Ddev: too many levels of symbolic links

[ptoseklukas]

Hello,

i update to last ddev 1.14 and i cannot start the project. I run ddev start and after installing i got this error

failed to register layer: error creating overlay mount to /var/lib/docker/overlay2/273f96443d97099ec0c5fce1745b5984a5a52c815e44aaef321b6efe4dfc0c0f/merged: too many levels of symbolic links
Failed to start xxxx: exit status 1

I am trying clean installation and same.

Thanks for answers :)

Windows 10
Docker version: 19.03.8
ddev version: v1.14.0

config.yaml (nothing changed)
name: xxxx
type: wordpress
docroot: web
php_version: "7.3"
webserver_type: nginx-fpm
router_http_port: "80"
router_https_port: "443"
xdebug_enabled: false
additional_hostnames: []
additional_fqdns: []
provider: default
use_dns_when_possible: true

[rfay]

Hi @Ptosek - Something is wrong in your docker installation. I'd recommend

1. ddev poweroff
2. Restart docker
3. docker system prune
4. docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq) (removes all containers)
5. `docker rmi -f $(docker images -q) (removes all images. they'll get re-downloaded)

If that doesn't do the trick, do a docker factory reset, but you'll lose any database volumes you have, so make sure you have db dumps before doing that.

[rfay]

No response from @Ptosek , but I hope you got it fixed. I think the instructions above will get you going. This really doesn't seem to have to do with ddev, although I know it seems to. Happy to continue the conversation here, but closing this for now.

[alanreynosov]

Hi @Ptosek - Something is wrong in your docker installation. I'd recommend

1. ddev poweroff
2. Restart docker
3. docker system prune
4. docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq) (removes all containers)
5. `docker rmi -f $(docker images -q) (removes all images. they'll get re-downloaded)

If that doesn't do the trick, do a docker factory reset, but you'll lose any database volumes you have, so make sure you have db dumps before doing that.

This worked for me, thank you

[rfay]

@paradojo Did you just try all those things or did one specifically solve it?

[marinef75]

worked for me 👍

[git1362]

works for me 👍