After dietpi update docker is not starting

Troubleshooting
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Required Information

  • DietPi version |
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=16
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=3
    G_GITBRANCH=‘master’
    G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’
    G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]=‘applied’
  • Distro version | bookworm 0
  • Kernel version | Linux sdcon2 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.34-1+rpt1~bookworm (2025-06-26) aarch64 GNU/Linux
  • Architecture | arm64
  • SBC model | RPi 4 Model B (aarch64)
  • Power supply used | Raspberry standard power supply

Additional Information (if applicable)

Docker Engine - Community
Version: 28.3.3

/etc/docker/daemon.json
{
“data-root”: “/mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data”,
“log-driver”: “journald”,
“log-level”: “warn”,
“debug”: false
}

Actual behaviour

Hi all,

after todays DietPi update Docker is not starting.
I found a similar error description here: 15826
Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to find a solution to my problem.
Hope someone can help.

Extra details

Error Log:
Aug 25 19:30:21 sdcon2 systemd[1]: docker.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Aug 25 19:30:21 sdcon2 systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

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share the service log

journalctl -u docker -u containerd
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service_log-2025-08-25.txt (1,0 MB)

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can you try to start docker manually in debug mod? Maybe this is giving some more information

dockerd --debug
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funny and magic… - today I’ve rebooted the machine as the days before and docker is starting. :grinning_face:

root@sdcon2:~# docker info
Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 28.3.3
Context: default
Debug Mode: false

Server:
Containers: 2
Running: 1
Paused: 0
Stopped: 1
Images: 2
Server Version: 28.3.3
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Using metacopy: false
Native Overlay Diff: true
userxattr: false
Logging Driver: journald
Cgroup Driver: systemd
Cgroup Version: 2
…
Hope it will continue.

THX Joulinar for your support

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… dockerd --debug
is saying:
root@sdcon2:~# dockerd --debug
unable to configure the Docker daemon with file /etc/docker/daemon.json: the following directives are specified both as a flag and in the configuration file: debug: (from flag: true, from file: false)