Docker container won't start - error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container with id exist

Hi All,

this morning we came to work and noticing that the docker containers we have that house a few production services went down last night. We checked the space and we saw it’s 97% used, so still have some space running in there. We tried looking on a few blogs but couldn’t find anything specific to our issue. Trying to delete, etc. but also can’t do so far because we can’t even start the docker.

so when we started it it gives no error. however when we checked the containers status they are all saying "exited (255)

error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container with id exist: #######: unknown
error: failed to start containers: ###

Please help