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Question

I have dockerized an app which has ffmpeg installed in it via libav-tools. The app launches without problem, yet the problem occured when fluent-ffmpeg npm module tried to execute ffmpeg command, which was not found. When I wanted to check the version of the ffmpeg and the linux distro set up in the image, I used sudo docker exec -it c44f29d30753 "lsb_release -a" command, but it gave the following error: OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:296: starting container process caused "exec: \"lsb_release -a\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown

Then I realized that it gives me the same error with all the commands that I try to run inside the image or the container.

OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:296: starting container process caused "exec: \"ffmpeg -a\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown

This is my Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:xenial
FROM node
RUN apt-get -y update
RUN apt-get --yes install libav-tools
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package.json /usr/src/app
RUN npm install
COPY . /usr/src/app
RUN npm run build
ENV NODE_ENV production
EXPOSE 8000
CMD ["npm", "run", "start:prod"]

I would kindly ask for your help. Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Get rid of your quotes around your command. When you quote it, docker tries to run the full string "lsb_release -a" as a command, which doesn't exist. Instead, you want to run the command lsb_release with an argument -a, and no quotes.

sudo docker exec -it c44f29d30753 lsb_release -a

Note, everything after the container name is the command and arguments to run inside the container, docker will not process any of that as options to the docker command.

Answer 2

I had this due to a simple ordering mistake on my end. I called

[WRONG] docker run <image> <arguments> <command>

When I should have used

docker run <arguments> <image> <command>

Same resolution on similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50762266/6278

Answer 3

If @papigee does solution doesn't work, maybe you don't have the permissions.

I tried @papigee solution but does't work without sudo.

I did :

sudo docker exec -it <container id or name> /bin/sh

Answer 4

@papigee should work on Windows 10 just fine. I'm using the integrated VSCode terminal with git bash and this always works for me.

winpty docker exec -it <container-id> //bin//sh

Answer 5

You can use another shell to execute the same command:

Error I get when i execute:

[jenkins@localhost jenkins_data]$ docker exec -it mysqldb \bin\bash
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:345: starting container process caused "exec: \"binsh\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown

Solution: When I execute it with below command, using bash shell it works:

[jenkins@localhost jenkins_data]$ docker exec -it mysqldb bash
root@<container-ID>:/#

Answer 6

What I did to solve was simply:

1. Run docker ps -a
2. Check for the command of the container (mine started with /bin/sh)
3. Run docker-compose exec < name_of_service > /bin/sh (if that is what started your command

This is for solving when using docker compose