docker rmi cannot remove images, with: no such id

Question

I have a lot of images. When I try to remove them with docker rmi

$ sudo docker rmi acd33a9490dc
Error response from daemon: No such id: 75ce1f6710b         


        

Answer 1

So... some cases of this seem to be because you have a no-longer-running container that references the image. Removing the container allows you to then remove the image.

But there is definitely a bug where docker gets itself into a state where no matter what you do, it can't remove any image. This has been fixed in docker 1.4.0: https://github.com/docker/docker/commit/ac40e7c

Answer 2

this will remove all your container and then you can remove the images

sudo docker ps -a | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v CONTAINER | xargs sudo docker rm {}\;

Answer 3

First you need to locate the container holding the image.

To remove a single container with the image

docker ps -a

You will get such an output

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
g7aea2132441        2285ff53ab18        "/bin/bash"         2 days ago                                                  tombrider 

Then remove the container using

docker rm g7aea2132441

To remove all the containers and images do

1. Remove all the containers

   docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
   docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
   

2. Remove the now dangling images

   docker images -q --filter "dangling=true" | sudo xargs docker rmi