Docker install via Snap on WSL internal error, cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnixProcessIdUnknown"

Question

Running a Bazel rule container_run_and_commit that throws the following error.

internal error, please report: running "docker" failed: cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnixProcessIdUnknown": [Process with ID 8 does not exist.]

More details documented here Bazel docker container image not copying file

Not sure how this can be corrected.

Does the number after ID change if you try several times, or is it always 8? — Brian Silverman, Oct 26 '21 at 17:29
always 8. I ended up uninstalling snap docker and replaced with windows docker desktop and it is working better. — a11hard, Oct 26 '21 at 18:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '21 at 12:47

The solution is to not use the snap install of docker and instead the Docker desktop with WSL2 install on.

Note that in WSL the ~/.docker/config.json will show creds as desktop.exe. This works fine with the docker cli but better to change desktop.exe to "" and docker login to store credentials natively if other tools are using docker. In my case that is Bazel.

Docker install via Snap on WSL internal error, cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnixProcessIdUnknown"

1 Answers1