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Cannot start Docker on Plesk server: [graphdriver] prior storage driver aufs failed: driver not supported

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Renan Moreira
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Plesk for Linux kb: bug ABT: Group B

Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux

Symptoms

  • Dist-upgrade was performed from Debian 8 to 9.

  • Docker containers cannot be started anymore. One of the following errors can be seen on the Plesk interface:

    PLESK_ERROR: Error: Docker service is not available: Connection refused

    PLESK_ERROR: The Docker service is unavailable: No such file or directory

  • Docker daemon fails to start:

    # docker
    <...>
    ERRO[2019-06-01T10:54:16.728849955+02:00] AUFS was not found in /proc/filesystems storage-driver=aufs
    ERRO[2019-06-01T10:54:16.728884634+02:00] [graphdriver] prior storage driver aufs failed: driver not supported
    Error starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: driver not supported

  • During a Plesk update the following error appears in /var/log/plesk/install/autoinstaller3.log:

    CONFIG_TEXT: Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status docker.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript docker, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package docker-ce (--configure): Errors were encountered while processing: docker-ce E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Cause

This is a Docker extension bug with ID #EXTDOCKER-53 that is planned to be fixed in future updates of the Docker extension.

Resolution

Apply the following workaround:

1 . Connect to the server via SSH.

  1. Install necessary Docker packages:

# apt-get install linux-headers-amd64 aufs-dkms

  1. Start the Docker service:

# systemctl start docker

If Docker does not start after that it may be required to call the following commands and start the docker.service again:

  • # dkms autoinstall aufs modprobe aufs

If dkms autoinstall aufs fails with "Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 4.9.0-XX-amd64 cannot be found." (where XX can be 13) install the required package and start Docker:

  • # apt-get install linux-headers-4.9.0-13-amd64

    # systemctl start docker.service

In case the first workaround doesn't work.
Workaround 2

  1. Connect to the server via SSH.

  2. Move the /var/lib/docker/aufs directory to a different location:

    # mv /var/lib/docker/aufs /root

    Warning: The containers will be removed.

  3. Start the Docker daemon:

    # systemctl start docker

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