Job "docker.service/start" failed with result 'dependency' when using an custom insecure registry
Issue
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When trying to start the
docker.servicein an OCP master node, it fails with the following error message:# systemctl start docker A dependency job for docker.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. - 
The
registries.servicestatus has the following error message:# systemctl status registries [...] Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com systemd[1]: Starting SystemWide Container Registries... Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com registries[43156]: Unable to load and parse /etc/containers/registries.conf Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com registries[43156]: . Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com systemd[1]: registries.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start SystemWide Container Registries. Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com systemd[1]: Unit registries.service entered failed state. Feb 14 09:20:35 ocpmaster.example.com systemd[1]: registries.service failed. 
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
- 3.9
 
 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7.x
 
 
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