Docker ERROR: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF

Question

I needed space and executed: docker rmi $(docker images -f "dangling=true" -q)

Since then I can't with docker-compose: docker-compose build, I get the error: ERROR: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF.

I tried to remove all images, reinstall docker, but nothing will do: always the same error, after quite some time.

I built on another system and it worked, which suggests that this is a wrong-state issue.

Any idea what I should clean?

Using:

▶ docker version Client:  Version:      17.03.0-ce  API version:  1.24 (downgraded from 1.26)  Go version:   go1.7.5  Git commit:   3a232c8  Built:        Tue Feb 28 08:01:32 2017  OS/Arch:      linux/amd64  Server:  Version:      1.12.6  API version:  1.24 (minimum version )  Go version:   go1.6.2  Git commit:   78d1802  Built:        Tue Jan 31 23:35:14 2017  OS/Arch:      linux/amd64  Experimental: false  ▶ docker-compose version docker-compose version 1.11.2, build dfed245 docker-py version: 2.1.0 CPython version: 2.7.13 OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1t  3 May 2016 

Answer 1

I had the same issue and the approved answer didn't work for me.

Turns out I had a file with permissions which didn't allow the user running docker-compose to read it. After removing the file everything was OK