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

in my case, i couldn't delete container created with nomad jobs, there's no output for the docker logs <ContainerID> and, in general, it looks like frozen.

until now the solution is: sudo service docker restart, may someone suggest better one?

Answer 2

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 <container id>

Check if it helps you as well.

Answer 3

Check if there is any zombie process using "top" command.

docker ps | grep <<container name>> 

Get the container id.

ps -ef | grep <<container id>>

ps -ef|grep defunct | grep java

And kill the container by Parent PID .

Answer 4

Enjoy

sudo aa-remove-unknown

This is what worked for me.