Pods stuck in Terminating status

I found this command more straightforward:

for p in $(kubectl get pods | grep Terminating | awk '{print $1}'); do kubectl delete pod $p --grace-period=0 --force;done

It will delete all pods in Terminating status in default namespace.

Force delete the pod:

kubectl delete pod --grace-period=0 --force --namespace <NAMESPACE> <PODNAME>

The --force flag is mandatory.

The original question is "What could be the reason for this issue?" and the answer is discussed at https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51835 & https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/65569 & see https://www.bountysource.com/issues/33241128-unable-to-remove-a-stopped-container-device-or-resource-busy

Its caused by docker mount leaking into some other namespace.

You can logon to pod host to investigate.

minikube ssh
docker container ps | grep <id>
docker container stop <id> 

You can use following command to delete the POD forcefully.

kubectl delete pod <PODNAME> --grace-period=0 --force --namespace <NAMESPACE>