GX10 first run - docker failed to load

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Hello everyone.

I just turned on my ASUS GX10 for the first time. The installation and update seem okay. I’m connected using Nvidia Sync. I’m following the playbook to learn how this computer works. At this playbook Open WebUI with Ollama | DGX Spark when running the

“docker ps”

command line I get a failure :

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

using this command :

systemctl status docker

I get × docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d
└─docker-override.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2025-11-30 12:52:42 CET; 14min ago
TriggeredBy: × docker.socket
Docs: https://docs.docker.com
Process: 4050 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 4050 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 176ms

nov. 30 12:52:42 gx10-XXX systemd[1]: docker.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
nov. 30 12:52:42 gx10-XXX systemd[1]: docker.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
nov. 30 12:52:42 gx10-XXX systemd[1]: docker.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
nov. 30 12:52:42 gx10-XXX systemd[1]: Failed to start docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine.

I don’t know if it’s related but i have :

dpkg -l|grep nvidia-driver
ii nvidia-driver-580-open 580.95.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 arm64 NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage

and

apt list --installed nvidia-driver*-open -a
En train de lister… Fait
nvidia-driver-580-open/inconnu 580.105.08-0ubuntu1 arm64
nvidia-driver-580-open/inconnu 580.95.05-0ubuntu1 arm64
nvidia-driver-580-open/noble,noble-updates,noble-security,now 580.95.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 arm64 [installé]
nvidia-driver-580-open/inconnu 580.82.07-0ubuntu1 arm64
nvidia-driver-580-open/inconnu 580.65.06-0ubuntu1 arm64

Does someone can help me ?

(all upgrade was done)

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Looks like something I saw before.

Confirm it’s the BuildKit bug (optional but nice to check)

sudo journalctl -u docker.service -n 50 --no-pager

If you see something like: error initializing buildkit: error creating buildkit instance: invalid database, then you’ve hit the same GX10 issue as in the NVIDIA forums.

Even if you don’t check this, the fix below is safe on a fresh machine.

Run these commands:

sudo systemctl stop docker

sudo systemctl disable docker

sudo mv /var/lib/docker/buildkit /var/lib/docker/buildkit-bad

sudo systemctl enable docker

sudo systemctl start docker

Verify with: sudo docker ps

If sudo docker ps works but docker ps without sudo gives a permission error, add your user to the docker group:

sudo gpasswd -a "$USER" docker
newgrp docker
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Thank you so much, Raphael! You solved my problem!

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You’re welcome Mathieu. Glad to help!

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