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Description: William John Bert is a software engineer and writer living in Oakland, California.
I recently upgraded to an M1 Macbook Pro running macOS Monterey, and at first, Docker seemed to run fine. I was able to build my containers and do a lengthy database import.
A day later, when I started Docker, nothing happened for a minute, then I saw an error modal saying "Failed to ping backend API". The modal offered a few buttons such as resetting to factory defaults, but 1) I really didn't want to reset and lose my containers, including that lengthy database import, and 2) the buttons did not work anyway -- I got a beachball cursor if I tried to click them.
I quickly found this issue with lots of folks reporting the same problem. It was still open, with no progress in sight. There were several reported fixes, and I tried the ones that seemed possibly applicable to my case, mostly around giving Docker additional privileges through System Settings -> Privacy, including Full Disk Access, Automation control of Terminal.app, and Developer Tools. I continued to get the same error. Nothing was left except the brute-force approach of uninstalling Docker via command li
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