I installed docker on a Debian 7 machine in the following way $ echo deb http://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list $ sudo apt-get update $ curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ubuntu/ | sudo sh After that when I first tried creating an Image it failed with the following error time="2015-06-02T14:26:37-04:00" level=info msg="[8] System error: write /sys/fs/cgroup/doc