Docker containers running, but not showing up in docker ps
I am running Ubuntu Server 20.04.2, fresh install. I have an unbound container up and running, also a pihole container.
After a reboot of the host server, Docker doesn't show me any containers at all. And no docker images either.
But the unbound and pihole containers are definitely running in the background. The pihole website is accessible via the hosts IP, and DNS requests from clients are handled without problems.
I have no output from "docker ps", "docker ps -a", "docker images" and "docker stats".
I can also see that the listening ports are blocked by "docker-pr"
Can anybody help me? How do I access those "invisible" containers?
"sudo systemctl restart docker" didn't bring any change, also tried the commands above as root.
$ docker -v
Docker version 20.10.3, build 48d30b5
$ which docker
/usr/bin/docker
$ apt list --installed | grep 'docker'
docker-ce-cli/focal,now 5:20.10.3~3-0~ubuntu-focal amd64 [installed,automatic]
docker-ce-rootless-extras/focal,now 5:20.10.3~3-0~ubuntu-focal amd64 [installed,automatic]
docker-ce/focal,now 5:20.10.3~3-0~ubuntu-focal amd64 [installed]
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.48.2.1 10823 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20200707 1880 latest/stable canonical✓ base
docker 19.03.11 471 latest/stable canonical✓ -
lxd 4.0.2 16099 4.0/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.45.2 8542 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd
$ docker info
Client:
Context: default
Debug Mode: false
Plugins:
app: Docker App (Docker Inc., v0.9.1-beta3)
buildx: Build with BuildKit (Docker Inc., v0.5.1-docker)
Server:
Containers: 0
Running: 0
Paused: 0
Stopped: 0
Images: 0
Server Version: 19.03.11
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 7ad184331fa3e55e52b890ea95e65ba581ae3429
runc version:
init version: fec3683
Security Options:
apparmor
seccomp
Profile: default
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-65-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu Core 16
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 4
Total Memory: 7.69GiB
Name: ubuntu
ID: W56I:F32Q:H7O6:LWFT:AAUC:6QEI:EYOZ:HFJB:IEQ3:T6E7:ZCJG:HSJU
Docker Root Dir: /var/snap/docker/common/var-lib-docker
Debug Mode: false
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false
In your case you have both an apt and snap package of docker installed. Remove the snap package with this command:
sudo snap remove docker
Then you might have to restart your containers (alternatively, reboot your machine).
This can happen from time to time, unfortunately. The only solution I've found is to restart the Docker service with:
$ sudo systemctl restart docker
This will kill all of your running containers but, so long as the policy for them is to auto-start, they'll come back online. If you want to keep the containers running when restarting Docker, this support document has the steps. The only caveat is that you'll need to restart Docker to enable the feature, which will force the containers to restart anyway.