Troubleshooting Errors When Running lando start

While developing Drupal and Omeka modules using Lando, a local development environment tool, the following error occasionally occurred.

lando start

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Updating helps us provide the best support and saves us tons of time

Use the link below to get the latest and greatest
https://github.com/lando/lando/releases/tag/v3.20.8

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Let's get this party started! Starting app my-lando-app...
ERROR ==> connect ENOENT /var/run/docker.sock

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An error occurred while starting up your app!
Here are a few things you can try to get back into a good state:

  ■ Try running lando rebuild
  ■ Try restarting in debug mode lando restart -vvv
  ■ Try checking the logs with lando logs

If those fail then consult the troubleshooting materials:

  ■ https://docs.lando.dev/help/logs.html
  ■ https://docs.lando.dev/help/updating.html

Or post your issue to Slack or GitHub

  ■ Slack - https://launchpass.com/devwithlando
  ■ GitHub - https://github.com/lando/lando/issues/new/choose

ERROR ==> connect ENOENT /var/run/docker.sock

This issue was mentioned in the following GitHub issue.

https://github.com/lando/lando/issues/3533#issuecomment-1464252377

After running the following command and then executing lando start again, the container started successfully.

sudo ln -s ~/.docker/run/docker.sock /var/run/docker.sock

I hope this helps others experiencing the same issue.