Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:/var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Question

I have been trying to run scarpy splash on my server but i can't seem to run docker 

These are all commands i used :

docker run -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash

sudo docker run -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash

sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)

sudo docker run -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash

newgrp docker

sudo docker run -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash

reboot

sudo docker run -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash

docker run -p 8050:8050 scrapinghub/splash

But none of the above commands have worked & Restarting the server didn't help either.

Answer 1

Well you can just try starting it using the below command :

systemctl start docker

If that doesn't work maybe try running it as ' sudo docker '.   You may need root access for /var/run/docker.sock .

Or with the below command you will be able to give access to user to use docker.

gpasswd -a $USER docker

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