Mac M1 Docker Desktop no longer launches

[chanisef]

I’ve been using Docker Desktop on my Mac M1 for over a year without trouble and just today it seems to have stopped working. It may have coincided with an update.

When trying to open Docker Desktop by double clicking the Docker App icon, it just doesn’t open (and no error message is displayed - it seems to fail silently). When I try to start it up via docker-compose on the cli, the below exceptions are thrown. Could anyone please advise next course of action?

Many thanks.

manachi@macmone lamp % docker-compose up -d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 670, in urlopen
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1255, in request
  File "http/client.py", line 1301, in _send_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1250, in endheaders
  File "http/client.py", line 1010, in _send_output
  File "http/client.py", line 950, in send
  File "docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 43, in connect
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "requests/adapters.py", line 439, in send

File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 726, in urlopen

File "urllib3/util/retry.py", line 410, in increment

File "urllib3/packages/six.py", line 734, in reraise

File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 670, in urlopen

File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request

File "http/client.py", line 1255, in request

File "http/client.py", line 1301, in _send_request

File "http/client.py", line 1250, in endheaders

File "http/client.py", line 1010, in _send_output

File "http/client.py", line 950, in send

File "docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 43, in connect

urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "docker/api/client.py", line 214, in _retrieve_server_version

File "docker/api/daemon.py", line 181, in version

File "docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner

File "docker/api/client.py", line 237, in _get

File "requests/sessions.py", line 543, in get

File "requests/sessions.py", line 530, in request

File "requests/sessions.py", line 643, in send

File "requests/adapters.py", line 498, in send

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "docker-compose", line 3, in 

File "compose/cli/main.py", line 81, in main

File "compose/cli/main.py", line 200, in perform_command

File "compose/cli/command.py", line 60, in project_from_options

File "compose/cli/command.py", line 152, in get_project

File "compose/cli/docker_client.py", line 41, in get_client

File "compose/cli/docker_client.py", line 170, in docker_client

File "docker/api/client.py", line 197, in init

File "docker/api/client.py", line 221, in _retrieve_server_version

docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))

[767] Failed to execute script docker-compose

[guilherme]

It turns out after restarting my computer again, there was a prompt requesting escalated admin privileges and then agreeing to new license terms. I didn't seem to see this the last 2 reboots. After both those steps, it's now working again as expected.