Registration of the docker container factory failed after update to v0.54.1

Author: agebhar1Created Dec 7, 2025Updated Jun 28, 2026

After updating from v0.54.0 to v.54.1 the docker container factory fails.

v0.54.0

cadvisor-1  | I1207 18:29:25.894956       1 factory.go:221] Registration of the containerd container factory failed: unable to create containerd client: containerd: cannot unix dial containerd api service: dial unix /run/containerd/containerd.sock: connect: no such file or directory
cadvisor-1  | I1207 18:29:25.909764       1 factory.go:361] Registering Docker factory
cadvisor-1  | I1207 18:29:25.909796       1 factory.go:223] Registration of the docker container factory successfully

v0.54.1

cadvisor-1  | I1207 19:09:33.791068       1 factory.go:221] Registration of the containerd container factory failed: unable to create containerd client: containerd: cannot unix dial containerd api service: dial unix /run/containerd/containerd.sock: connect: no such file or directory
cadvisor-1  | I1207 19:09:33.807339       1 factory.go:221] Registration of the docker container factory failed: unable to create containerd client: containerd: cannot unix dial containerd api service: dial unix /run/containerd/containerd.sock: connect: no such file or directory

The error message for the failed docker container factory equals the containerd container factory.

Source: google/cadvisor

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