[RFC] Strip "Error response from daemon:" prefix about cli HOT 5 CLOSED

I don't think Error response from daemon is so bad, but the messages get very messy when the error returned by the daemon has a lot of unnecessary prefixes.

For example, trying to run a binary that doesn't exist:

docker: Error response from daemon: oci runtime error: container_linux.go:262: starting container process caused "exec: \"mozilla\": executable file not found in $PATH".

There are so many :s in that message, and most of it isn't useful. The source file and line number is the most egregious part - that's absolutely no help to the user and makes it look like something is wrong internally. And we have a quoted string with backslash-escaped characters for no good reason.

I think it should read:

docker: Error response from daemon: executable file "mozilla" not found in $PATH

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/cc @friism @dnephin @vdemeester

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I think there is value in understanding where the error is coming from. "from daemon" is probably not the right term, so we should change that part to something more meaningful. "from server", "from api" ?

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Idk, perhaps we should look at errors individually, but from a UX perspective, there's many examples where it doesn't really matter I guess. Sometimes errors are wrapped three times (error response from daemon: error while doing something: something was not found).

Perhaps logging such errors would be useful, but printing a more user-friendly message.

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This is an old issue. I will close it as stale.

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