moby: [aufs] Unable to delete a container when / partition is mounted

Hi guys,

BUG REPORT INFORMATION

docker version: Client: Version: 1.9.0 API version: 1.21 Go version: go1.4.2 Git commit: 76d6bc9 Built: Tue Nov 3 17:43:42 UTC 2015 OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Server: Version: 1.9.0 API version: 1.21 Go version: go1.4.2 Git commit: 76d6bc9 Built: Tue Nov 3 17:43:42 UTC 2015 OS/Arch: linux/amd64

docker info: Containers: 11 Images: 181 Server Version: 1.9.0 Storage Driver: aufs Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs Backing Filesystem: extfs Dirs: 205 Dirperm1 Supported: false Execution Driver: native-0.2 Logging Driver: json-file Kernel Version: 3.13.0-43-generic Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS CPUs: 1 Total Memory: 987.9 MiB Name: ch-lundi3 ID: CVYX:O4VO:FX57:K7JU:PG6N:DZRV:GXW7:XN2E:4LUO:QSF4:B2YJ:CYRZ WARNING: No swap limit support

uname -a : Linux ch-lundi3 3.13.0-43-generic #72-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce the problem

1- docker run -d --name lafauteaqui -v /:/check:ro ubuntu:14.04 /bin/sh -c ‘while true; do echo la_faute_a_flop; sleep 1; done’ 2- docker run -it --rm ubuntu:14.04 3- docker restart lafauteaqui 4- Try to exit the shell in the container started during step2:

Error deleting container: Error response from daemon: Driver aufs failed to remove root filesystem 3d1e082f48eb875d3f2117342b082e1aca84164bfa7ccf253c53e0dc38f61e77: rename /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/3d1e082f48eb875d3f2117342b082e1aca84164bfa7ccf253c53e0dc38f61e77 /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/3d1e082f48eb875d3f2117342b082e1aca84164bfa7ccf253c53e0dc38f61e77-removing: device or resource busy

Describe the results you received: It should exit gracefully

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 37 (10 by maintainers)

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This happened to me on Ubuntu 14.04 with docker-compose when I attempted to bind mount the volume /dev/log:/dev/log:rw.

$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.8.0, build f3628c7
$ docker --version
Docker version 1.12.0, build 8eab29e
$ docker-compose up
Removing nginx_n0_1
ERROR: Driver aufs failed to remove root filesystem 37e33e150f12e23b95b0b500e7d5743e3f10fe4008547414118f74faa83ea96c: rename /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff/366edeb8a8d864a60160ce1011ce5b91df79f02bfd876fde3b50b80e9aed46eb /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff/366edeb8a8d864a60160ce1011ce5b91df79f02bfd876fde3b50b80e9aed46eb-removing: device or resource busy

ryanlovett on Aug 15, 2016

Same issue with version Docker version 1.10.3, build 20f81dd

Solved unmounting the dir: umount /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/197c9141c021c89569db52218795528ae6621ebeea3cc5403613c97b56fe8720

I’m not sure it’s ok what I did … but it worked! 😉

gtron on May 25, 2016