problem running the core+horizon container in standalone mode

Question

I can start a standalone container with this command:

sudo docker run --rm -it -p "8000:8000" -v "/home/maxou/stellar:/opt/stellar" --name stellar stellar/quickstart --standalone

I can call rest commands on horizon, and when I log into the container, I see all the processes running, supervisord shows:

root@aba039d92900:/# supervisorctl 
horizon                          RUNNING   pid 154, uptime 0:08:08
postgresql                       RUNNING   pid 152, uptime 0:08:08
stellar-core                     RUNNING   pid 153, uptime 0:08:08

I then terminate the interactive container (CTRL+C)

and launch the container in background mode:

sudo docker run -d -p "8000:8000" -v "/home/maxou/stellar:/opt/stellar"  --name stellar stellar/quickstart --standalone
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Then when I try to log into it, I get a "container not running" error:

sudo docker exec -it stellar /bin/bash
Error response from daemon: Container a2d8d906f7aa52644e215f336e1099441b37090b773fe6745794afc4e0f31d6c is not running

docker ps tells me that the container exited right after starting:

sudo docker ps -a 
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS                          PORTS               NAMES
a2d8d906f7aa        stellar/quickstart   "/init -- /start --s…"   About a minute ago   Exited (0) About a minute ago                       stellar

What is wrong ? I would like to run the container as a service, with all the stellar services always running

Update

If I run this command as suggested by a responder:

docker run -dit -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=stellar --restart always -v "/home/maxou/tstellar:/opt/stellar" -p "8000:8000" --name stellar stellar/quickstart --standalone 
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Things seem to function properly:

root@fecbf92650ea:/# supervisorctl 
horizon                          RUNNING   pid 158, uptime 0:00:11
postgresql                       RUNNING   pid 156, uptime 0:00:11
stellar-core                     RUNNING   pid 157, uptime 0:00:11

Now, if I restart the container with docker restart stellar

things get broken:

root@fecbf92650ea:/# supervisorctl 
unix:///var/run/supervisor.sock refused connection
supervisor> 

If I start the container with the console attached, I see this

docker start -a stellar 
running `/start --standalone'
pids are [6]

Starting Stellar Quickstart

mode: persistent
network: standalone (Standalone Network ; February 2017)
postgres: config directory exists, skipping copy
supervisor: config directory exists, skipping copy
stellar-core: config directory exists, skipping copy
horizon: config directory exists, skipping copy
postgres: already initialized
core: already initialized
Waiting for postgres to be available...
postgres: up
init-core-scp: failed!

2020-02-27T20:48:20.520 <startup> [default INFO] Config from /opt/stellar/core/etc/stellar-core.cfg
2020-02-27T20:48:20.521 <startup> [default INFO] RUN_STANDALONE enabled in configuration file - node will not function properly with most networks
2020-02-27T20:48:20.521 <startup> [default INFO] Using QUORUM_SET: {
   "t" : 1,
   "v" : [ "self" ]
}

ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 753) <ERROR> Bad file [stellar-core.2020.02.27-20:48:20.log]
    : Permission denied [13]ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 1813) <ERROR> Setting [TO_FILE] of [TRACE] to FALSE
ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 1813) <ERROR> Setting [TO_FILE] of [DEBUG] to FALSE
ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 1813) <ERROR> Setting [TO_FILE] of [FATAL] to FALSE
ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 1813) <ERROR> Setting [TO_FILE] of [ERROR] to FALSE
ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 1813) <ERROR> Setting [TO_FILE] of [VERBOSE] to FALSE
ERROR FROM EASYLOGGING++ (LINE: 1813) <ERROR> Setting [TO_FILE] of [INFO] to FALSE
...
...
...
2020-02-27T20:48:20.534 GCTI6 [Database INFO] Connecting to: postgresql://dbname=core host=localhost user=stellar password=********
2020-02-27T20:48:20.544 GCTI6 [SCP INFO] LocalNode::LocalNode@GCTI6 qSet: d05a3b
2020-02-27T20:48:20.544 GCTI6 [default INFO] Application destructing
2020-02-27T20:48:20.544 GCTI6 [default INFO] Application destroyed
2020-02-27T20:48:20.545 GCTI6 [default FATAL] Got an exception: Unable to create bucket directory: buckets [CommandLine.cpp:1015]
2020-02-27T20:48:20.545 GCTI6 [default FATAL] Please report this bug along with this log file if this was not expected [CommandLine.cpp:1016]
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Answer 1

This is kinda old question, but can be of help to others.

For what you want to do, you need to remove current container with docker rm stellar to clear stellar namespace or just use a different name.

Then, for starting a persistent stellar node, run

docker run -dit --restart always -v "/str:/opt/stellar" -p "8000:8000" --name stellar stellar/quickstart --standalone

-dit is detached interactive TTY. It will run in the background as daemon and container can be connected to with docker container attach ... and exited with CTRL + P + Q. --restart always will make sure that whatever happens to the container, it will be restarted, even if you intentionally close it.