Why docker pull of microsoft/windowsservercore fails with the message "unknown blob" ?

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Issue

  • Why docker pull of microsoft/windowsservercore fails with the message "unknown blob" ?
  • docker daemon fails to pull microsoft/windowsservercore and microsoft/dotnet-framework container images. Console messages
[root@dXXX ~]# docker pull microsoft/windowsservercore
+Using default tag: latest
Trying to pull repository docker.io/microsoft/windowsservercore ... 
sha256:34a0199e1f8c4c978d08e5a4e67af961752e41212b7bde9c1ea570ee29dcff2c: Pulling from docker.io/microsoft/windowsservercore
3889bb8d808b: Retrying in 1 second 
3430754e4d17: Downloading 
Trying to pull repository registry.access.redhat.com/microsoft/windowsservercore ... 
Trying to pull repository docker.io/microsoft/windowsservercore ... 
sha256:34a0199e1f8c4c978d08e5a4e67af961752e41212b7bde9c1ea570ee29dcff2c: Pulling from docker.io/microsoft/windowsservercore
3889bb8d808b: Retrying in 1 second 
3430754e4d17: Downloading 
unknown blob

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Atomic Host 7.3
  • docker-1.12.5-14.el7.x86_64

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