# Can't delete container while rancher agent is running

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [October 26, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773 "2015-10-26T09:11:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jimmypk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jimmypk](https://forums.suse.com/u/jimmypk)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773/1 "2015-10-26T09:11:33Z")

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I have 2 servers:

- 1st install Ubuntu + Rancher Server
- 2nd install Ubuntu + Rancher Agent + my app

2nd server is running many container. Sometime, I stop and delete some container to deploy new version of application, and it show error  
sudo docker rm -f 4a6acc834b6c  
Error response from daemon: Cannot destroy container 4a6acc834b6c: Driver aufs failed to remove root filesystem 4a6acc834b6c82133c885ba97589816ac77e961f7b56bd5bd4cab822309542b6: rename /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/4a6acc834b6c82133c885ba97589816ac77e961f7b56bd5bd4cab822309542b6 /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/4a6acc834b6c82133c885ba97589816ac77e961f7b56bd5bd4cab822309542b6-removing: device or resource busy  
Error: failed to remove containers: [4a6acc834b6c]

If I delete on website of rancher server, it’s ok. Or I must run the following command before I can delelte it:  
sudo umount -l $(grep ‘aufs’ /proc/mounts | awk ‘{print$2}’ | sort -r)

Why rancher agent deny deleting container?

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773/2 "2015-11-02T19:34:41Z")

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This is an old docker issue and not a Rancher/rancher agent issue.

> <https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/9665>
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> I don't think I saw this under docker 1.3.x on aufs (boot2docker on OSX), though I have with devicemapper on centos...

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**Author:** ![jimmypk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jimmypk](https://forums.suse.com/u/jimmypk)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773/3 "2015-11-05T02:23:04Z")

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I use docker version 1.8.3

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773/4 "2015-11-05T04:04:34Z")

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Yep, still an issue with Docker as the issue is open and people are still reporting issues with it on using Docker v0.1.9-rc3.

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**Author:** ![jimmypk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jimmypk](https://forums.suse.com/u/jimmypk)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773/5 "2015-11-05T05:58:56Z")

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> [@jimmypk](#):
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> If I delete on website of rancher serv

But why can I delete without error on Rancher’s website?

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**Author:** ![tompson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/tompson/32/1157_2.png) [@tompson](https://forums.suse.com/u/tompson)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cant-delete-container-while-rancher-agent-is-running/773/6 "2016-04-05T11:39:33Z")

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I still got this problem with

```
% docker version !10001
Client:
 Version: 1.10.1
 API version: 1.22
 Go version: go1.5.3
 Git commit: 9e83765
 Built: Thu Feb 11 19:27:08 2016
 OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Server:
 Version: 1.10.1
 API version: 1.22
 Go version: go1.5.3
 Git commit: 9e83765
 Built: Thu Feb 11 19:27:08 2016
 OS/Arch: linux/amd64
```