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Restart policy unless-stopped no longer working (since 4.42.0) #7744

@simonberger

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@simonberger

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I had several issues since 4.42.0 which has been sorted now. Since the start of testing the versions the policy unless-stopped does no longer work in all our services and this is still the case in 4.44.2.
I wondered why I cannot find any report of this issue and revisited my setup, but it is the same on all containers with different configurations. Is it working for others?

I changed some to always which is still working, but we still want the possibility to manually shut down others.

Reproduce

  1. Run a container with restart: unless-stopped
  2. Shutdown Docker
  3. Start again - container is stopped

Expected behavior

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docker version

Client:
 Version:           28.3.2
 API version:       1.51
 Go version:        go1.24.5
 Git commit:        578ccf6
 Built:             Wed Jul  9 16:12:57 2025
 OS/Arch:           darwin/arm64
 Context:           desktop-linux

Server: Docker Desktop 4.44.2 (202017)
 Engine:
  Version:          28.3.2
  API version:      1.51 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:       go1.24.5
  Git commit:       e77ff99
  Built:            Wed Jul  9 16:13:56 2025
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.7.27
  GitCommit:        05044ec0a9a75232cad458027ca83437aae3f4da
 runc:
  Version:          1.2.5
  GitCommit:        v1.2.5-0-g59923ef
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

docker info

Client:
 Version:    28.3.2
 Context:    desktop-linux
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  ai: Docker AI Agent - Ask Gordon (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.9.11
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-ai
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.26.1-desktop.1
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
  cloud: Docker Cloud (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.4.18
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-cloud
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v2.39.1-desktop.1
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
  debug: Get a shell into any image or container (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  0.0.42
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-debug
  desktop: Docker Desktop commands (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.0
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-desktop
  extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.29
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-extension
  init: Creates Docker-related starter files for your project (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.4.0
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-init
  mcp: Docker MCP Plugin (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.13.0
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-mcp
  model: Docker Model Runner (EXPERIMENTAL) (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.1.36
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-model
  offload: Docker Offload (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.4.18
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-offload
  sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc.)
    Version:  0.6.0
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-sbom
  scout: Docker Scout (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.18.3
    Path:     /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-scout
WARNING: Plugin "/Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-dev" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /Users/user/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-dev: no such file or directory

Server:
 Containers: 117
  Running: 17
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 100
 Images: 1137
 Server Version: 28.3.2
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: false
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
 CDI spec directories:
  /etc/cdi
  /var/run/cdi
 Discovered Devices:
  cdi: docker.com/gpu=webgpu
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 05044ec0a9a75232cad458027ca83437aae3f4da
 runc version: v1.2.5-0-g59923ef
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns
 Kernel Version: 6.10.14-linuxkit
 Operating System: Docker Desktop
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: aarch64
 CPUs: 10
 Total Memory: 15.6GiB
 Name: docker-desktop
 ID: e74a1e7d-7ce3-446c-bdfe-acd096583874
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 HTTP Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 HTTPS Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 No Proxy: hubproxy.docker.internal
 Labels:
  com.docker.desktop.address=unix:///Users/user/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker-cli.sock
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  hubproxy.docker.internal:5555
  ::1/128
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

WARNING: DOCKER_INSECURE_NO_IPTABLES_RAW is set

Diagnostics ID

6C233321-53F5-42B6-92CB-A3FCC5FD3B74/20250818103007

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