# Can't stop container

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-stop-container/38832>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-stop-container/38832 "2016-02-01T15:01:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-stop-container/38832/2 "2016-02-01T15:16:58Z")

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Reboot your machine so Discourse is running normally.

Run `docker ps` to get the container ID. If there are multiple, you need to find the right one. Then, run `docker kill <id>` to kill the container. While stopping is broken, killing works – so violence _does_ help here 🙂

Then, simply rebuild as usual.

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