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error getting credentials - err: exec: "docker-credential-desktop": executable file not found in $PATH
~/.docker/config.json tells Docker to use a credential helper (desktop, osxkeychain, wincred) that isn’t installed or on PATH.
Error response from daemon: Container X is not running
You tried to exec into or interact with a container that has stopped.
Pod status CreateContainerError
The image was pulled, but the container runtime failed to create the container — bad command, missing mount target, or a name/vol…
macOS: zsh: command not found: brew (Homebrew not on PATH on Apple Silicon)
Homebrew is installed in /opt/homebrew on Apple Silicon Macs, which isn’t on PATH until you add its shellenv line.
exec /entrypoint.sh: permission denied (container won't start)
The entrypoint or command isn’t marked executable inside the image, or it’s on a volume mounted noexec.
Cloud Run: The user-provided container failed to start and listen on the port defined provided by the PORT=8080 environment variable
Cloud Run started your container, but nothing listened on $PORT within the startup timeout — the app crashed, listens on another…
Azure Container Registry: unauthorized: authentication required, visit https://aka.ms/acr/authorization (AKS ErrImagePull 401)
Pulling/pushing to ACR wasn’t authenticated — Docker not logged in, or AKS/App Service lacks AcrPull on the registry.
Conflict. The container name "/x" is already in use by container …
A container (running or stopped) already has that name; Docker won’t create a second one with the same name.
exec /docker-entrypoint.sh: no such file or directory (CRLF line endings / missing interpreter)
The entrypoint file exists, but the kernel can’t run it — almost always Windows CRLF line endings in the script, or a shebang poi…
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
A glob like * expanded to more file names than the kernel allows in one command (ARG_MAX), so the command never ran.
Docker container exits immediately (Exited (0) / Exited (1) right after start)
The container started and its main process finished at once, so the container stopped — Docker containers only live as long as PI…
Error response from daemon: You cannot remove a running container. Stop the container before attempting removal or force remove
docker rm refuses to delete a container that is still running.
Two steps away (33)
HTTP 413 Content Too Large (Request Entity Too Large)
The request body is bigger than the server is willing to accept — usually a file upload over the configured limit.
OAuth Error: redirect_uri_mismatch
The redirect URI in your OAuth request doesn’t exactly match one registered for the client in the provider’s console.
WordPress: Error Establishing a Database Connection
WordPress can’t connect to its MySQL/MariaDB database with the credentials in wp-config.php, or the database server is down.
Docker: Bind for 0.0.0.0:80 failed: port is already allocated
Another container or host process already publishes that host port.
ECS task stopped: CannotPullContainerError: pull image manifest has been retried ... / ref pull has been retried
The ECS task couldn’t pull its image — no network route to the registry, missing ECR permissions, or a wrong image tag.
ECS: Essential container in task exited (task keeps stopping)
The main (essential) container stopped, so ECS stopped the whole task and the service keeps replacing it.
Kubernetes: CrashLoopBackOff
The container starts, crashes (or exits), and Kubernetes keeps restarting it with increasing back-off delays.
Kubernetes: CreateContainerConfigError — secret / configmap not found
Kubernetes can’t build the container’s configuration — usually a referenced Secret, ConfigMap or key doesn’t exist in that namesp…
Pod status InvalidImageName: couldn't parse image reference
The image field in the pod spec isn’t a valid image reference, so the kubelet can’t even try to pull it.
bash: command not found
The shell can’t find an executable with that name in any directory on your PATH.
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun
The Xcode Command Line Tools are missing or broken — typical right after a macOS update.
macOS: “App” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
Gatekeeper blocked an app that isn’t properly signed/notarized or was modified after download (quarantine attribute).
npm ERR! code EACCES — permission denied
npm can’t write to a directory — usually global installs into a root-owned folder.
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
The docker CLI can’t talk to the Docker engine — it isn’t running, or your user can’t access the socket.
Linux: Permission denied
Your user (or the service user) lacks read/write/execute permission on a file, directory or one of its parents.
exec /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: exec format error
The container tried to run a binary built for a different CPU architecture (arm64 vs amd64) — or a script with a broken shebang /…
npm ERR! code EROFS — EROFS: read-only file system
npm tried to write to a read-only location (read-only container filesystem, mounted volume, or system path).
Error response from daemon: No such container
The container name or ID you used doesn’t exist on this Docker host — it was removed, has another name, or you’re talking to a di…
Kubernetes: ImagePullBackOff / ErrImagePull
The node can’t pull the container image — wrong name/tag, missing registry credentials, or registry unreachable.
denied: Your authorization token has expired. Reauthenticate and try again. (Amazon ECR)
Docker’s login to Amazon ECR has expired — ECR tokens last 12 hours, so pushes and pulls fail until you log in again.
unauthorized: authentication required (docker push / pull)
The registry needs credentials for this operation and the request had none or had expired ones.
Docker container is unhealthy (health check failing)
The container is running, but its HEALTHCHECK command keeps failing, so Docker (and dependent services) consider it unhealthy.
Docker container keeps restarting (Restarting (1) x seconds ago)
The container crashes on start and its restart policy (always/unless-stopped/on-failure) starts it again in a loop.
systemd: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
systemd couldn’t execute the ExecStart command — the path is wrong, the file isn’t executable, or its interpreter is missing.
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory
A file or directory the program tried to open doesn’t exist at that path.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: config.properties (No such file or directory)
Java couldn’t open the file — wrong path relative to the working directory, missing file, or a classpath resource read as a file.
java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /path/file
An NIO Files operation targeted a path that doesn’t exist.
HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start
IIS/Azure’s ASP.NET Core Module launched your app but it crashed during startup.
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
A static initializer (static block or static field) threw an exception while the class was loading.
Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code
The MySQL/MariaDB service failed to start — the real reason is in the MySQL error log.
docker: invalid reference format (repository name must be lowercase)
Docker couldn’t parse the image name — uppercase letters, spaces, an empty variable, or a misplaced option.
docker-compose: command not found / 'compose' is not a docker command
Your system has only one of the two Compose flavours: the old docker-compose (v1) binary or the newer docker compose (v2) plugin.
the input device is not a TTY
docker run/exec was called with -t (allocate a terminal) in a context with no terminal — CI, cron, a pipe or a script.
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