December 4, 2025Dec 4 I recently got rid of my Windows VM which was running off of a SATA SSD drive. I removed the drive after I safely shutdown my server. After booting it up, my Docker tab now says "Docker Service failed to start" and VMS tab says "Libvirt Service failed to start". The VMS tab I don't care about cause I am no longer using VMs on my Unraid Server.I did not want to act out or attempt anything that's why I'm here asking the best first steps to resolve and restore my Docker containers.unraid-tower-diagnostics-20251204-0034.zip
December 4, 2025Dec 4 Community Expert Dec 2 23:54:48 Unraid-Tower kernel: BTRFS info (device nvme1n1p1): bdev /dev/nvme0n1p1 errs: wr 155265, rd 1869, flush 1211, corrupt 0, gen 0One of the pool devices dropped offline in the past, scrub the pool and post the results from the GUI.
December 4, 2025Dec 4 Author Went into my first NVMe drive and clicked Scrub. These are the results below
December 4, 2025Dec 4 Community Expert Solution All errors were corrected, which is good. The Docker image needs to be recreated.https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/troubleshooting/common-issues/docker-troubleshooting/#re-creating-the-docker-image-fileThen:https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/troubleshooting/common-issues/docker-troubleshooting/#reinstalling-docker-applicationsAlso see below if you have any custom docker networks:https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/troubleshooting/common-issues/docker-troubleshooting/#restoring-docker-custom-networksLibvirt was also showing issues. Assuming it still doesn't work ,do you have a backup? That one is not so easy to recreate as Docker.
December 5, 2025Dec 5 Author Completed the abovementioned steps. Docker image recreated, Docker containers reinstalled, and it works!As for Libvert, it still doesn't work. I don't have a backup and that's fine by me because I plan to start from scratch to create new VMs.Would I be setting "Enable VMs" to No, click Apply, check off the "Delete Image File" box for Libvert, click Apply, and then setting "Enable VMs" to Yes", click Apply?
December 6, 2025Dec 6 Community Expert 10 hours ago, Nads said:Would I be setting "Enable VMs" to No, click Apply, check off the "Delete Image File" box for Libvert, click Apply, and then setting "Enable VMs" to Yes", click Apply?That shoudl do it.
December 6, 2025Dec 6 Author Thank you so much for all your help and everything you do. You're a gem! Edited December 6, 2025Dec 6 by Nads
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