Nested Docker startup failed: Sysbox runtime unavailable

Error recorded 6 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen6 times · 3 variants

Why it happens

The deploy reached the preparing stage but could not start the DinD account container. Sysbox could not connect to its host service socket at /run/sysbox/sysfs.sock, indicating that the Sysbox service is stopped, unhealthy, or inaccessible. The application build did not start.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
Starting stage: preparingservice "dind" is not runningError response from daemon: failed to create task for container:failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed:failed to get config from sysbox-fs:rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error:dial unix /run/sysbox/sysfs.sock: connect: connection refused

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