QUESTION :
I have run through StackOverflow and other questions / docs – including the official ones and still have not been able to start docker. Given the latest info here are a couple of options tried:
$ docker daemon
`docker daemon` is not supported on Darwin. Please run `dockerd` directly
16:20:54/Applications $dockerd
-bash: dockerd: command not found
docker-machine also surfaces as an option but that is gone for some time.
So what is the canonical way to start the docker daemon? If it matters I am on Sierra : and the docker is the latest downloaded today 12/12/17.
$docker version
Client:
Version: 17.11.0-ce
API version: 1.34
Go version: go1.9.2
Git commit: 1caf76c
Built: unknown-buildtime
OS/Arch: darwin/amd64
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
It is also worrisome that the URI referred to starts with unix. Is there some preparation and/or configuration step(s) I missed?
ANSWER :
Just try open --background -a Docker
I do not have the whale either.
I had to restart Docker this morning and used this:
/Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/Docker