Docker: Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

Question

On Linux Mint 17.1 x86_64 with kernel 3.13.0-48-generic and OpenSSL version 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.11; whenever I try to execute any docker command (like docker login or <

Answer 1

Ran into the same problem this morning. You may just want to do service docker start. It works for centos (Could work for all), and its one of those small nagging things i forget all the time.

Technically when you first install a service such as docker or httpd (apache) it needs actually be started otherwise you will get that error. You can also see the status's of other services by doing service service_name statusbut again, that's how it is for my centos 7.