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bug: incorrect docker.sock path for supabase_vector container with colima #5073

@hk220

Description

@hk220

Describe the bug
When running supabase start with colima, the supabase_vector container fails to start.
The cause is that when supabase start launches the supabase_vector container, the docker.sock path it specifies points to the macOS docker.sock.
It should instead point to /var/run/docker.sock inside the colima VM.

To Reproduce

  1. Install colima on macOS: brew install colima
  2. Start colima: colima start
  3. Run supabase start
  4. An error occurs
failed to start docker container "supabase_vector_quickstart-react": Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/Users/hk/.colima/default/docker.sock': mkdir /Users/hk/.colima/default/docker.sock: operation not supported

Expected behavior
supabase start completes successfully.

System information

  • Ticket ID: 1c187cd3ac784751af0b3a0cd35e486e
  • Version of OS: macOS 26.4.1
  • Version of CLI: 2.89.1
  • Version of Docker: 29.4.
  • Versions of services:
% npx supabase services


   SERVICE IMAGE          | LOCAL                  | LINKED
  ------------------------|------------------------|--------
   supabase/postgres      | 17.6.1.106             | -
   supabase/gotrue        | v2.188.1               | -
   postgrest/postgrest    | v14.8                  | -
   supabase/realtime      | v2.82.0                | -
   supabase/storage-api   | v1.48.28               | -
   supabase/edge-runtime  | v1.73.3                | -
   supabase/studio        | 2026.04.08-sha-205cbe7 | -
   supabase/postgres-meta | v0.96.4                | -
   supabase/logflare      | 1.37.1                 | -
   supabase/supavisor     | 2.7.4                  | -

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