# Setup\_remote\_docker step failing on job

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/setup-remote-docker-step-failing-on-job/22870>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/setup-remote-docker-step-failing-on-job/22870 "2018-06-08T19:24:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![maniator](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/maniator/32/18540_2.png) [@maniator](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/maniator)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/setup-remote-docker-step-failing-on-job/22870/1 "2018-06-08T19:24:58Z")

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setup\_remote\_docker step in a job keeps failng with this error:

```auto
Allocating a remote Docker Engine
Waiting for a Docker Engine assignment: ....................................................................................................

Got error while creating host: instance not ready yet: unassigned
We had an unexpected error preparing a VM for this build, potentially due to our infrastructure or cloud provider. Please retry the build in a few minutes.

```

Have retried quite a few times and i keep failing today.

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**Author:** ![halfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/halfer/32/9083_2.png) [@halfer](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/halfer)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/setup-remote-docker-step-failing-on-job/22870/2 "2018-06-08T21:29:09Z")

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Has this happened before for you? It seemed fine for my scheduled workflow some 7 hours ago. Is it still a problem now? There does not seem to have been any outage reported on the CircleCI status page.

Do you have an ordinary class of machine (4G RAM) running on Circle 2.0 with a Docker executor?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/setup-remote-docker-step-failing-on-job/22870/3 "2018-09-06T21:29:15Z")

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