Compose: macvlan: network not found error approximately every 8th "docker-compose up" command

[mkilchhofer]

Hi there

We use macvlan as a 2nd network in a docker container to connect it to the physical network.
Mostly it works fine, but approximately every 8th "docker-compose up" command fails with this message:

(...)
Creating default_orion_1
Creating default_pegasus_1

ERROR: for broho  Cannot start service broho: driver failed revoking external connectivity on endpoint default_broho_1 (4aed7b1bb508a07d3daf074901d011778a153460c1c87a238f2f4d4c08a7519d): network not found: 1e320a2ba090ea6f6b563c421ecc3eda121aa3065cd32c52dc74fb42851d23d6
Encountered errors while bringing up the project.

Network definition of service broho:

    networks:
      - default
      - vehicle

Networks in docker-compose.yaml:

networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: isa-docker
  vehicle:
    external:
      name: isa-vehicle

Configured networks

docker network ls
NETWORK ID          NAME                DRIVER              SCOPE
530780f98c1e        bridge              bridge              local               
825f17b6eb35        host                host                local               
d2c78b4012c0        isa-docker          bridge              local               
1e320a2ba090        isa-vehicle         macvlan             local               
72893e5fdf80        none                null                local

Tested on rhel7.3 with docker 1.12.6 and compose 1.11 and 1.12.0-rc2, compose file version 2 and 2.1:

[root@eddie027 ~]# docker version
Client:
 Version:         1.12.6
 API version:     1.24
 Package version: docker-common-1.12.6-11.el7.x86_64
 Go version:      go1.7.4
 Git commit:      96d83a5/1.12.6
 Built:           Thu Feb 23 11:52:33 2017
 OS/Arch:         linux/amd64

Server:
 Version:         1.12.6
 API version:     1.24
 Package version: docker-common-1.12.6-11.el7.x86_64
 Go version:      go1.7.4
 Git commit:      96d83a5/1.12.6
 Built:           Thu Feb 23 11:52:33 2017
 OS/Arch:         linux/amd64

Is there something I can test to help debugging?
When I remove 'networks' in the service 'broho', and connect this container by "docker network connect isa-vehicle default_broho_1" after compose started the container, it works fine.

[shin-]

Hi Marco,

As far as I can tell, that's a networking issue at the Engine level and should be reported on the docker/docker repo.

[mkilchhofer]

Hi Joffrey,

I thought, because "docker run (...) --network=(..)" does not support multiple networks, it would be a compose issue.
How does compose handle this? When the container is created or when it starts?

[shin-]

Compose connects the container to each network before starting.

Regardless,
driver failed revoking external connectivity on endpoint default_broho_1 (4aed7b1bb508a07d3daf074901d011778a153460c1c87a238f2f4d4c08a7519d): network not found: 1e320a2ba090ea6f6b563c421ecc3eda121aa3065cd32c52dc74fb42851d23d6 is an error message from the engine and denotes an issue at that level.

[mkilchhofer]

Thanks for your estimation. I reported it on the docker/docker repo:
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/32572

[mkilchhofer]

This is solved in docker 1.13 (libnetwork).
See https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/32572

[shin-]

@mkilchhofer Thank you for the update! To remove volumes in docker-compose down, you can use the -v flag.

[mkilchhofer]

Yeah! This flag did the trick, nice :-)
Thank you.