Error: Failed creating instance record: Add instance info to the database: This instance already exists

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Hello.
I am trying to start a container and i receive this

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Error: Failed creating instance record: Add instance info to the database: This instance already exists
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How am i suppose to fix it ?

If i am doing lxc list there isn’ any container

@tomp @stgraber

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This happens only when i execute

sudo lxc launch DetectionSvc DetectionSvc --profile default --profile ip200

from inside a python script with subprocess.Popen()

When i am executing at terminal everything works fine and the container is created.

In fact, the container always created and i am getting this error also when i am trying to launch the container from inside the Python script.

I am confused. Can i somehow clean the database ?

This is the first time that something like this has occured to me.

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command4LXD = [‘lxc’,‘launch’,‘DetectionSvc’,‘DetectionSvc’,’–profile’,‘default’,’–profile’,‘ip200’]

subprocess.Popen(command4LXD,stdout=self.flog)

Is there any other way to achieve the what i want through a python script ?

Create a container with pylxd is not described clearly at the docs

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Try stdin=None or something along those lines, lxc launch reads stuff from stdin if it’s available.

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I did it like this :

config = {'name': 'DetectionSvc', 'source': {'type': 'image', 'alias': 'DetectionSvc'},'profiles': ['default','ip200']}

DetectionSvcContainer = lxd.containers.create(config, wait=True)
DetectionSvcContainer.start(wait=True)

Happy New Year to everyone.