A container stucks with CREATED state, and nothing can be done with it

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Hi,
I’m having a problem with containers which occasionally stuck in “created” state:

fe6f02ec9fb8 a8237729a802 "my_command" 2 days ago Created my_container

I cannot do anything with it, literally.
docker rm -f, docker logs fe6f02ec9fb8 commands don’t work, they just hang without any action and no output.
Also docker container prune --force has no effect and the container still exists.

After my investigation I realized, that the problem is with:

root 27982 29598 0 Jan25 ? 00:00:15 docker-untar /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/5ebfd46f44cb0e5c5a33bccdd96438914a1d8b375d6aea0a168877795d526b9c/tmp/local_files

Killing this process unfortunatelly doesn’t fix the problem, and restart of Docker’s daemon is required - which is an action I want to avoid on my production server, but because of that it is needed 1-2 times per week. That’s not good.

After Docker restart the container’s state is changed (to “Removing” AFAIR, I can’t confirm it now), but still cannot be removed until I unmount /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/5ebfd46f44cb0e5c5a33bccdd96438914a1d8b375d6aea0a168877795d526b9c. Then I’m able to remove this dangling container.

What can I do to avoid Docker restarts? Is this a bug in Docker?

Thanks in advance for your help.

$ docker version
Client:
 Version:           18.06.0-ce
 API version:       1.38
 Go version:        go1.10.3
 Git commit:        0ffa825
 Built:             Wed Jul 18 19:11:02 2018
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:          18.06.0-ce
  API version:      1.38 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.10.3
  Git commit:       0ffa825
  Built:            Wed Jul 18 19:09:05 2018
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false