Docker: error creating overlay mount

[TheChronicMonster]

This is a Docker issue, not a Reach error, but it affected my ability to use Reach.

I encountered this error when running any reach command:

docker: Error response from daemon: error creating overlay mount to /var/lib/docker/overlay2/a83983cb2a6316abe44839825b659b2d679360b3b534223f59f2157f533da2f8-init/merged: too many levels of symbolic links.

I wasn't able to find ~/docker/overlay2/... in /var/lib/

This was my solution:

I did the things you're supposed to do first like reset Docker and my computer and then updated Docker and restarted again just to be sure.

Then I opened Docker desktop and removed reach containers, and after that I removed all of the Images. I had 30+ GB worth of images. It took about three clean up cycles to remove them all.

After that, I opened the 'Troubleshoot' tab (in Docker desktop it's a bug icon) and I clicked Clean/Purge data and let it do its thing and then clicked the Restart button.

When Docker was running again I tried ./reach version and it worked!

Time to get back to building!