Running docker container disappears after host reboot; leaving file system behind

[deftdawg]

Last night my Windows host rebooted itself to apply a company pushed update.

Following that restart, the container I had been running disappeared completely from Docker, it's not present in docker ps -a and there are no docker logs <container_id> logs; fortunately the overlay filesystem is still present, so the data is not gone.

The purpose of this issue threefold:

1. Note that this container loss bug occurred
2. Ask is there a workaround to recreate the lost container?
3. let persons who experience this issue to look for any data they care about from the vanished container by the following steps:

docker-machine ssh
sudo su - # change to root
cd /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/overlay2/<container_id>/diff/<sub_folder of what you care about>
# or if you don't know the container id search for a file you created
find /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/overlay2/ | grep file_I_care_about
cp <files_you_care_about> to /c/Users/<Windows user>/Desktop

System specs:
Windows 10 Pro
OS Version: 10.0.17763 N/A Build 17763
Docker version: 18.09.5

[ziplock9000]

It's happened to me 3 times in the last hour while trying to set up Gitlabs-CE on Windows Docker. It gives me absolutely no confidence in this software at all when it can catastrophically evaporate like this.

[50bbx]

I had the same issue with a super simple docker container running a mysql server. docker ps -a doesn't list the container.

[hallicarnassus]

Same here, the images however persist

[ab316]

I am facing the same issue. My specs:

Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 19.03.5
API version: 1.40
Go version: go1.12.12
Git commit: 633a0ea
Built: Wed Nov 13 07:22:37 2019
OS/Arch: windows/amd64
Experimental: false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 19.03.5
API version: 1.40 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.12.12
Git commit: 633a0ea
Built: Wed Nov 13 07:29:19 2019
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: v1.2.10
GitCommit: b34a5c8af56e510852c35414db4c1f4fa6172339
runc:
Version: 1.0.0-rc8+dev
GitCommit: 3e425f80a8c931f88e6d94a8c831b9d5aa481657
docker-init:
Version: 0.18.0
GitCommit: fec3683