# Error in launching containers

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/error-in-launching-containers/1499>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-in-launching-containers/1499 "2020-02-05T04:58:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![pei.cei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@pei.cei](https://hub.mender.io/u/pei.cei)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-in-launching-containers/1499/1 "2020-02-05T04:58:39Z")

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Hi,

I have set up the production mode of mender. These days it was fine. I had added around 500 simulated devices. After a week server had run out of disk memory. So, I tried to cleanup some docker images and stopped containers. But, after this when started the server with ./run up command I am getting this error. Help me understand what I have broken in my setup?

ERROR: for mender-elasticsearch Cannot create container for service mender-elasticsearch: open /var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-elasticsearch-db/\_data: no such file or directory

ERROR: for minio Cannot start service minio: OCI runtime create failed: container\_linux.go:345: starting container process caused “process\_linux.go:430: container init caused “rootfs\_linux.go:58:  
mounting \”/var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-artifacts/\_data\” to rootfs \"/var/lib/docker/overlay2/4f0b102a6c9d184bb3c1910c9c73bd55811aedfcd5f4ada5de496492df29e1d9/merged\" at \"/export\" caused \“stat /var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-artifacts/\_data: no such file or directory\”"": unknown

Why /var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-redis-db/\_data folder are not there? need to create manually? have removed accidentally?

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**Author:** ![0lmi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/0lmi/32/133_2.png) [@0lmi](https://hub.mender.io/u/0lmi)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-in-launching-containers/1499/2 "2020-02-05T15:53:12Z")

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Hi @pei.cei

Looks like you deleted docker volumes which was created during [installation](https://docs.mender.io/2.2/administration/production-installation#persistent-storage).

I’m able to reproduce this as the following:

```auto
# docker inspect menderproduction_mender-elasticsearch_1 | jq '.[].Mounts[].Source'
"/var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-elasticsearch-db/_data"
# docker stop menderproduction_mender-elasticsearch_1
menderproduction_mender-elasticsearch_1
# rm -rf /var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-elasticsearch-db/
# docker start menderproduction_mender-elasticsearch_1
Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:346: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:449: container init caused \"rootfs_linux.go:58: mounting \\\"/var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-elasticsearch-db/_data\\\" to rootfs \\\"/var/lib/docker/overlay2/ef51ac8aab3da876f1066ef5357d652abbce4411db08d59ac759128044cfca1a/merged\\\" at \\\"/usr/share/elasticsearch/data\\\" caused \\\"stat /var/lib/docker/volumes/mender-elasticsearch-db/_data: no such file or directory\\\"\"": unknown

```

`docker volume create` commands from installation manual created folders in `/var/lib/docker/volumes` and if you manually delete some of them then the data are lost. If loosing data from `mender-elasticsearch-db` and `mender-redis-db` volumes is not critical but without data from `mender-db` and `mender-artifacts` volumes it’s impossible to restore previous service’s state.