DOCKER ERROR: failed to solve: frontend grpc server closed unexpectedly

I am using docker on an EC2 linux/arm64 instance Since my last docker upgrade, I have been getting the following error

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --ssh default -f
../containers/api/Dockerfile . -t api-test:latest
--target setup
#0 building with "default" instance using docker driver

#1 [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile
#1 transferring dockerfile: 493B done
#1 DONE 0.0s

#2 resolve image config for docker.io/docker/dockerfile:1.0.0-experimental
#2 DONE 0.6s

#3 docker-image://docker.io/docker/dockerfile:1.0.0-experimental@sha256:d2d402b6fa1dae752f8c688d72066a912d7042cc1727213f7990cdb57f60df0c
#3 CACHED Dockerfile:1 1 | >>> # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.0.0-experimental 2 | 3 | # Build stage
ERROR: failed to solve: frontend grpc server closed unexpectedly make:
*** [run-tests] Error 1 Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

The docker version

Client:

• Version: 25.0.3
• API version: 1.44
• Go version: go1.20.12 Git
• commit: 4debf41
• Built: Wed Feb 28 00:29:45 2024
• OS/Arch: linux/amd64
• Context: default

Server: Engine:

• Version: 25.0.3
• API version: 1.44 (minimum version 1.24)
• Go version: go1.20.12
• Git commit: f417435
• Built: Wed Feb 28 00:30:22 2024
• OS/Arch: linux/amd64
• Experimental: false containerd:
• Version: 1.3.2
• GitCommit: ff48f57fc83a8c44cf4ad5d672424a98ba37ded6
• runc: Version: 1.0.0-rc10
• GitCommit: dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
• docker-init: Version: 0.19.0
• GitCommit: de40ad0

On my M2 mac, it works fine with a newer version of docker

Docker version 26.1.4, build 5650f9b.

The issue was with the versions of containerd and runc.

I updated the two to resolve the issue.

More details: https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/5117