Cannot kill container: <container-id>: tried to kill container, but did not receive an exit event

lapurita

Dec 21

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I cannot stop, remove or kill my docker container. Commands given below with their respective error messages:

1. docker stop <container-id>
2. docker kill <container-id>
3. docker rm <container-id>

I get

1. Error response from daemon: cannot stop container: <container-id>: tried to kill container, but did not receive an exit event
2. Error response from daemon: cannot kill container: <container-id>: tried to kill container, but did not receive an exit event
3. Error response from daemon: You cannot remove a running container <container-id>. Stop the container before attempting removal or force remove

Same error messages if i prefix everything with sudo and also the same messages if I run all of commands above with --force. How do I solve this? It seems like I can't stop, kill or remove the container because it does not "receive an exit event". Nothing here helps: Error response from daemon: cannot stop container - signaling init process caused "permission denied" .

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Thor

Mar 14

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I used wilon's answer from https://forums.docker.com/t/restart-docker-from-command-line/9420/2

I ran killall Docker && open /Applications/Docker.app

Once that was done, I ran docker-compose down and all containers stopped as expected.

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SaeedPermalink

Dec 21

Try restarting docker service by running systemctl restart docker if it works

lapuritaPermalink

Dec 21

Restarting fixed it. Thanks. But there is no other way?

ugliestPermalink

Jul 8

All of the answers more or less say "kill docker altogether, including all running containers and docker itself". But isn't the point of the question, to find out how to force kill a running container without having to restart docker itself (or stop other containers)?