Unable to start any Docker containers with an error of 'var/lib/docker/init/dockerinit permission denied'
Issue
- Installed or upgraded Docker and cannot start any containers.
- Any
docker runcommand results in an error similar to:
FATA[0000] Error response from daemon: Cannot start container e81ef334f3024d1cb4f5f5c751b873b632b141cc3b23846261986321aeba87e9: fork/exec /var/lib/docker/init/dockerinit-1.5.0-dev: permission denied
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Docker
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