Service continuously restarted

[jcassee]

Probably using shepherd wrong, but Docker is continuously restarting the services that shepherd updates, even when the image has not changed. I am using Docker 17.06.0-ce on Ubuntu 16.04.

What am I doing wrong? Alternatively, anything I can do to help fix or debug the problem further?

Maybe related to moby/moby#34242?

[pdeveltere]

+1. I'm having the same problem, the containers are being recreated every SLEEP_TIME interval, even when the image has not changed.

[djmaze]

Can't reproduce (with 17.06.1-ce).

@jcassee It's probably the bug you mentioned. Which will be fixed in 17.09 AFAICS.

[MetalArend]

The following error shows up in the logs:

Sleeping "5m" before next update
sleep: invalid number '"5m"'

[djmaze]

@MetalArend That seems to be another problem. I can provoke that failure when running with --env SLEEP_TIME='"5m"'. So it looks you (mistakenly) double quoted it?

[MetalArend]

I had the following code in my docker-compose.yml file:

environment:
      - SLEEP_TIME="5m"

Removing the quotes actually solves it.

[pascalandy]

Looks like this is not an issue anymore.

[djmaze]

Okay, closing. Please report back in case this is still a problem.