diff --git a/aci/e2e/e2e-aci_test.go b/aci/e2e/e2e-aci_test.go
index 87c0ce094..71ac5548c 100644
--- a/aci/e2e/e2e-aci_test.go
+++ b/aci/e2e/e2e-aci_test.go
@@ -485,10 +485,14 @@ func TestContainerRunAttached(t *testing.T) {
 				time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
 				c.RunDockerCmd("rm", "-f", container)
 			}
-			c.RunDockerCmd("run",
-				"--name", "fallback", // don't reuse the container name, this container is in a weird state and blocks everything
-				"--memory", "0.1G", "--cpus", "0.1",
-				"nginx")
+			go func() { // this specific call to run sometimes does not come back when in this weird state, but the container is actually running fine
+				c.RunDockerCmd("run",
+					"--name", container, // don't reuse the container name, this container is in a weird state and blocks everything
+					"--memory", "0.1G", "--cpus", "0.1",
+					"nginx")
+				fmt.Printf("	[%s] Finished docker run %s\n", t.Name(), container)
+			}()
+			waitForStatus(t, c, container, convert.StatusRunning)
 		} else {
 			res.Assert(t, icmd.Expected{Out: container})
 			waitForStatus(t, c, container, convert.StatusRunning)
@@ -973,7 +977,10 @@ func getContainerName(stdout string) string {
 
 func waitForStatus(t *testing.T, c *E2eCLI, containerID string, statuses ...string) {
 	checkStopped := func(logt poll.LogT) poll.Result {
-		res := c.RunDockerCmd("inspect", containerID)
+		res := c.RunDockerOrExitError("inspect", containerID)
+		if res.Error != nil {
+			return poll.Continue("Error while inspecting container %s: %s", containerID, res.Combined())
+		}
 		containerInspect, err := parseContainerInspect(res.Stdout())
 		assert.NilError(t, err)
 		for _, status := range statuses {