So, after some minor changes in the docker configuration I tried to restart docker and it resulted in below error message:

A dependency job for docker.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.

Kubernetes is also running on the same machine where this docker daemon was running. Below are the logs of the docker service (output of journalctl -u docker.service).

May 15 08:56:06 ilcepoc500 systemd[1]: Stopping Docker Application Container Engine...
May 15 08:56:07 ilcepoc500 oci-umount[42741]: umounthook <debug>: 5148572ffa9c: only runs in prestart stage, ignoring
May 15 08:56:07 ilcepoc500 oci-systemd-hook[42824]: systemdhook <debug>: 4676114a4bcd: Skipping as container command is /fission-bundle, not init or systemd
May 15 08:56:07 ilcepoc500 oci-systemd-hook[43025]: systemdhook <debug>: 92140d272e14: Skipping as container command is /go/bin/all-in-one-linux, not init or systemd
May 15 08:56:18 ilcepoc500 oci-umount[44315]: umounthook <debug>: prestart container_id:12d638f87c0d rootfs:/storage/docker/overlay2/ab7502908ea8a939e9ea7379f9715e40b563717404fc5c2ee923062e67520f15/merged
May 15 08:56:21 ilcepoc500 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Docker Application Container Engine.
May 15 08:56:21 ilcepoc500 systemd[1]: Job docker.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

I followed some linked of Github and SO but no luck so far any hints are appreciated Below are the things that I have tried:

1. deleted /var/log/docker, reloaded docker-daemon and tried restarting docker, didn't work.

2. Create a file named override.conf inside the dir /etc/systemd/system/containerd.service.d and tried restarting the docker service didnt work.