Failure when executing ./gradlew :ComposeUp

[MurshedGilbert]

When executing ./gradlew :ComposeUp I get following error:

File "docker\api\client.py", line 221, in _retrieve_server_version
docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
[18368] Failed to execute script docker-compose

Task :composeUp FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':composeUp'.
Process 'command 'docker-compose'' finished with non-zero exit value -1

Any suggestion how to resolve this?

[cer]

Googling the error message finds a few results that suggests that something is not quite right with Docker.

What happens when you type 'docker-compose pull' on the command line?

And what's the output of 'docker-compose version' and 'docker version'

[MurshedGilbert]

I see this error:
$ docker-compose pull
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "docker\api\client.py", line 214, in _retrieve_server_version
File "docker\api\daemon.py", line 181, in version
File "docker\utils\decorators.py", line 46, in inner
File "docker\api\client.py", line 237, in _get
File "requests\sessions.py", line 543, in get
File "requests\sessions.py", line 530, in request
File "requests\sessions.py", line 643, in send
File "requests\adapters.py", line 439, in send
File "urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 670, in urlopen
File "urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
File "http\client.py", line 1255, in request
File "http\client.py", line 1301, in _send_request
File "http\client.py", line 1250, in endheaders
File "http\client.py", line 1010, in _send_output
File "http\client.py", line 950, in send
File "docker\transport\npipeconn.py", line 32, in connect
File "docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 23, in wrapped
File "docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 72, in connect
File "docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 52, in connect
pywintypes.error: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "docker-compose", line 3, in
File "compose\cli\main.py", line 81, in main
File "compose\cli\main.py", line 200, in perform_command
File "compose\cli\command.py", line 60, in project_from_options
File "compose\cli\command.py", line 152, in get_project
File "compose\cli\docker_client.py", line 41, in get_client
File "compose\cli\docker_client.py", line 170, in docker_client
File "docker\api\client.py", line 197, in init
File "docker\api\client.py", line 221, in _retrieve_server_version
docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: (2, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
[14868] Failed to execute script docker-compose

$ docker-compose version
docker-compose version 1.29.2, build 5becea4c
docker-py version: 5.0.0
CPython version: 3.9.0
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020

$ docker version
error during connect: This error may indicate that the docker daemon is not running.: Get "http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.24/version": open //./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified.
Client:
Cloud integration: 1.0.17
Version: 20.10.8
API version: 1.41
Go version: go1.16.6
Git commit: 3967b7d
Built: Fri Jul 30 19:58:50 2021
OS/Arch: windows/amd64
Context: default
Experimental: true

It shows my Docker daemon is not running. I assume I need to fix this issue.