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Getting error "The container name is already in use by container "93b7…" (docker ps gives nothing)

I’m trying to run postgres docker:

docker run --name some-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=123456 -d postgres

I’m getting error message:

docker: Error response from daemon: Conflict. The container name "/some-postgres" is already in use by container "93b72872c89cf7497872b0bc0e98d5a91078666945e3ca39ce5cbb36c436b5af". You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name.

I checked with:

sudo docker ps

And there is nothing:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND   CREATED   STATUS    PORTS     NAMES

(Empty)

  1. so, why I’m getting this error message ?
  2. If the container name already exsits, How can I run it ?
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  1. 0

    Try running

    docker ps -a you will see existing container name and remove that using docker rm some-postgres. and run the docker run command again.

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  2. 0

    Check this (shows all containers, includes stopped)

    sudo docker ps -a

    And then delete container

    docker rm CONTAINER
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