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I am trying to delete kind cluster using.

kind delete cluster --name samples

And I got error after waiting for 15 min.

Deleting cluster "samples" ...
ERROR: failed to delete cluster "samples": failed to delete nodes: command "docker rm -f -v samples-control-plane" failed with error: exit status 1
Command Output: Error response from daemon: removal of container samples-control-plane is already in progress

But this is the only command I ran to delete, not before.

So tried to delete the container of kind cluster using.

docker ps

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                  COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS
  NAMES
5d0fa7222662   postgres:latest        "docker-entrypoint.s…"   51 minutes ago   Up 51 minutes   0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp, :::5432->5432/tcp   postgres_database
e6acb3781680   kindest/node:v1.21.1   "/usr/local/bin/entr…"   33 hours ago     Up 2 hours      127.0.0.1:44151->6443/tcp
  samples-control-plane

And tried deleting stopping it first.

docker stop e6

But stuck there for almost an hour but no response till now.

So I pressed ctrl+c and ran the command with -t.

docker stop e6 -t 2

Same result, stuck there and kept for 3 hours and more, but still there only. How to delete this?

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The problem you described most likely has to do with the docker bug. There are many threads on github related to this situation:

that looks like a docker bug, there was at least one previous bug like this where containers would get in a partially removed state and the only fix was manually removing them w/o docker. looking for current issues upstream.

Potentally fiexed in this topic.

Hm, I don't think this is a docker-compose issue. However, the way I would proceed is

  1. Stop the docker daemon (sudo service docker stop)
  2. Remove the remaining container files sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/containers/9adaaacc30d3<TAB>
  3. Start the docker daemon (sudo service docker start).

Solution / workaround:

Try to restart the docker daemon and do a docker system prune -a.

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my environment:
windows 10 + wsl2 + ubuntu 20
the following worked for me

kind delete clusters CLUSTERNAME
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    This worked also on linux even if it's not in the official documentation of kind. The suggested kind delete cluster --name <clustername> from the documentation did not delete the docker containers. This one did.
    – DimiDak
    Oct 11, 2021 at 12:06

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