Cannot stop or restart a docker container

Question

When trying to stop or restart a docker container I\'m getting the following error message:

$ docker restart 5ba0a86f36ea
Error response from daemon: Cannot rest         


        

Answer 1

I couldn't locate boot2docker in my machine. So, I came up with something that worked for me.

$ sudo systemctl restart docker.socket docker.service
$ docker rm -f 

Check if it helps you as well.