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ChrisRob
ChrisRob

Reputation: 1552

Stop and Remove Container does not work sometimes

I have a shell script .sh to stop and remove my running containers, which usually works very well. But in one out of ten times the docker rm command seems to be executed before docker stop finished, so it raises an error that the container is still running. What can i do to prevent that error?

docker stop nostalgic_shirley
docker rm nostalgic_shirley

Output

nostalgic_shirley
nostalgic_shirley
Error response from daemon: You cannot remove a running container xxxx. Stop the container before attempting removal or force remove

if i then try to use docker rm nostalgic_shirley again, it works fine.

I should not use docker stop --force as the shutdown should be gracefully

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11520

Answers (2)

spectre007
spectre007

Reputation: 1539

Do you have by any chance any other process/user login to container sometimes when it did not stopped ? Since as you mentioned this is something not happening frequently : have you checked the state of environment when this happens for parameters like CPU utilization, memory etc.

Have you tried

a) stopping the container with overriding -t flag

Use "-t" flag of "docker stop" command

-t, --time=10
       Seconds to wait for stop before killing it

b) Use "-f" flag of "docker rm" command

-f, --force[=false]
       Force the removal of a running container (uses SIGKILL)

Upvotes: 2

Eduard Dubilyer
Eduard Dubilyer

Reputation: 1013

If you really care to stop the container before deleting:

 docker stop nostalgic_shirley
 while [ ! -z "$(docker ps | grep nostalgic_shirley)" ]; do sleep 2; done
 docker rm nostalgic_shirley

If not, simply delete it with "force" option (You can even skip stopping):

 docker rm -f nostalgic_shirley

Upvotes: 6

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