Error response from daemon: open \\.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified

Question

While I am trying to start with docker on my windows 10 machine it is returning the following error.

ERROR: open \.\pipe\docker_engine_linux: The system cannot find the file specified.

I found when I logon to my computer, the hyper VM could not run docker virtual machine automatically though my docker desktop is running. Once I start docker virtual machine on hyper VM and restart docker once again, it works okay. But this is not a permanent solution. Could I get some help please?

Answer 1

Restarting Docker Desktop for Windows helped me. You can do that by right-click on tray icon and selecting restart.

Answer 2

The same problem with Me. I am writing this command in PowerShell Run As Administrator. Switch Docker from Windows to Linux write the command like this

cd "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker"

./DockerCli.exe -SwitchLinuxEngine

This is the Simple way to solve this.

Answer 3

In my case, the reason for the error was even easier than the main answer ("close and open it again") suggests. Docker Desktop was just not running anymore!

When I hovered over the tray icon, it vanished.

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Further details:

Docker Desktop had crashed, or it was closed because of a forced update. I had this problem after updating Java runtime environment.

When I opened Docker Desktop then, an update ran, and I could not even choose between yes or no, running for at least 5 minutes with the tray icon only showing "Docker Desktop is starting". The menu had crashed as well.