Unable to connect to docker.sock file while running dive

[hariprasadpo28]

I have been trying to run dive on some of my images, after running dive ubuntu:latest I am seeing this error:

Image Source: docker://ubuntu:latest Fetching image... (this can take a while for large images) Handler not available locally. Trying to pull 'ubuntu:latest'... latest: Pulling from library/ubuntu Digest: sha256:dfd64a3b4296d8c9b62aa3309984f8620b98d87e47492599ee20739e8eb54fbf Status: Image is up to date for ubuntu:latest docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest cannot fetch image Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

But I am able to use docker without any problems, docker is also running.
OS: MacOS 13.4
Docker engine: v23.0.5

[kfrapin]

Edit 2023-07-10
A better solution is described by @Tantalor93 below
#453 (comment)

Original proposed solution
I had the same problem, but this is not an issue related to dive, this is more related to Docker and how docker.sock seems to be managed on Mac now.

A Docker upgrade on Mac moved the docker.sock from /var/run/ to ~/.docker/run/

An easy fix is:

ln -s ~/.docker/run/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock

If sudo is required:

sudo ln -s ~/.docker/run/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock

Note sure how long this fix can work, but for now, it is doing the job!

[Tantalor93]

If you are using Docker Desktop on Mac, you can enable the option for creating the default Docker socket

[jmbowman]

This looks like a change in Docker Desktop 4.18 to allow installation on macOS without needing admin privileges: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-4-18/ . It still asks for admin privileges, but if you don't grant them then tools like dive won't work until you enable this new setting.

[nigelwtf]

This could be worth adding as a note to the installation steps. I ran into this issue too!

I haven't used my personal computer in quite a long time for programming. My Docker client updated itself to Docker Desktop - and at no point during the upgrade process did it prompt me for a password (and luckily I kind of stumbled onto this fix myself) 😅

[diei]

I get a similar error since I switched from Docker Desktop to colima at my MacBook (Ventura 13.3.1). Dive (0.11.0) can not load a local image. Docker version is 24.0.4.

$>dive a6cfd372bba2
Image Source: docker://a6cfd372bba2
Fetching image... (this can take a while for large images)
Handler not available locally. Trying to pull 'a6cfd372bba2'...
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: pull access denied for a6cfd372bba2, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied
cannot fetch image
exit status 1

[diei]

The post of TG-KK in #397 (comment) helped me.

[williamdes]

For docker rootless: sudo ln -s /run/user/$(id -u)/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock