Docker Desktop for Windows always getting stuck on extracting
docker, docker-desktop, docker-for-windows
Solution
I had the same problem and came across this issue Docker can hang indefinitely waiting for a nonexistant process to pull an image. on the moby repo.
The suggested workaround is:
Restarting docker daemon solves the issue
It did the trick for me too.
Problem
I am facing a problem with Docker Desktop for Windows where I am pulling the docker image `microsoft/windowsservercore` and it contains 2 layers, one around 1.16 GB and the other one around 4.07 GB. The problem I am facing is that the 4.07GB layer always gets stuck at extracting. I have tried it multiple times in last 2 days. Download easily takes around 40 minutes and extraction takes much longer, getting stuck in the middle for minutes without any progress then towards the end, it just gets stuck completely and does not proceed even if I wait for half an hour or whatever. What might be the issue, how can I debug it? Can it be due to system configuration or due to the amount of resources allocated to docker? Is it possible to allocate more resources to docker? One thing I have observed is that the PC tends to get a lot slower once the extraction gets stuck. However, when I check task manager, the CPU and memory utilization is not beyond 50%. I have 8GB of DDR3 RAM using an i5 processor running Windows 10. ``` PS C:\Users\mandeep\ringba\ringba-jenkins-setup-windows\windows-java> docker build -t windows-java:jre1.8.0_91 . Sending build context to Docker daemon 2.048 kB Step 1/5 : FROM microsoft/windowsservercore latest: Pulling from microsoft/windowsservercore 3889bb8d808b: Extracting [=================================================> ] 4.027 GB/4.07 GB 6d4d50238ed1: Download complete ```