Network is already using parent interface

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It means you previously created tha network with the id “ce3efa4b0a15”. Now Docker thinks that network still exists. Here is what I would try in addition to what you have already tried:

  • Restart the docker daemon
  • Check if you have an other installation. For example a rootless docker. I am not sure you could create macvlan with that, but it is worth a try to check it.
  • Since you wrote you have already deleted all networks, it shouldn’t be a problem, but maybe Docker still has the information about that network due to some inconsistent file writing.
    • First, you should restart your machine unless you have already done it too.
    • Create a backup of your docker data folder (/var/lib/docker by default) and remove local-kv.db from that folder (/var/lib/docker/network/files/local-kv.db by default) and restart the Docker daemon again. This file is where the information about docker networks are stored. If you want to read it, I created a tutorial not long ago. Search for docker-data-db-reader.sh

If none of the above solutions work, tell me here and I try to find something out (or anyone else :slight_smile: ).

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