Docker: Container keeps on restarting again on again

Question

I today deployed an instance of MediaWiki using the appcontainers/mediawiki docker image, and I now have a new problem for which I cannot find any clue. After trying to atta

Answer 1

This could also be the case if you have created a systemd service that has:

[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker container start -a my_container
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker container stop -t 2 my_container

Answer 2

tl;dr It is restarting with a status code of 127, meaning there is a missing file/library in your container. Starting a fresh container just might fix it.

Explanation:

As far as my understanding of Docker goes, this is what is happening:

1. Container tries to start up. In the process, it tries to access a file/library which does not exist.
2. It exits with a status code of 127, which is explained in this answer.
3. Normally, this is where the container should have completely exited, but it restarts.
4. It restarts because the restart policy must have been set to something other than no (the default), (using either the command line flag --restart or the docker-compose.yml key restart) while starting the container.

Solution: Something might have corrupted your container. Starting a fresh container should ideally do the job.

Answer 3

In my case i removed

Restart=always

added

tty: true

And executed the below command to open shell (daemon process, because docker reads the compose file and stops the container once it reaches the last line of the file).

docker-compose up -d

Answer 4

Try adding these params to your docker yml file

restart: "no"
  restart: always
  restart: on-failure
  restart: unless-stopped
  environment:
    POSTGRES_DB: "db_name"
    POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: "trust"

Final file should look something like this

postgres:
  restart: "no"
  restart: always
  restart: on-failure
  restart: unless-stopped
  image: postgres:latest
  volumes:
    - /data/postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql
  ports:
    - "5432:5432"
  environment:
    POSTGRES_DB: "db_name"
    POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: "trust"

Answer 5

I had forgot Minikube running in background and thats what always restarted them back up