# Cannot rebuild following site failure: "postgres already running"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-rebuild-following-site-failure-postgres-already-running/24102>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 16, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-rebuild-following-site-failure-postgres-already-running/24102 "2015-01-16T22:06:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 12

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-rebuild-following-site-failure-postgres-already-running/24102/12 "2015-09-16T20:26:01Z")

</div>

> [@oblio](#):
>
> postgres already running stop container

What does

```plaintext
docker ps

```

return?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-rebuild-following-site-failure-postgres-already-running/24102)._