ERROR: readlink /var/lib/docker/overlay2: invalid argument

Question

This morning I was getting this error when executing docker-compose up

> docker-compose up
ERROR: readlink /var/lib/docker/overlay2: invalid argument

Answer 1

我认为更简单的方法是删除所有缓存和容器并再次拉取它们。

docker system prune --all
docker volume prune 
docker-compose up

我认为这将解决错误。

Answer 2

The problem was that one or more image where corrupted.

I had to start running my images one by one with docker-compose up <service 1> <service 2>... until I found the broken one was the backoffice

Then I rebuilded that image with docker-compose build --no-cache <broken service> and finally everything started working nicely again.