Local Workflow Troubleshooting
Frequently encountered problems and their solution
1. buildstock_docker errors out with: ImageNotFound
Make sure your docker desktop is running.
On your command line run: docker image ls
You should be seeing nrel/openstudio listed as one of the available images. If not then run: docker pull nrel/openstudio
and after it finishes, try running buildstock_docker again.
If the pulling errors out and says: "image operation system "linux" cannot be used on this platform",
then you have the wrong format of docker setup/installed in your windows machine. You will need to reinstall docker and deselect "use windows container" checkbox or change the settings to make it use linux containers.
2. buildstock_docker errors out with: Client Error:("Conflict. The container name is already in use by container ...
The previous simulation crashed and has left some stale containers. The old containers need to be cleaned up.
Run the following two commands on the terminal to fix the issue:
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)