I had earlier followed https://docs.docker.com/installation/rhel/ to install docker on rhel6.5. This used to work till today, till I decided to run "yum update" and upgraded to docker1.3.
Now, /etc/init.d/docker start fails.
-bash-4.1$ sudo /etc/init.d/docker status
docker dead but pid file exists
Contents of /var/log/docker:
-bash-4.1$ more /var/log/docker
\nSun Nov 30 23:29:14 IST 2014\n
2014/11/30 23:29:14 docker daemon: 1.3.1 c78088f/1.3.1; execdriver: native; grap
hdriver:
[dd907331] +job serveapi(unix:///var/run/docker.sock)
[info] WARNING: You are running linux kernel version 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64, whic
h might be unstable running docker. Please upgrade your kernel to 3.8.0.
/usr/bin/docker: relocation error: /usr/bin/docker: symbol dm_task_get_info_with
_deferred_remove, version Base not defined in file libdevmapper.so.1.02 with lin
k time reference
I don't have an option to upgrade to rhel7 yet, and have already tried to
- yum downgrade - but yum list doesn't list the older version anymore
- compile the older docker source, but docker doesn't let you build a binary anymore without the docker binary installed :(
Answer
/usr/bin/docker: relocation error: /usr/bin/docker: symbol dm_task_get_info_with_deferred_remove, version Base not defined in file libdevmapper.so.1.02 with link time reference
I ran into this at work this week (also on RHEL6.5). I believe the lib-device-mapper that you have isn't exporting a symbol ("Base") that Docker needs. I solved this by upgrading lib-device-mapper to version 1.02.90.
You may have to enable the public_ol6_latest repo in order to get this package.
sudo yum-config-manager --enable public_ol6_latest
And then install the package:
sudo yum install device-mapper-event-libs