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Asked: 2020-12-10T22:50:12+00:00 In:

Docker Compose Up gives “The system cannot find the file specified.” error

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I have recently installed Docker Toolbox on my Windows 10 machine.

However, whenever I run docker-compose up I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 65, in main
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 117, in perform_command
  File "compose\cli\main.py", line 849, in up
  File "compose\project.py", line 372, in up
  File "compose\project.py", line 539, in warn_for_swarm_mode
  File "site-packages\docker\api\daemon.py", line 33, in info
  File "site-packages\docker\utils\decorators.py", line 47, in inner
  File "site-packages\docker\client.py", line 139, in _get
  File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 488, in get
  File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 475, in request
  File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 596, in send
  File "site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 423, in send
  File "site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 595, in urlopen
  File "site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 363, in _make_request
  File "httplib.py", line 1057, in request
  File "httplib.py", line 1097, in _send_request
  File "httplib.py", line 1053, in endheaders
  File "httplib.py", line 897, in _send_output
  File "httplib.py", line 859, in send
  File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipeconn.py", line 31, in connect
  File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 22, in wrapped
  File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 49, in connect
pywintypes.error: (2, 'WaitNamedPipe', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
docker-compose returned -1

Note that I have C:\Python27 and C:\Python27\Scripts in both my user and system environment variables. I also tried this using Python 3, and it still doesn’t work.

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    1. Kenil Vasani

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      You and I may or may not have the same problem. In the link posted by @Haken Lid above, the issue is with the PATH environment variable not having the correct version of Python.

      BUT, for me, the issue was that I had not set all of my environment variables, by running

      eval $(docker-machine env <vmname>)

      before I ran the docker-compose <any command>.

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