Description
Description of the issue
docker login
error getting credentials - err: exit status 1, out:Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
This error appears on a fresh Ubuntu Server 18.04 install. It has virtually nothing installed except docker and docker-compose. This error only occurs when docker-compose is installed.
Typing sudo apt remove docker-compose
clears the error. Login now occurs using the normal docker prompt.
Context information (for bug reports)
Output of "docker-compose version"
docker-compose version 1.17.1, build unknown
docker-py version: 2.5.1
CPython version: 2.7.15rc1
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.0g 2 Nov 2017
Output of "docker version"
Client:
Version: 17.12.1-ce
API version: 1.35
Go version: go1.10.1
Git commit: 7390fc6
Built: Wed Apr 18 01:23:11 2018
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Server:
Engine:
Version: 17.12.1-ce
API version: 1.35 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.10.1
Git commit: 7390fc6
Built: Wed Feb 28 17:46:05 2018
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
Output of "docker-compose config"
ubuntu@:~$ docker-compose config
ERROR:
Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any
parent. Are you in the right directory?
Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml
Steps to reproduce the issue
sudo apt install docker
sudo apt install docker-compose
docker login
Observed result
error getting credentials - err: exit status 1, out:
Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
Expected result
The normal docker login prompt.
Stacktrace / full error message
(if applicable)
Additional information
OS version / distribution, docker-compose
install method, etc.
Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-1010-aws x86_64)
This machine was built using Amazon AWS's Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 AMI. It has virtually nothing installed on it, except for docker, docker-compose and sshd.
Activity
shin- commentedon Jun 18, 2018
Looks like a bug with the Ubuntu package, which is not owned by us. Additionally, the version the package installs (1.17.1) is no longer supported.
Please follow the official install instructions instead: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
tuddman commentedon Jun 24, 2018
adding that: following the official install instructions does not work when working on ARM platform (RPi)
which can't find anything when it's apart of the cURL command to download the latest :/
any word on if/when ARM boards might be supported directly?
lucafallabrino commentedon Jun 28, 2018
I'm having the same issue woth Ubuntu18.04 server. I have tried with
but I keep getting
Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
Installed packages version:
$ docker --version
Docker version 18.03.1-ce, build 9ee9f40
$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.21.2, build a133471
shin- commentedon Jun 28, 2018
@tuddman We don't provide a build for arm architectures, but you can install the latest version using
pip
.@lucafallabrino That's a completely unrelated issue. You're trying to use the secretservice credential helper on a server without X11, which isn't going to work. Use
docker-credentials-pass
on servers instead.kiliankoe commentedon Jul 3, 2018
I'm having the same (or a similar) issue, running
docker login
failing with the error messageCannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
. Having stumbled across docker/docker-credential-helpers#60 it seems as ifgolang-docker-credential-helpers
causes the issue here. Temporarily uninstalling docker-compose including the package above allowed me to rundocker login
to authenticate with my docker registry.kinkerl commentedon Jul 24, 2018
hi, why is the issue closed? the workaround from @kiliankoe works but it is still a problem on a new ubuntu 18.04 installation.
shin- commentedon Jul 24, 2018
Closed because not a Compose issue: #6023 (comment)
mullenba commentedon Aug 26, 2018
It's very much an issue. Fresh install of 18.04, installed docker-compose through pip. Exact same issue.
prg3 commentedon Aug 29, 2018
I found that if you remove the golang-docker-credential-helpers package after switching to docker-ce and not the bundled docker package in ubuntu 18.04, this problem is resolved.
chriswue commentedon Sep 10, 2018
Since this is a bug in the Ubuntu packaging for server it needs to be fixed there but in the meantime a work-around without having to uninstall docker-compose temporarily or having to switch to the docker repos instead you can make it use
pass
instead. This is what I did:This generates a you a gpg2 key, After that's done you can list it with
Copy the key id (from the line labelled
[uid]
) and doAfter that
docker login
worked fine since it defaults to usepass
and only tries to fallback tosecretservice
if it can't find it.secretservice
seems to have an X11 dependency which isn't present on a basic server install.Side effect is that you get a somewhat more secure credentials store or on your server instead of a base64 encoded json file.
tomaszdudek7 commentedon Sep 10, 2018
This happened to me on freshly installed
Docker version 18.06.1-ce, build e68fc7a
on Ubuntu 18.04 provided by Azure VM.@prg3 solution (which is running
apt-get purge docker-credential-pass
) solved the issue - I can nowaz acr login --name <registry>
successfully.fredbcode commentedon Sep 25, 2018
I added a bug report here, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-github-docker-docker-credential-helpers/+bug/1794307
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