Docker Service failed to start - Garbage Collection Failed

[ExtremeToast]

Hi,

 

I restarted my server today, and after it booted back up the Docker service will not start.

 

The docker service is reporting 100% memory usage on the dashboard. 

 

 

I downloaded the diagnostic logs and I can see the following error message from docker.txt log

 

time="2021-08-28T18:53:25.369834801+12:00" level=error msg="garbage collection failed" error="write /var/lib/docker/containerd/daemon/io.containerd.metadata.v1.bolt/meta.db: no space left on device"
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x10 pc=0x9e7605]

 

Which I suspect is what is causing the docker service to start.

 

What should I try to resolve this?

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, ExtremeToast said:

I downloaded the diagnostic logs

Posting them might help see what the problem is.

[BRiT]

I think your docker.img file is full. This is likely a sign that you have a docker misconfigured program somewhere and it is writing data inside the img file. There's a FAQ entry on this.