docker: exec format error

Dustin Kirkland kirkland at canonical.com
Thu Jun 25 18:31:57 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 11:26 AM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On 06/25/2015 01:25 AM, Seth Arnold wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:40:27PM -0700, Zhuoqun Cheng wrote:
>>>>> *$ docker run hello-world*
>>>>> *FATA[0001] Error response from daemon: Cannot start container
>>>>> abcbe08d0619fef08b9de12dfab982ff747ac47198c185899410676f35b512e2: [8]
>>>>> System error: exec format error *
>>>>> (Just to be clear, the first time I ran it, it did pull the image.)
>>>>
>>>> "exec format error" sounds a lot like an architecture mis-match. Are you
>>>> sure the image you downloaded is inteded to be used on ARM? Is it compiled
>>>> for the correct arm instruction set?
>>>>
>>> FYI, if using docker on arm you need to use '-t armbuild/ubuntu:trusty' instead
>>> of '-t ubuntu:trusty'.
>>
>> Can we please patch docker to detect and handle that automatically?
>>
>
> This sounds like a good idea. I filed this bug on your behalf:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1468858

Thanks!  Subscribed, confirmed.

Cheers,
Dustin



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