boot2docker shellinit command ended up in error "Error requesting socket: exit status 255"

Question

Installed boot2docker on OSX, as per instructions of http://boot2docker.io/. After that started the application. In a terminal, boot2docker shellinit command started and ended up in throwing this error "Error requesting socket: exit status 255". Tried boot2docker stop--->delete--->download--->init--->up . It didn't help. The version I used is v1.3.1. Any ideas why it might have failed? Thanks!

Answer 1

Finally this solution worked for me. It seems like, it is mandatory to have the localhost assigned to 127.0.0.1 in our hosts file(location is /etc/hosts). The following line should be there in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost

And do the following. At the end, assign variables as the console shows.

boot2docker init boot2docker download boot2docker up

Answer 2

try to see the actual error in virtualbox screen.

For me it was because visualization was not enabled in my bios. I could see “this kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detects an i686 CPU, unable to boot” error in virtual box screen

in bios, security>visualization>enable>save and exit

Good luck