Docker container runtime fails to start with 'Base Device UUID and Filesystem verification failed'
Issue
- The
docker
service will not start - The journal for
docker.service
provides this failure:
Aug 15 09:05:21 example.com dockerd-current[4214]: time="2017-08-15T09:05:21.881789151-06:00" level=fatal msg="Error starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: devmapper: Base Device UUID and Filesystem verification failed: devicemapper: Error running deviceCreate (ActivateDevice) dm_task_run failed"
Aug 15 09:05:21 example.com systemd[1]: docker.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 15 09:05:21 example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine.
Aug 15 09:05:21 example.com systemd[1]: Unit docker.service entered failed state.
Aug 15 09:05:21 example.com systemd[1]: docker.service failed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
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