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Restarting (1) Docker container keeps restarting (Restarting (1) x seconds ago)
Docker · layer 6, Platform & cloud
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systemd: Start request repeated too quickly / service hit its start limit
The service crashed and restarted several times in a short period, so systemd stopped trying (StartLimitBurst).
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...
Your app threw an error on startup; nodemon is waiting for a file change to retry.
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
A static initializer (static block or static field) threw an exception while the class was loading.
Job for mysql.service failed because the control process exited with error code
The MySQL/MariaDB service failed to start — the real reason is in the MySQL error log.
HTTP Error 500.30 - ASP.NET Core app failed to start
IIS/Azure’s ASP.NET Core Module launched your app but it crashed during startup.
Error response from daemon: Container X is not running
You tried to exec into or interact with a container that has stopped.
Azure Container Registry: unauthorized: authentication required, visit https://aka.ms/acr/authorization (AKS ErrImagePull 401)
Pulling/pushing to ACR wasn’t authenticated — Docker not logged in, or AKS/App Service lacks AcrPull on the registry.
FATAL: the database system is starting up
PostgreSQL is still starting (or recovering) and not accepting connections yet.
Cloud Run: The user-provided container failed to start and listen on the port defined provided by the PORT=8080 environment variable
Cloud Run started your container, but nothing listened on $PORT within the startup timeout — the app crashed, listens on another…
Kubernetes: CrashLoopBackOff
The container starts, crashes (or exits), and Kubernetes keeps restarting it with increasing back-off delays.
Conflict. The container name "/x" is already in use by container …
A container (running or stopped) already has that name; Docker won’t create a second one with the same name.
FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid" already exists — Is another postmaster running in data directory?
PostgreSQL won’t start because a stale postmaster.pid file remains (or another instance really is running).
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spec.ports[0].nodePort: Invalid value: 80: provided port is not in the valid range. The range of valid ports is 30000-32767
A NodePort Service asked for a port outside the cluster’s NodePort range (default 30000–32767).
Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code
systemd tried to start the service, but its start command failed. The real reason is in the service’s status/journal.
Failed to start x.service: Unit x.service not found
systemd has no unit with that name — the package isn’t installed, the name differs on this distro, or a new unit file wasn’t load…
Error: Cannot find module 'x' (MODULE_NOT_FOUND)
Node can’t resolve the module path — the package isn’t installed, or a relative path/extension is wrong.
Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::3000
Another process is already listening on that port.
npm ERR! could not determine executable to run
npx couldn’t find a binary to run for that package.
LOG: could not bind IPv4 address "0.0.0.0": Address already in use — Is another postmaster already running on port 5432?
Another process (often a second PostgreSQL install or a container) already listens on 5432.
Docker container exits immediately (Exited (0) / Exited (1) right after start)
The container started and its main process finished at once, so the container stopped — Docker containers only live as long as PI…
Pod status Init:CrashLoopBackOff / Init:Error
An init container keeps failing, so the pod’s main containers never start.
MySQL ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
The client couldn’t reach the MySQL server — it isn’t running, or the client is looking for the socket/port in the wrong place.
HTTP 500 Internal Server Error
The server hit an unexpected condition — usually an unhandled exception or misconfiguration in the application.
Azure App Service: ":( Application Error" / container didn’t respond to HTTP pings
App Service started your app but it crashed or never listened on the expected port.
InvalidOperationException: Unable to resolve service for type 'X' while attempting to activate 'Y'
ASP.NET Core’s dependency injection container can’t build Y because one of its constructor dependencies (X) was never registered.
Docker: Bind for 0.0.0.0:80 failed: port is already allocated
Another container or host process already publishes that host port.
ECS task stopped: CannotPullContainerError: pull image manifest has been retried ... / ref pull has been retried
The ECS task couldn’t pull its image — no network route to the registry, missing ECR permissions, or a wrong image tag.
ECS: Essential container in task exited (task keeps stopping)
The main (essential) container stopped, so ECS stopped the whole task and the service keeps replacing it.
Kubernetes: ImagePullBackOff / ErrImagePull
The node can’t pull the container image — wrong name/tag, missing registry credentials, or registry unreachable.
npm ERR! code EROFS — EROFS: read-only file system
npm tried to write to a read-only location (read-only container filesystem, mounted volume, or system path).
denied: Your authorization token has expired. Reauthenticate and try again. (Amazon ECR)
Docker’s login to Amazon ECR has expired — ECR tokens last 12 hours, so pushes and pulls fail until you log in again.
FATAL: data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" has invalid permissions — Permissions should be u=rwx (0700) or u=rwx,g=rx (0750).
PostgreSQL refuses to start because the data directory is too open or owned by the wrong user.
FATAL: database files are incompatible with server — The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 15, which is not compatible with this version 16
A newer (or older) PostgreSQL major version was started on an existing data directory.
exec /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: exec format error
The container tried to run a binary built for a different CPU architecture (arm64 vs amd64) — or a script with a broken shebang /…
OCI runtime create failed: exec: "x": executable file not found in $PATH
The command you asked the container to run doesn’t exist inside the image — wrong command name, a shell that isn’t installed (bas…
exec /docker-entrypoint.sh: no such file or directory (CRLF line endings / missing interpreter)
The entrypoint file exists, but the kernel can’t run it — almost always Windows CRLF line endings in the script, or a shebang poi…
no space left on device (Docker / Linux)
The disk (or inode table) is full — Docker images, build cache, logs and volumes are common culprits.
Kubernetes: OOMKilled (exit code 137)
The container used more memory than its limit, and the kernel killed it.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
A program accessed memory it wasn’t allowed to, and the kernel killed it with SIGSEGV (exit code 139).
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
The docker CLI can’t talk to the Docker engine — it isn’t running, or your user can’t access the socket.
Error response from daemon: No such container
The container name or ID you used doesn’t exist on this Docker host — it was removed, has another name, or you’re talking to a di…
Docker container is unhealthy (health check failing)
The container is running, but its HEALTHCHECK command keeps failing, so Docker (and dependent services) consider it unhealthy.
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