Regenerating Docker Machine TLS Certificates

My LBF will not start, just giving the above message forever.
I have tried to update latest version, have also updated VirtualBox.
I have tried the suggestions on other threads, but I cannot run any of the docker commands, as it cannot connect to docker, says that the daemon might not be running.
I cannot just reinstall, as my last website is still in here and I need to get at it, it is not in the local sites folder.

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Hi @snake,

You may need to manually restart the VM. Here’s what you can try:

  1. Open VirtualBox
  2. Right-click on local-by-flywheel and go to Close » ACPI Shutdown. Wait for the machine to completely power off.
  3. Re-open Local

If step #2 doesn’t work, try Close » Power Off instead of Close » ACPI Shutdown.

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already tried all that

If I can at least extract the site from the virtual machine, then I will gladly just reinstall it for a quick solution.

Can you try the following commands in Cmd.exe and provide the output? This should give us a better idea of what’s going on.

  • %LocalAppData%\Programs\local-by-flywheel\resources\extraResources\virtual-machine\vendor\docker\windows\docker-machine.exe kill local-by-flywheel
  • %LocalAppData%\Programs\local-by-flywheel\resources\extraResources\virtual-machine\vendor\docker\windows\docker-machine.exe start local-by-flywheel

The site data should already be ready to be extracted as long as there’s an sql folder in the site’s app folder. Here’s some more info on that How can I restore a site from a Local site folder?

the kill command stops the instance
the start command starts it
Copy of cmd window below. As stated in my oriignal post, I have already tried all these suggestions from the other threads.

The site data should already be ready to be extracted as long as there’s an sql folder in the site’s app folder. Here’s some more info on that How can I restore a site from a Local site folder?

As I did state in my original post
QUOTE “I cannot just reinstall, as my last website is still in here and I need to get at it, it is not in the local sites folder.”

results from CMD
C:\WINDOWS\system32>C:\Users\blade_000\AppData\Local\Programs\local-by-flywheel\resources\extraResources\virtual-machine\vendor\docker\windows\docker-machine.exe kill local-by-flywheel
Killing “local-by-flywheel”…
Machine “local-by-flywheel” is already stopped.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>C:\Users\blade_000\AppData\Local\Programs\local-by-flywheel\resources\extraResources\virtual-machine\vendor\docker\windows\docker-machine.exe start local-by-flywheel
Starting “local-by-flywheel”…
(local-by-flywheel) Check network to re-create if needed…
(local-by-flywheel) Waiting for an IP…
Machine “local-by-flywheel” was started.
Waiting for SSH to be available…
Detecting the provisioner…
Started machines may have new IP addresses. You may need to re-run the docker-machine env command.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

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Both of those results look good. Can you run one more command and provide the output?

%LocalAppData%\Programs\local-by-flywheel\resources\extraResources\virtual-machine\vendor\docker\windows\docker-machine.exe env local-by-flywheel

If the site is missing from the Local Sites folder then the only thing that will be inside the VM/container is the raw SQL data. The actual site files are mounted with VirtualBox’s shared folders on Windows and do not live inside the VM.

Did you make any changes that you can think of that would cause the site folder to go missing like changing around drives, etc?

no nothing was changed, this is on my son’s computer, it hadn’t been used for a couple of weeks, then next time we tried to run it, it no longer worked.

are u sure that the site files cannot be saved on the virtual machine, as the site was clealry working before LOCAL died.

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is there any solution to this yet. Both myself and my son have had this same issue, and now neither of us can use LOCAL

Hi Russ,

Did you and your son update to the latest Windows Creators Update by chance?

We’ve noticed there are some issues with it and we’re currently looking into it.

we are running version 1703, so yes the creators update is installed. However it looks like it was installed quite a while before this issue started.

and in both cases, data has vanished from \Local by Flywheel\Local Storage

Local doesn’t use this for the sites/VM so that fortunately shouldn’t be a concern.


VirtualBox 5.1.30 came out fairly recently. Another Windows user reported that upgrading fixed an issue on the latest Windows Creators Update. Here’s the direct download link: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.30/VirtualBox-5.1.30-118389-Win.exe

If this doesn’t help we can schedule a TeamViewer (or similar) session sometime since this is being such a difficult issue. Feel free to private message me with some days and times that work for you.

Sorry for the trouble! We’ll get to the bottom of what’s going on.

ok C:\Users[username]\Local Sites then
The most recent site we were working on is not in this folder

I have updated virtualbox to latest version and installed local 2.1.0 pre release.
Still broken and stuck on “checking system”

I have had to redo an entire site from scratch because of this.

Hello everyone! I have the same problem and I followed all the steps suggested but still doesn’t work.
Its Not working since yesterday…the only think I did was installing Adobe creative cloud. Need Help! thanks!

Same issue here on MacOS, was working fine up to like 6 hours ago.

Restarted macbook and now it’s broken, Local flicking between the “Checking system…” & “Regenerating docker machine TLS certificates”.

EDIT: Restarted machine again (computer, not the VM) and appears to be fine again… :thinking:

Clay, is there any solution to this yet?

since it doesn’t seem like any solution is forthcoming, I have had to resort to completely uninstalling local and reinstalling everything from scratch. Which has resolved the problem.