AUFS driver not loaded / found on kernel 4.* branch

Question

I've tried upgrading my kernel from 3.19.0-22 to any of the kernel 4.* releases in Ubuntu 15.04 but upon rebooting I've found that docker doesn't work anymore.

Sep 19 12:37:14 sniper docker[1098]:
time="2015-09-19T12:37:14.116981936+02:00" level=error
msg="[graphdriver] prior storage driver \"aufs\" failed: driver not supported"
Sep 19 12:37:14 sniper docker[1098]:
time="2015-09-19T12:37:14.117058280+02:00" level=fatal msg="Error
starting daemon: error initializing graphdriver: driver not supported"

My question is:

Am I missing something or am I supposed to do something for this to work?

Or is it something in docker that I can change so that it works again?

Thank you for your time and help.

Answer 1

After installing linux kernel 4.2.1 for ubuntu (from ppa) docker stopped to function properly.

To get it back working I did:

After stopping docker service,

sudo apt-get remove --purge docker-engine

then I got rid of any former container and images that were still in aufs in /var/lib/docker

mv /var/lib/docker /var/lib/docker.old

then I reinstalled docker from the script docker is hosting online:

wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

docker instantly worked after reinstallation

I could probably copy and paste data from the /var/lib/docker.old so as to get containers and images, but that was not worth it in my case, so I didn't even try, but you migth consider to do this if you want to retrieve former images and containers.

Answer 2

I was have the same issue,and this solve the probelm
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/aufs
and i suggest to use this command to install Docker
curl https://get.docker.com | bash
if this not solve the probelm there is many soultion in this :
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/14026