Cannot start service cm: container is marked for removal and cannot be started

During Sitecore instance setup with docker-compose command, sometimes you may face below issue

ERROR: Cannot start service cm: container is marked for removal and cannot be started

or 

ERROR: Cannot start service mssql encountered an error during hcsshim sitecore docker

or

ERROR: Cannot start service solr encountered an error during hcsshim::System::Start: failure in a Windows system call: The virtual machine or container exited unexpectedly.

To resolve above issues, please follow below steps

Try below commands as PowerShell script(admin mode)

docker-compose down

docker-compose up -d

If issue not resolved then please try below approach

copy container id, for which facing issue then run below commands in PowerShell as admin

net stop docker

now manually delete Folder with matched container id from C:\Programdata\docker\containers

net start docker

Hope this help.

Sitecore 10 update 1 installation using SIF

In previous article, we did setup Sitecore 10 update 1 instance using docker

Now in this article will explain alternate way to setup Sitecore 10.0.1 instance using SIF

Pre-requisites

Click here Packages for XP Single download and unzip (at Let's say D:\Sitecore101SIF)

Paste license.xml file at D:\Sitecore101SIF

Installation

Open PowerShell as admin and execute below commands in sequence

cd D:\Sitecore101SIF

Install-Module SitecoreInstallFramework  [ensure version is  2.3.0]
Install-SitecoreConfiguration -Path .\Prerequisites.json

below solr command is optional if solr 8.4.0 already working as https

Install-SitecoreConfiguration -Path Solr-SingleDeveloper.json

Update parameter values in XP0-SingleDeveloper.ps1

.\XP0-SingleDeveloper.ps1

That's it.

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