I did some research and I found the answer, I was able to fix the issue by using the overlay2 as storage driver, I followed the below link for that: https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/storagedriver/overlayfs-driver/

Below step I took to fix the issue: Stop Docker.

$ sudo systemctl stop docker Copy the contents of /var/lib/docker to a temporary location.

$ cp -au /var/lib/docker /var/lib/docker.bk

Edit /etc/docker/daemon.json. If it does not yet exist, create it. Assuming that the file was empty, add the following contents.

{ "storage-driver": "overlay2" }

Start Docker.

$ sudo systemctl start docker

Verify that the daemon is using the overlay/overlay2 storage driver. $ sudo docker info

After this I was able to run docker container on my "16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" sudo docker run -dit ubuntu

Docker CE

For Docker CE, only some configurations are tested, and your operating system’s kernel may not support every storage driver. In general, the following configurations work on recent versions of the Linux distribution:

Linux distribution Supported storage drivers Docker CE on Ubuntu aufs, devicemapper, overlay2 (Ubuntu 14.04.4 or later, 16.04 or later), overlay, zfs

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/24023