docker: Error response from daemon: Server error from portlayer

docker: Error response from daemon: Server error from portlayer:

I got this error while running a new container in VIC.

I tried to move the VCH to a different ESXi Host, but no luck.

It is not advisable to reboot the VCH from vCenter, so had to skip that.

Tried to search the internet and came up with a similar error but a different cause - https://github.com/vmware/vic/issues/5782

This did not get me anywhere so I started looking from a higher level and this is what I noticed.

Turned out I had upgraded the VIC from 1.2.1 to 1.3 last weekend and complete forgot to upgrade this last VCH.

As you can see in the image above the VCH I was trying to run a container against was running on 1.2.1. Duh !

So I upgraded the VCH by running the following command -

./vic-machine-linux upgrade --id xxxxxx

And here is the result -

And ta-da I was able to run the new nginx container I was trying to deploy earlier.