Docker Desktop not working proper on Debian [QEMU Error]

[R0h1tAnand]

Description

Whenever i start docker desktop on Linux [Debian Kali-Linux ] after some time the engine automatically stops and give me this error .

I am not sure how do i fix this issue ... ?? Please help

Reproduce

1. Start Docker desktop on linux [Debian]
2. Wait for some time.
3. then the engine stops automatically on it own and shows the errir

Expected behavior

No response

docker version

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           29.1.5
 API version:       1.52
 Go version:        go1.25.6
 Git commit:        0e6fee6
 Built:             Fri Jan 16 12:48:42 2026
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          29.1.5
  API version:      1.52 (minimum version 1.44)
  Go version:       go1.25.6
  Git commit:       3b01d64
  Built:            Fri Jan 16 12:48:42 2026
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v2.2.1
  GitCommit:        dea7da592f5d1d2b7755e3a161be07f43fad8f75
 runc:
  Version:          1.3.4
  GitCommit:        v1.3.4-0-gd6d73eb8
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

docker info

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:    29.1.5
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  ai: Docker AI Agent - Ask Gordon (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.17.1
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-ai
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.30.1-desktop.1
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v5.0.1
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
  debug: Get a shell into any image or container (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  0.0.47
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-debug
  desktop: Docker Desktop commands (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.0
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-desktop
  extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.31
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-extension
  init: Creates Docker-related starter files for your project (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.4.0
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-init
  mcp: Docker MCP Plugin (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.35.0
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-mcp
  offload: Docker Offload (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.5.40
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-offload
  pass: Docker Pass Secrets Manager Plugin (beta) (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.0.22
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-pass
  sandbox: Docker Sandbox (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.6.0
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-sandbox
  sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc.)
    Version:  0.6.0
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-sbom
  scout: Docker Scout (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.19.0
    Path:     /home/rohit/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-scout

Server:
 Containers: 0
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 0
 Images: 0
 Server Version: 29.1.5
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: false
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: systemd
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
 CDI spec directories:
  /etc/cdi
  /var/run/cdi
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: dea7da592f5d1d2b7755e3a161be07f43fad8f75
 runc version: v1.3.4-0-gd6d73eb8
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  apparmor
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns
 Kernel Version: 6.18.5+kali-amd64
 Operating System: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 8
 Total Memory: 15.36GiB
 Name: Infinity
 ID: 336c8e03-cbf7-464e-955f-23a1b778286b
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  ::1/128
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false
 Firewall Backend: iptables

Diagnostics ID

83E9592E-36E9-4F7F-9A87-1EDF70F6F02B/20260126114721

Additional Info

No response

[rmunn]

Also happening to me, on Arch Linux running Docker Desktop 4.58.0. Downgrading all qemu-* packages from QEMU version 10.2.0 to version 10.1.2 got past the QEMU crash for me, though then the internal Kubernetes cluster was failing to start for reasons I have not yet diagnosed. But if you're running QEMU 10.2, try downgrading all qemu-* packages to 10.1.x and see if that fixes the crash.

[rmunn]

The Kubernetes cluster failing was due to a transient issue and went away after rebooting. So now I can consistently reproduce the issue and the solution. QEMU 10.2.0 = crash. Downgrade all qemu-* packages to version 10.1.2 = Docker Desktop runs just fine again. Again, that's on Arch Linux; I don't have a Kali Linux box set up to test with.

[ArtStepanyuk]

Can confim same error on Arch, started to happen recently so I also suspect qemu update to be faulty, if possible I would preffer to avoid dowgrading qemus for a fix.

[tigefa4u]

Can confim same error on Arch, started to happen recently so I also suspect qemu update to be faulty, if possible I would preffer to avoid dowgrading qemus for a fix.