Error in Gitlab-CI pipeline with docker executor

Question

I´m facing the following problem inside my gitlab-ci pipeline:

`ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory`

The full log is: Running with gitlab-runner 10.5.0 (80b03db9) on gitlab-runner-small c9dfa23d Using Docker executor with image node:6 ... Starting service mysql:latest ... Pulling docker image mysql:latest ... ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Will be retried in 3s ... Using Docker executor with image node:6 ... Starting service mysql:latest ... Pulling docker image mysql:latest ... ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Will be retried in 3s ... Using Docker executor with image node:6 ... Starting service mysql:latest ... Pulling docker image mysql:latest ... ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Will be retried in 3s ... ERROR: Job failed (system failure): Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Running with gitlab-runner 10.5.0 (80b03db9) on gitlab-runner-small c9dfa23d Using Docker executor with image node:6 ... Starting service mysql:latest ... Pulling docker image mysql:latest ... ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Will be retried in 3s ... Using Docker executor with image node:6 ... Starting service mysql:latest ... Pulling docker image mysql:latest ... ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Will be retried in 3s ... Using Docker executor with image node:6 ... Starting service mysql:latest ... Pulling docker image mysql:latest ... ERROR: Preparation failed: Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory Will be retried in 3s ... ERROR: Job failed (system failure): Error response from daemon: stat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ce84c4ec94ce342dea27ba2d8f6d419e96c952442020da66e3d0062d22a37c35: no such file or directory

Any ideas how to solve?

The problem occurs since I deleted entrys of /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ because the disk of the system was full and this folder tooks 65% of the space.

Answer 1

This corrupted your Docker storage. Completely remove (purge) Docker and re-install to see if this fixes the issue.