apple / apple/container

[Bug]: Cannot Stop or Uninstall Container

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Description

### I have done the following

- [x] I have searched the existing issues
- [ ] If possible, I've reproduced the issue using the 'main' branch of this project

### Steps to reproduce

Cannot stop container service or uninstall it.

─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] bash uninstall-container.sh -d
`container` is still running. Please ensure the service is stopped by running `container system stop`
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] sudo bash uninstall-container.sh -d
`container` is still running. Please ensure the service is stopped by running `container system stop`
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] container system stop
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: stopTimeoutSeconds=5 [container] stopping containers
buildkit
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: [container] waiting for containers to exit
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/501/com.apple.container.apiserver [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/501/com.apple.container.container-network-vmnet.default [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/501/com.apple.container.container-core-images [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/501/com.apple.container.apiserver [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:25-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/501/com.apple.container.container-runtime-linux.buildkit [container] stopping service
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] sudo bash uninstall-container.sh -d
`container` is still running. Please ensure the service is stopped by running `container system stop`
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] sudo container system stop
2025-11-07T20:54:34-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: stopTimeoutSeconds=5 [container] stopping containers
buildkit
2025-11-07T20:54:34-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: [container] waiting for containers to exit
2025-11-07T20:54:34-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.apiserver [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:34-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.container-network-vmnet.default [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:34-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.container-core-images [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:34-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.apiserver [container] stopping service
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] sudo bash uninstall-container.sh -d
`container` is still running. Please ensure the service is stopped by running `container system stop`
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] ps aux | grep comtainer
james 76903 0.0 0.0 435300416 1344 s000 S+ 8:54PM 0:00.01 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox comtainer
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] sudo container system stop
2025-11-07T20:54:48-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: stopTimeoutSeconds=5 [container] stopping containers
buildkit
2025-11-07T20:54:48-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: [container] waiting for containers to exit
2025-11-07T20:54:48-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.apiserver [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:48-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.container-network-vmnet.default [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:48-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.container-core-images [container] stopping service
2025-11-07T20:54:48-0600 info com.apple.container.cli: label=user/0/com.apple.container.apiserver [container] stopping service
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] sudo bash uninstall-container.sh -d
`container` is still running. Please ensure the service is stopped by running `container system stop`
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] container ls -a
ID IMAGE OS ARCH STATE ADDR
buildkit ghcr.io/apple/container-builder-shim/builder:0.6.0 linux arm64 stopped
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:54]
└─[$] container rm buildkit
buildkit
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:55]
└─[$] sudo bash uninstall-container.sh -d
`container` is still running. Please ensure the service is stopped by running `container system stop`
┌─[james@BluePint] - [/tmp/container/scripts] - [Fri Nov 07, 20:55]
└─[$] container ls -a
ID IMAGE OS ARCH STATE ADDR

### Current behavior

Cannot stop or uninstall service to upgrade.
Tried above commands and all failed. Container still installed.
Tried killing all processes named 'container' in Activity monitor. uninstall script still failed.

Cannot remove or uninstall container.

### Expected behavior

I expect uninstall-container.sh can uninstall the container service, but it cannot. It only provides suggestions that do not actually work.

### Environment

```markdown
- OS: macos 26.01
- Xcode:
- Container: container CLI version 0.4.1 (build: release, commit: 4ac18b5)
```

### Relevant log output

```shell
N/A
```

### Code of Conduct

- [x] I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

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