

I’m getting this error DOCKER_HOST unix:///var/run/docker.sock is not listening whenever I try to run the tests. I can run normal docker commands like docker ps and docker-compose up without any issue. I also checked /var/run/docker.sock and it exists:

ls -la /var/run/ | grep docker
srw-rw----  1 root     docker        0 лис 11 10:03 docker.sock

Relevant log output

2022-11-11T13:13:16.828GMT+02:00 INFO  o.t.d.DockerClientProviderStrategy  Loaded org.testcontainers.dockerclient.UnixSocketClientProviderStrategy from ~/.testcontainers.properties, will try it first
2022-11-11T13:13:16.856GMT+02:00 WARN  o.t.d.DockerClientProviderStrategy  DOCKER_HOST unix:///var/run/docker.sock is not listening
2022-11-11T13:13:16.863GMT+02:00 INFO  o.t.d.DockerMachineClientProviderStrategy  docker-machine executable was not found on PATH ([/home/serg/.sdkman/candidates/scala/current/bin, /home/serg/.sdkman/candidates/sbt/current/bin, /home/serg/.sdkman/candidates/java/current/bin, /home/serg/anaconda3/bin, /home/serg/anaconda3/condabin, /home/serg/.cargo/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /bin, /usr/games, /usr/local/games, /snap/bin, /home/serg/.local/bin, /home/serg/cqlsh-6.8.5/bin, /home/serg/app/terraform, /home/serg/app/Obsidian, /home/serg/app/deadbeef-1.8.7, /home/serg/app, /home/serg/.cache/scalacli/local-repo/bin/scala-cli, /home/serg/docker_compose])
2022-11-11T13:13:16.864GMT+02:00 ERROR o.t.d.DockerClientProviderStrategy  Could not find a valid Docker environment. Please check configuration. Attempted configurations were:
As no valid configuration was found, execution cannot continue.