Error response from daemon: no such id: ovpn-data about docker-openvpn

[kevinejohn]

You skipped the first step

• Create the $OVPN_DATA volume container, i.e. OVPN_DATA="ovpn-data"

  docker run --name $OVPN_DATA -v /etc/openvpn busybox
  

https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn/blob/master/README.md#quick-start

[a1exus]

hmm, that's weird... I actually already did that step... if I skipped it, I wouldn't be able to VPN in before either, but I did... Something weird happened to my docker-machine, I logged in and I noticed docker service wasn't running, so I start it, however I wasn't able to start docker-openvpn container (due to missing volume container).

[TheNomad11]

I have the same issue. When i run

docker run --volumes-from $OVPN_DATA --rm -p 443:1194/tcp --privileged kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_run --proto tcp

I get the error message:

docker: Error response from daemon: No such container: --rm.

although I had created the container

[kylemanna]

Read the answer from @kevinejohn. Your same issue as the same solution, set the environmental variable in your shell.

[TheNomad11]

as a1exus I had done that step before
OVPN_DATA="ovpn-data"
docker run --name $OVPN_DATA -v /etc/openvpn busybox
and was able to run openvpn and use it. it's now when I need to change port or over to TCP that I run into this issue. Sorry, I am a newbie and in the learning phase, thanks for your patience