Troubleshooting issues with the Datahub CLI and local docker setup

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Original Slack Thread

morning all, I ran into a problem with the <https://datahubproject.io/docs/quickstart|quickstart instructions>, went off to github to see if it was a common issue, and saw that this slack existed. is this the right place to ask for help? or maybe I should head over to <#C029A3M079U|troubleshoot> ? (I can provide more details of the issue, but I want to find the right place first!)

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I have a similar problem to <Issues · datahub-project/datahub · GitHub issue raised two weeks ago>, which I see was fixed - a python error when I run datahub version (or any other datahub cli command, just after I’ve run <DataHub Quickstart Guide | DataHub first few poetry commands in the “Install the Datahub CLI” section>

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ah, on further digging I think maybe that issue is fixed but not released?

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now I realised this, I’ve resolved it by manually downgrading pydantic to <2.0 (pip install "pydantic&lt;2.0" ) - in case it helps the next person to stumble across this :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’m having some other issues with the quickstart process, so I’m still interested in whether <#C029A3M079U|troubleshoot> or here is the right place for questions.

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Hey Kyle- this is the right place for help.

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What are your other issues?

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the current problem I have I think is related to my local docker setup - though I think the error message could be misleading

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I looked at the source, and I believe it’s this method that’s failing: https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/62f27897241516ec7aac4a809ef340fc343aa8b1/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/cli/docker_check.py#L56-L88

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and the message returned to the user in this case is:
> Docker doesn’t seem to be running. Did you start it?

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but docker is certainly running (I’m on ubuntu and various docker commands do respond to me) - but docker.from_env() in the python SDK throws an error. so this error message kind of obscures other docker issues?

I’ve been pulled away to something else, but when I return to it I’ll investigate how my users / docker setup is, because I have it running without sudo (as recommended in the docs) but I suspect my setup is non-standard.