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 had the same problem on a windows host machine and none of the other options here worked for me. I ended up just needing to delete the physical container folder, which was located here:

C:\ProgramData\Docker\containers\[container guid]

I had stopped the docker service first just to be safe and when I restarted it, the broken containers were now gone and I was able to create new ones. I suspect the same will work on a linux host machine, but I do not know where the container folders are kept on that OS.