Error: name X is already in use by container Y

[orodbhen]

While using docker-py in two cron jobs, create_container() in one of them produced the error message:

APIError: 409 Client Error: Conflict ("{"message":"Conflict. The name \"/temp_cont\" is already in use by container <HASH>. You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name."}") 

Obviously, this was caused by using the same name for the temporary container in both jobs. However, the container doesn't exist anymore and I still get the error when running only one of the jobs manually. In fact, I even tried using a different name. So I'm not trying to name it "temp_cont" anymore, but it thinks I am. It seems to be caching the previous command somewhere.

I'm only seeing this issue using docker-py, and not using docker create or docker run from the command line. docker ps --all doesn't show a container with that hash, and it's not in /var/lib/docker/containers.

Also see the related issue in the docker repo.

[orodbhen]

Turns out this was a red herring caused by my error logging framework. Closing.

[AymanRbati]

i have the same issue when i use then name attribute :
appContainer = client.containers.run(
image=imageTag,
remove=True,
stdout=False,
stderr=True,
name="appcontainer"
network_mode="host",
volumes=volumes,
privileged=True,
command=command
)