how to detach from a docker container

Question

This problem is quite similar like this, but I am still having problems:

I run a container with:

docker run -d CONTAINER 

then I attach to it with

docker attach NAME 

but I cannot exit it, not with CTRL-C, nor with CTRL-P + CTRL-Q (like suggested in the similar question above)

I have to kill -9 PID to exit it...

What am I doing wrong?

Info:

Docker version 0.6.7, build cb48ecc
Ubuntu 3.8.0-33-generic #48~precise1-Ubuntu

Answer 1

As Jérôme Petazzoni mentioned in docker-user group:

 Actually, you can SIGKILL the client, and reattach later. However, this will disrupt stdin (the container will see EOF on stdin, and if it cares about stdin, e.g. if it's a shell, it will exit).  To recap: docker run -t -i → can be detached with ^P^Q and reattached with docker attach docker run -i → cannot be detached with ^P^Q; will disrupt stdin docker run → cannot be detached with ^P^Q; can SIGKILL client; can reattach with docker attach 

Answer 2

You should attach to the container using the --sig-proxy=false option like this:

docker attach --sig-proxy=false NAME 

Then you can use CTRL+Cto exit without stopping the container itself.