The command 'docker ps -all' gives me all the created containers but 'docker ps -a' also supposed to give me same results but somehow it returns me only 1 or sometimes 2 latest entries of containers.
Can someone please explain me? I am new to docker. Any help is appreciated.
There is a difference between docker ps -a (which is identical to docker ps --all) and docker ps -all.
We can see the difference by looking at the documentation of docker ps:
Options
Name, shorthand Default Description
--all , -a Show all containers (default shows just running)
--filter , -f Filter output based on conditions provided
--format Pretty-print containers using a Go template
--last , -n -1 Show n last created containers (includes all states)
--latest , -l Show the latest created container (includes all states)
--no-trunc Don't truncate output
--quiet , -q Only display container IDs
--size , -s Display total file sizes
As we can see: docker ps -a and docker ps --all are identical.
Meanwhile, docker ps -all uses the shorthand form and is identical to docker ps -al. This command will only show the most recently created container.
As you can see in the documentation -a is just short for --all, they serve the same purpose.
docker ps -a and docker ps --all are same commands but if you use docker ps -all command it will return just last created container. docker ps -all is same as docker ps -al.
The docker command "docker container rm $(docker ps -aq) -f" works fine from the command line. However, when I try to run it from a makefile using the following target ("remove_all_containers")...
remove_all_containers:
docker container rm $(docker ps -aq) -f
I get the error message:
host_name$ make remove_all_containers
docker container rm -f
"docker container rm" requires at least 1 argument.
See 'docker container rm --help'.
Usage: docker container rm [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]
Remove one or more containers
make: *** [remove_all_containers] Error 1
Clearly, when executed from within the makefile, the "docker ps" command is not being properly being properly executed in a way where its results can be collected and passed into the "container rm" command.
My Question: How do I get the "docker ps" command to run correctly from within the makefile and pass its results correctly into the "docker rm" command, also within the makefile?
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance you can offer.
You need a second $ in your recipe:
remove_all_containers:
docker container rm $$(docker ps -aq) -f
# ^
The single $ is expanded as a makefile variable when the makefile is parsed. It expands to blank. Make therefore passes docker container rm -f to your shell. The second $ sign causes make to expand $$ to $, and it will pass docker container rm $(docker ps -aq) -f to bash, which I'm guessing is what you want.
Notice, if you put the shell in there as #EricMd proposed, it will run a shell command, but that command will be run at Makefile read time, as opposed to the time that the recipe is executed. If the docker ps -aq command is dependent on any other artifacts of your build it would not work.
Sounds like you don't have any containers in docker to remove. I sometimes use a different syntax for this scenario:
remove_all_containers:
docker container ls -aq | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker container rm -f
The xargs syntax will not run docker container rm if there are no containers to delete.
According to the documentation, docker ps -a should list all containers.
You obtained this message "docker container rm" requires at least 1 argument certainly because you forgot to prepend the command at stake with Make's shell builtin:
remove_all_containers:
docker container rm $(shell docker ps -aq) -f
Note also that the docker ps admits a filtering feature: the online doc describes the various flavors of the corresponding -f flag.
For example, below are three Bash alias examples that can be useful to (i) stop all containers, (ii) remove all stopped containers; and (iii) remove dangling images−that would be tagged as <none> when doing docker images ls:
alias docker-stop='docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)'
alias docker-clean='docker rm $(docker ps -a -q -f status=exited)'
alias docker-purge='docker rmi $(docker images -q -f dangling=true)'
I tested for 2 way follow bellow answer:
remove_all_containers:
docker container rm $$(docker ps -aq) -f
remove_all_containers:
docker container rm $(shell docker ps -aq) -f
I'm executing a command docker ps -a | grep <imagename> from another container.
It shows
sh: grep: command not found
sh: docker: command not found
Can anyone support me on it?
When you create image1, depending on its base image:
it might not have docker installed in it (see "How to install docker in docker container?")
it might not have grep installed (depending on your base image, or your $PATH defined in that image )
So start by checking those two factors.
If you are searching for an image name, you can try:
docker ps --filter ancestor=image_name
If you are searching for a container name, you can try:
docker ps --filter "name=container_name"
But the fellas are right, if you don't have docker installed on that container, you won't be able to execute the docker ps command.
I am unable to remove the dead container, it appears again after i restart the Docker service.
docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID STATUS
11667ef16239 Dead
Then
docker rm -f 11667ef16239
Then, when I ran the docker ps -a, no docker containers showing.
docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID STATUS
However, when I restart the docker service:
service docker restart
And run the docker ps -a again:
docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID STATUS
11667ef16239 Dead
You can also remove dead containers with this command
docker rm $(docker ps --all -q -f status=dead)
But, I'm really not sure why & how the dead containers are created. This error seems related https://github.com/typesafehub/mesos-spark-integration-tests/issues/34 whenever i get dead containers
[Update]
With Docker 1.13 update, we can easily remove both unwanted containers, dangling images
$ docker system df #will show used space, similar to the unix tool df
$ docker system prune # will remove all unused data.
Most likely, an error occurred when the daemon attempted to cleanup the container, and he is now stuck in this "zombie" state.
I'm afraid your only option here is to manually clean it up:
$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/<storage_driver>/11667ef16239.../
Where <storage_driver> is the name of your driver (aufs, overlay, btrfs, or devicemapper).
Actually things changed slightly these days in order to get rid of those dead containers you may try to unmount those blocked filesystems to release them
So if you get message like this
Error response from daemon: Cannot destroy container elated_wozniak: Driver devicemapper failed to remove root filesystem 656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3: Device is Busy
just run this
umount /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3
and you can normally remove container after that
I had the following error when removing a dead container (docker 17.06.1-ce on CentOS 7):
Error response from daemon: driver "overlay" failed to remove root filesystem for <some-id>:
remove /var/lib/docker/overlay/<some-id>/merged: device or resource busy
Here is how I fixed it:
1. Check which other processes are also using docker resources
$ grep docker /proc/*/mountinfo
which outputs something like this, where the number after /proc/ is the pid:
/proc/10001/mountinfo:179...
/proc/10002/mountinfo:149...
/proc/12345/mountinfo:159 149 0:36 / /var/lib/docker/overlay/...
2. Check the process name of the above pid
$ ps -p 10001 -o comm=
dockerd
$ ps -p 10002 -o comm=
docker-containe
$ ps -p 12345 -o comm=
nginx <<<-- This is suspicious!!!
So, nginx with pid 12345 seems to also be using /var/lib/docker/overlay/..., which is why we cannot remove the related container and get the device or resource busy error. (See here for a discussion on how nginx shares the same mount namespace with docker containers thus prevents its deletion.)
3. Stop nginx and then I can remove the container successfully.
$ sudo service nginx stop
$ docker rm <container-id>
I got the same issue and both answers did not help.
What helped for me is just creating the directories that are missing and them remove them:
mkdir /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3
mkdir /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3-init
docker rm 656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3
Removing container by force worked for me.
docker rm -f <id_of_the_dead_container>
Notes:
Be aware that this command might throw this error
Error response from daemon: Driver devicemapper failed to remove root filesystem <id_of_the_dead_container>: Device is Busy
The mount of your's dead container device mapper should be removed despite this message. That is, you will no longer access this path:
/var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/<id_of_the_dead_container>
Tried all of the above (short of reboot/ restart docker).
So here is the error om docker rm:
$ docker rm 08d51aad0e74
Error response from daemon: driver "devicemapper" failed to remove root filesystem for 08d51aad0e74060f54bba36268386fe991eff74570e7ee29b7c4d74047d809aa: remove /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/670cdbd30a3627ae4801044d32a423284b540c5057002dd010186c69b6cc7eea: device or resource busy
Then I did a the following:
$ grep docker /proc/*/mountinfo | grep 958722d105f8586978361409c9d70aff17c0af3a1970cb3c2fb7908fe5a310ac
/proc/20416/mountinfo:629 574 253:15 / /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/958722d105f8586978361409c9d70aff17c0af3a1970cb3c2fb7908fe5a310ac rw,relatime shared:288 - xfs /dev/mapper/docker-253:5-786536-958722d105f8586978361409c9d70aff17c0af3a1970cb3c2fb7908fe5a310ac rw,nouuid,attr2,inode64,logbsize=64k,sunit=128,swidth=128,noquota
This got be the PID of the offending process keeping it busy - 20416 (the item after /proc/
So I did a ps -p and to my surprise find:
[devops#dp01app5030 SeGrid]$ ps -p 20416
PID TTY TIME CMD
20416 ? 00:00:19 ntpd
A true WTF moment. So I pair problem solved with Google and found this:
Then found this https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/124
Turns out I had to restart ntp daemon and that fixed the issue!!!
For Deleting all dead container
docker rm -f $(docker ps --all -q -f status=dead)
For deleting all exited container docker rm -f $(docker ps --all -q -f status=exited)
As I have -f is necessary
Try running the following commands. It always works for me.
# docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)
# docker rm $(docker ps -q -f 'status=exited')
After execution of the above commands, restart docker by,
# service docker restart
grep 656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3 /proc/*/mountinfo
then find the pid of 656cfd09aee399c8ae8c8d3e735fe48d70be6672773616e15579c8de18e2a3b3and and kill it
I have tried the suggestions above but didn't work.
Then
I try : docker system prune -a, it didn't work the first time
I reboot the system
I try again docker system prune -a. This time it works. It will send a warning message and in the end ask "Are you sure you want to continue? y/n? . Ans:y . It will time a time and in the end the dead containers are gone.
Verify with docker ps -a
IMPORTANT - this is the nuclear option as it destroys all containers + images
for Windows:
del D:\ProgramData\docker\containers\{CONTAINER ID}
del D:\ProgramData\docker\windowsfilter\{CONTAINER ID}
Then restart the Docker Desktop
Try kill it and then remove >:) i.e.
docker kill $(docker ps -q)
Try, It worked for me:
$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
4f13b53be9dd 5b0bbf1173ea "/opt/app/netjet..." 5 months ago Dead appname_chess
$ docker rm $(docker ps --all -q -f status=dead)
Error response from daemon: driver "devicemapper" failed to remove root filesystem for 4f13b53be9ddef3e9ba281546aef1c544805282971f324291a1dc91b50eeb440: failed to remove device 487b4b73c58d19ef79201cf6d5fcd6b7316e612e99c14505a6bf24399cad9795-init: devicemapper: Error running DeleteDevice dm_task_run failed
su
cd /var/lib/docker/containers
[root#localhost containers]# ls -l
total 0
drwx------. 1 root root 312 Nov 17 08:58 4f13b53be9ddef3e9ba281546aef1c544805282971f324291a1dc91b50eeb440
[root#localhost containers]# rm -rf 4f13b53be9ddef3e9ba281546aef1c544805282971f324291a1dc91b50eeb440
systemctl restart docker
Try this it worked for me:
docker rm -f <container_name>
eg. docker rm -f 11667ef16239
There are a lot of answers in here but none of them involved the (quick) solution that worked for me.
I'm using Docker version 1.12.3, build 6b644ec.
I simply ran docker rmi <image-name> for the image from whence the dead container came. A docker ps -a then showed the dead container missing completely.
Then, of course, I just re-pulled the image and ran the container again.
I have no idea how it found itself in this state but so it is...
In my case, I had to remove it with
rm -r /var/lib/docker/containers/<container-id>/
and it worked. Maybe that's how you solve it in docker version ~19. My docker version was 19.03.12,
For future users I wanna share my experience: (2022)
To see all containers I ran
docker container ls -a
then to kill containers I ran:
docker rm -f YOUR_CONTAINER_ID
for example:
docker rm -f d389s8dffe
Running on Centos7 & Docker 1.8.2, I was unable to use Zgr3doo's solution to umount by devicemapper ( I think the response I got was that the volume wasn't mounted/found. )
I think I also had a similar thing happen with sk8terboi87 ツ 's answer: I believe the message was that the volumes couldn't be unmounted, and it listed the specific volumes that it tried to umount in order to delete the dead containers.
What did work for me was stopping docker first, and then deleting the directories manually. I was able to determine which ones they were by the error output of previous command to delete all the dead containers.
Apologies for the vague descriptions above. I found this SO question days after I handled the dead containers. .. However, I noticed a similar pattern today:
$ sudo docker stop fervent_fermi; sudo docker rm fervent_fermi fervent_fermi
Error response from daemon: Cannot destroy container fervent_fermi: Driver devicemapper failed to remove root filesystem a11bae452da3dd776354aae311da5be5ff70ac9ebf33d33b66a24c62c3ec7f35: Device is Busy
Error: failed to remove containers: [fervent_fermi]
$ sudo systemctl docker stop
$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt/a11bae452da3dd776354aae311da5be5ff70ac9ebf33d33b66a24c62c3ec7f35
$
I did notice, when using this approach that docker re-created the images with different names:
a11bae452da3 trend_av_docker "bash" 2 weeks ago Dead compassionate_ardinghelli
This may have been due to the container being issued with restart=always, however, the container ID matches the ID of the container that previously used the volume that I force-deleted. There were no difficulties deleting this new container:
$ sudo docker rm -v compassionate_ardinghelli
compassionate_ardinghelli
Try this it worked for me on centos
1) docker container ls -a
gives you a list of containers check status which you want to get rid of
2) docker container rm -f 97af2da41b2b
not a big fan force flag but does the work
to check it worked just fire the command again or list it.
3) continue till we clear all dead containers
The best way to get rid of dead container processes is to restart your docker service.
I was unable to remove a container as it was stuck in restarting status, I just restarted the docker service and it worked for me.
I restarted the Docker Agent on Windows bottom right corner, docker iCon, Restart Docker. Then I ran docker ps -a and saw the container still sitting there.
I then ran docker rm -f container id and that worked for me.
If you are a Mac/Windows user and have Docker Desktop, you can just simply restart your Docker Desktop and in the UI you can simply remove the container without any complications.
In my case there was no actually mounted points inside docker container. Error raised after some ifup/down game inside privileged ct. The usual way of removing container didn’t work too uprising the similar error:
user#server:~$ docker rm -f tklc.dead
Error response from daemon: containers 896c259600c951323d5db4438d8faaa0de9de4b0cf0b998ab0896e82ec1b3769: driver "overlay2" failed to remove root filesystem: unlinkat /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev/urandom: operation not permitted
Nor worked any attempt to unmount any links or mount points inside. Nor to find and stop any processes associated with dead container. Nor worked any attempts to remove files directly.
user#server:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev/urandom': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev/random': Operation not permitted
And finally I listed the file preventing docker container to be removed.
user#server:~$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev
total 0
---------- 1 root root 0 окт 31 18:17 random
---------- 1 root root 0 окт 31 18:17 urandom
Bingo! No permissions to access to file. Even for superuser! It is definitely extended attributes.
user#server:~$ sudo lsattr /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev/urandom
----i----------------- /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev/urandom
Here it is. Nice. After changing immutable bits we'll be able to retry removing container itself or any of its files. Finally
user#server:~$ sudo chattr -i /var/lib/docker/overlay2/3670d1e338eaf11b8fc7ada95a91995417fa3bb4ac1c36928c3c4195525988d4/diff/var/spool/postfix/dev/random
user#server:~$ docker ps -a|grep ‘Dead|Removal’|sed -e 's/\s.*$//'|xargs docker rm
896c259600c9
vou a la.
What is the Docker way to clean up all stopped Docker containers but retain data-only containers?
docker rm $(docker ps -qa -f status=exited) removes these too!
How to clean up the according images?
In general there is no definitive way to distinguish data-only from other containers. If you wish them to survive your cleansing, you could probably design a certain name scheme and have more elaborate scripts that wouldn't remote containers with name, say, starting with data-.
Following Mykolas proposal I introduced a naming convention requiring all data-only containers to be suffixed by -data.
To remove all stopped containers, except those named *-data:
docker ps -a -f status=exited | grep -v '\-data *$'| awk '{if(NR>1) print $1}' | xargs -r docker rm
To remove all unused images afterwards:
docker rmi $(docker images -qa -f dangling=true)
(the images used by the data-only containers are retained)
May be you can, in the docker run command of all your data-only container add a -e "type=data-only", and then filter based on this criteria, either with a grep or with a docker inspect example, I start a container with sudo docker run -it -e type=data-only ubuntu bash
root#f7e9ea4efbd9:/# and then sudo docker inspect -f "{{ .Config.Env }}" f7e shows
[type=data-only PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin]