Container not starting after creation

Ubuntu: 14.04 (x64) docker.io: 0.9.1~dfsg1-2 ( docker-py: 0.4.0 (installed via pip)

I’m trying to start a container with docker-py, but c.start(…) only returns None. This is the test-script I’ve been using:

import docker
from pprint import pprint

c = docker.Client(base_url='unix://var/run/docker.sock',
          version="1.10",
          timeout=20)
c.version()
print("Images:")
print("======")
pprint(c.images())
my_container = c.create_container('ubuntu', '/bin/bash')


print("my_container:")
print("============")
pprint(my_container)

print("------------------------")
print("trying to start %s" % (my_container['Id'], ))
erg = c.start(my_container['Id'])
print("erg: %s" % (erg, ))

And this is my output. Am I missing something?

[ColinHuang]

You have to set tty=True, stdin_open=True, parameters when create a new container.

[fkromer]

I am using tty=True and stdin_open=True …

import docker
client = docker.from_env()
rcappdb = client.containers.run('rcapplication_database:latest', command='rcapplication_database_create /database new.db', tty=True, stdin_open=True, detach=True)
rcappdb.exec_run(['rcapplication_database_devserver', '/database', 'new.db']) # is the container not running here for at least 3 seconds?
(some Traceback)
APIError: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error ("Container 9707dbaed711af4fee65981416e22773d5f281d76666e32ca8fbdc6b3aeecc37 is not running")

… but I have still the problem that the container goes into exit after 3 seconds?

❯ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                            COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                         PORTS               NAMES
9707dbaed711        rcapplication_database:latest    "rcapplication_dat..."   4 seconds ago       Exited (0) 1 second ago                            brave_davinci