Cascade-deleting a 7-workspace org returned 500 with
"workspace marked removed, but 2 stop call(s) failed — please retry:
stop eeb99b5d-...: force-remove ws-eeb99b5d-607: Error response
from daemon: removal of container ws-eeb99b5d-607 is already in
progress"
even though the DB-side post-condition succeeded (removed_count=7) and
the containers WERE removed shortly after. The fanout fired Stop() on
every workspace concurrently and the orphan sweeper happened to reap
two of them at the same instant, so Docker rejected the second
ContainerRemove with "removal already in progress" — a race-condition
ack, not a real failure. Retrying just races the same in-flight
removal.
The post-condition we care about (the container WILL be gone) is
identical to a successful removal, so Stop() should treat it the
same way it already treats "No such container" — a no-op return nil
that lets the caller proceed with volume cleanup. Real daemon
failures (timeout, EOF, ctx cancel) still surface as errors.
Two pieces:
- New isRemovalInProgress() predicate using the same string-match
approach as isContainerNotFound (docker/docker has no typed
errdef for this; the CLI itself relies on the message).
- Stop() now treats the predicate as success, with a log line
distinct from the not-found path so debugging can tell which
race fired.
Both substrings ("removal of container" + "already in progress") must
match — "already in progress" alone would false-positive on unrelated
operations like image pulls. Truth table pinned in 7 new test cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
