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hotmeatballsoup
hotmeatballsoup

Reputation: 635

Docker kill command not working: Cannot kill container

I am trying to kill (force stop) a MySQL DB container and it is refusing to die:

$ docker kill 55718df7a9d6
Error response from daemon: Cannot kill container: 55718df7a9d6: Container 55718df7a9d6600501bbd248fe0c1ef7da3f970fea84461cbe5f10c70f0cbe22 is not running
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                          PORTS               NAMES
55718df7a9d6        mysql:8             "docker-entrypoint.s…"   3 minutes ago       Restarting (1) 58 seconds ago                       my-main-db

When I try to kill it:

$ docker stop 55718df7a9d6
55718df7a9d6
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                          PORTS               NAMES
55718df7a9d6        mysql:8             "docker-entrypoint.s…"   19 minutes ago      Restarting (1) 17 minutes ago                       my-main-db

How can I force this to die and clean up so that docker ps returns no results?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6641

Answers (2)

EdwardKirk
EdwardKirk

Reputation: 455

You should try to use the docker stop <id> command, since your container is restarting, if you try to kill it while it’s not running, you’ll get the error above

Updating the answer based on your new edit

You can forcefully delete your container by issuing the docker rm <container_id> -f and then recreate it

Upvotes: 1

Ashok
Ashok

Reputation: 3611

Use --force or -f shorthand to force-remove a container.

docker rm -f <your-container-name or id>

Upvotes: 2

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