DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))

env
google colab

steps

!apt update
!apt install -y docker.io
pip install -U docker
import docker

execute

client = docker.from_env()
client

result

FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
[/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in urlopen(self, method, url, body, headers, retries, redirect, assert_same_host, timeout, pool_timeout, release_conn, chunked, body_pos, preload_content, decode_content, **response_kw)
    790             # Make the request on the HTTPConnection object
--> 791             response = self._make_request(
    792                 conn,

29 frames
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

ProtocolError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

ConnectionError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

DockerException                           Traceback (most recent call last)
[/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in _retrieve_server_version(self)
    218             ) from ke
    219         except Exception as e:
--> 220             raise DockerException(
    221                 f'Error while fetching server API version: {e}'
    222             ) from e

DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: ('Connection aborted.', FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory'))

best regards

Start by reproducing the Google Colab steps and the client = docker.from_env() entry point. Read docker/api/client.py around _retrieve_server_version and determine whether the failure is caused by the reported environment or by the library. Done means the issue has a confirmed cause and a justified library change or documented limitation.