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LeeBeater

Help please, I dont know whats going on. Qbittorrent container w/ Gluetun can't be stopped.

I am trying to connect gluetun to qbittorrent. First I got them both running in the same docker compose file but the qbittorrent container would not reset. Then I tried separating the .yml files, both times everything worked like it should torrents downloaded and it was connected to the VPN, but I cant restart the container. Gluetun is working without issue. Below is my docker compose files and the error.

$ sudo docker restart qbitt

Error response from daemon: Cannot restart container qbitt: tried to kill container, but did not receive an exit event

Here is the command I found that helped me stop the container (no idea what this does):

$ ps aux | grep (Docker ID) | awk '(print $1 $2}'

root112502

user1440452

$ sudo kill -9 112502

Docker-compose without gluetun:

services:

qbittorrent:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest

container_name: qbitt

network_mode: "container:gluetun"

environment:

- TZ=America/New_York

- WEBUI_PORT=8080

- PUID=1000

- PGID=1000

volumes:

- /home/mxh/Documents/gluetun/qbitt/config:/config

- /media/mxh/External1:/downloads

- /home/mxh/in:/internal

restart: always

Docker compose with gluetun:

- NET_ADMIN

devices:

- /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun

ports:

- 8888:8888/tcp # HTTP proxy

- 8388:8388/tcp # Shadowsocks

- 8388:8388/udp # Shadowsocks

- 8080:8080 # Qbittorrent

volumes:

- /home/mxh/Documents/gluetun:/gluetun

environment:

- VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=surfshark

- VPN_TYPE=openvpn

# OpenVPN:

- OPENVPN_USER=user

- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass

# Timezone for accurate log times

- TZ=America/New_York

- SERVER_COUNTRIES=United States

# qbittorrent:

# image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest

# container_name: qbitt

# network_mode: "service:gluetun"

# environment:

# - TZ=America/New_York

# - WEBUI_PORT=8080

# - PUID=1000

# - PGID=1000

# volumes:

# - /home/mxh/Documents/gluetun/qbitt/config:/config

# - /media/mxh/External1:/downloads

# - /home/mxh/in:/internal

# depends_on:

# gluetun:

# condition: service_healthy

# restart: always

Posted Nov 5, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC

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