proxy-1: error: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock

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I started containers by:

sudo docker compose up -d

And proxy-1 containers kept printing this error:

sudo docker attach getting-started-todo-appgit-proxy-1

time="2025-01-11T02:22:10Z" level=error msg="Failed to retrieve information of the docker client and server host: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/version\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied" providerName=docker
time="2025-01-11T02:22:10Z" level=error msg="Provider connection error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/version\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied, retrying in 1.492128448s" providerName=docker
time="2025-01-11T02:22:11Z" level=error msg="Failed to retrieve information of the docker client and server host: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/version\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied" providerName=docker
time="2025-01-11T02:22:11Z" level=error msg="Provider connection error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/version\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied, retrying in 2.607840139s" providerName=docker
time="2025-01-11T02:22:14Z" level=error msg="Failed to retrieve information of the docker client and server host: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/version\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied" providerName=docker
time="2025-01-11T02:22:14Z" level=error msg="Provider connection error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get \"http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/version\": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied, retrying in 4.521606207s" providerName=docker

...

It does not matter how container is started - I subsequently:

• First, avoided sudo.

• Wiped out all to start clean: containers, images, volumes, etc.

• Then, tried this (which rebuilt the containers again):

  docker compose watch
  

  This does not show you logs but the problem is there.

• Then, re-tried with this (to see live logs with the problem above):

  docker compose up --watch
  

Versions:

uname -sr
Linux 6.12.8-200.fc41.x86_64

rpm -qa docker*
docker-cli-27.3.1-2.fc41.x86_64
docker-buildx-0.18.0-1.fc41.x86_64
docker-compose-2.30.3-1.fc41.x86_64
docker-compose-switch-1.0.5-1.fc41.x86_64