Docker error cannot delete docker container conflict unable to remove repository reference

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I want to remove the container at Docker  but an error occurs when you want to delete  My next step before removing the container  see the list of existing container  sts Yudi   docker  sudo docker ps -as  CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS                    PORTS               NAMES                  SIZE 78479ffeba5c        ubuntu                bin bash          42 hours ago        Exited  0  42 hours ago                       sharp wescoff          81 B  virtual 187 7 MB  0bd2b54678c7        training webapp      python app py      5 days ago          Exited  0  5 days ago                         backstabbing ritchie   0 B  virtual 323 7 MB  0adbc74a3803        training webapp      python app py      5 days ago          Exited  143  5 days ago                       drunk feynman          0 B  virtual 323 7 MB    one I want to delete the list  namely  training   webapp  but an error that occurred  sts Yudi   docker  sudo docker rmi training webapp Error response from daemon  conflict  unable to remove repository reference  training webapp   must force  - container 0bd2b54678c7 is using its referenced image 54bb4e8718e8 Error  failed to remove images   training webapp    Whether the container is running in the images   Please help

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Noticed this is a 2-years old question  but still want to share my workaround for this particular question  Firstly  run docker container ls -a to list all the containers you have and pinpoint the want you want to delete  Secondly  delete the one with command docker container rm  lt CONTAINER ID gt   If the container is currently running  you should stop it first  run docker container stop  lt CONTAINER ID gt  to gracefully stop the specified container  if it does not stop it for whatever the reason is  alternatively you can run docker container kill  lt CONTAINER ID gt  to force shutdown of the specified container    Thirdly  remove the container by running docker container rm  lt CONTAINER ID gt    Lastly you can run docker image ls -a to view all the images and delete the one you want to by running docker image rm  lt hash gt

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list all your docker images   docker images   list all existed docker containers   docker ps -a   delete all the targeted containers  which is using the image that you want to delete   docker rm  lt container-id gt    delete the targeted image   docker rmi  lt image-name image-tag or image-id gt

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If you have multiples docker containers launched  use this    docker rm   docker ps -aq   It will remove all the current dockers listed in the  ps -aq  command   Source   aaam on https   github com docker docker issues 12487

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First  remove the container names    sudo docker rm backstabbing ritchie   The result    sudo docker rm backstabbing ritchie   backstabbing ritchie   delete the second part  which is listed on the container to be deleted    sudo docker rm drunk feynman    drunk feynman   Second  remove the container    sudo docker rmi training webapp   The result    sudo docker rmi training webapp     Untagged  training webapp latest   Deleted  54bb4e8718e8600d78a5d7c62208c2f13c8caf0e4fe73d2bc0e474e93659c0b5   Deleted  f74dd040041eb4c032d3025fe38ea85de8075992bdce6789b694a44b20feb8de   Deleted  7cbae69141977b99c44dc6957b032ad50c1379124d62b7d7d05ab7329b42348e   Deleted  abb991a4ed5e4cde2d9964aec4cccbe0015ba9cc9838b696e7a32e1ddf4a49bd   Deleted  1952e3bf3d7e8e6a9b1e23bd4142e3c42ff7f4b7925122189704323593fd54ac   Deleted  f95ebd363bf27a7546deced7a41a4099334e37a3d2901fa3817e62bb1ade183f   Deleted  20dd0c75901396d41a7b64d551ff04952084cc3947e66c67bae35759c80da338   Deleted  2505b734adda3720799dde5004302f5edb3f2a2ff71438f6488b530b728ba666   Deleted  2ee0b8f351f753f78f1178000ae37616eb5bf241d4ef041b612d58e1fd2aefdc   Deleted  2ce633e3e9c9bd9e8fe7ade5984d7656ec3fc3994f05a97d5490190ef95bce8d   Deleted  98b15185dba7f85308eb0e21196956bba653cf142b36dc08059b3468a01bf35d   Deleted  515565c29c940355ec886c992231c6019a6cffa17ff1d2abdfc844867c9080c5   Deleted  2880a3395eded9b748c94d27767e1e202f8d7cb06f1e40e18d1b1c77687aef77   Check the continer      sudo docker ps -as   CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS                    PORTS               NAMES                  SIZE   78479ffeba5c        ubuntu                bin bash          43 hours ago        Exited  0  43 hours ago                       sharp wescoff          81 B  virtual 187 7 MB

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you can use -f option to force delete the containers    sudo docker rmi -f training webapp  You may stop the containers using sudo docker stop training webapp before deleting

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Remove just the containers associated with a specific image  docker ps -a   grep training webapp   cut -d     -f 1   xargs docker rm         ps -a  list all containers   grep training webapp   filter out everything but the containers started from the training webapp image   cut -d     -f 1  list only the container ids  first field when delimited by space    xargs docker rm   send the container id list output to the docker rm command to remove the container

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Remove docker images    List all containers  docker container ls   List all images  docker image ls   Stop container by container id  docker container stop  lt container id gt    Remove container by container id  docker container rm  lt container id gt    If don t want stop and remove  can force remove  docker container rm -f  lt container id gt    Remove image  docker image rm  lt image id gt    Done

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There is a difference between docker images and docker containers  Check this SO Question  In short  a container is a runnable instance of an image  which is why you cannot delete an image if there is a running container from that image  You just need to delete the container first  docker ps -a                  Lists containers  and tells you which images they are spun from   docker images                 Lists images   docker rm  lt container id gt       Removes a stopped container  docker rm -f  lt container id gt    Forces the removal of a running container  uses SIGKILL   docker rmi  lt image id gt          Removes an image                                Will fail if there is a running instance of that image i e  container  docker rmi -f  lt image id gt       Forces removal of image even if it is referenced in multiple repositories                                 i e  same image id given multiple names tags                                Will still fail if there is a docker container referencing image  Update for Docker 1 13   Since Jan 2017   In Docker 1 13  we regrouped every command to sit under the logical object it   s interacting with  Basically  above commands could also be rewritten  more clearly  as  docker container ls -a docker image ls docker container rm  lt container id gt  docker image rm  lt image id gt   Also  if you want to remove EVERYTHING you could use  docker system prune -a   WARNING  This will remove     all stopped containers all networks not used by at least one container all unused images all build cache

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If you want to cleanup docker images and containers  CAUTION  this will flush everything  stop all containers  docker stop   docker ps -a -q    remove all containers  docker rm   docker ps -a -q    remove all images  docker rmi -f   docker images -a -q

[docker] Docker error cannot delete docker container, conflict: unable to remove repository reference

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