Verified diagnostic signature
The Docker client cannot reach the selected daemon or context.
Match output from docker, understand the likely cause, then continue with sourced, read-only checks.
- Confidence
- high
- Platforms
- linux · macos · windows
- Verified
- 2026-07-24
Recognized output
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Likely causes
What usually produces this signal
- Daemon stopped
- Wrong context
- Socket access failure
- Desktop VM unavailable
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