How can I stop and re-start the Docker service?

[zatricion]

I was trying to change Docker storage drivers and see if it fixed an issue I had with my application, but when I tried to stop the service with sudo systemctl stop docker, I couldn't start it again (sudo systemctl start docker). I tracked the issue to the docker.socket unit, but couldn't debug further. This issue on Docker looks really similar: moby/moby#25098. Can anyone reproduce this?

[rimusz]

sudo systemctl stop docker and sudo systemctl start docker is the way, strange it did not work for you

[zatricion]

I think this is the issue: https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1123-2016-10-26

[rimusz]

I do not see that as a big deal as usually I reboot VM for such needs.