Docker Run command hangs without any error

Question

I have been working with docker in Windows Server 2016 only for the last two weeks. I am trying to run a html file using

microsoft/windowsservercore (docker image)

After I execute the command

docker run -it --name CoreServerCMD microsoft/windowsservercore cmd.exe

the execution hangs and do not return.

please help this is image reference:

Error

Solution 1

This is not an error: the docker image is being downloaded from the docker hub. According to https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/windowsservercore/tags/ the image is 5GB large, so this is a long time to download. I suggest that you wait at least an hour, depending on your broadband.

Update after feedback: it seems this is not precisely the issue the author encountered - the provided answer works for other OS than Windows. See comments for more details.

Solution 2

You are running the 'docker run' command with '-it' flag. You need to include '-d' flag instead of '-it'.

Solution 3

Adding to Avik Aggarwal answer, even with -d flag didn't work for me. Increasing Docker's RAM (resources) in Settings solved the problem.

Comments

[gesellix]

Looking at the provided Screenshot (at the Error link), the image is already downloaded.

[Yogesh H Shenoy]

Yes the image is already downloaded and it is listing in my local repository. I can see it with the command "docker images".

[Michael Mallett]

This is not the correct answer. The docker image is already downloaded, having the same problem with nginx (which is not large at all).

[Roberto Andrade]

Same issue here, I made sure to pull the image first before issuing the docker run command, it's stuck trying to run it as well.