standard_init_linux.go:178: exec user process caus

Question

docker started throwing this error:

standard_init_linux.go:178: exec user process caused "exec format error"

whenever I run a specific docker container with CMD or ENTRYPOINT, with no regard to any changes to the file other then removing CMD or ENTRYPOINT. here is the docker file I have been working with which worked perfectly until about an hour ago:

FROM buildpack-deps:jessie

ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH

ENV LANG C.UTF-8

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        tcl \
        tk \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ENV GPG_KEY 0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.6.0

ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 9.0.1

RUN set -ex \
    && buildDeps=' \
        tcl-dev \
        tk-dev \
    ' \
    && apt-get update && apt-get install -y $buildDeps --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    \
    && wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
    && wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
    && export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
    && gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY" \
    && gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz \
    && rm -r "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc \
    && mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
    && tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
    && rm python.tar.xz \
    \
    && cd /usr/src/python \
    && ./configure \
        --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
        --enable-shared \
    && make -j$(nproc) \
    && make install \
    && ldconfig \
    \
    && if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin/pip3 ]; then : \
        && wget -O /tmp/get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py' \
        && python3 /tmp/get-pip.py "pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
        && rm /tmp/get-pip.py \
    ; fi \
    && pip3 install --no-cache-dir --upgrade --force-reinstall "pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
    && [ "$(pip list |tac|tac| awk -F '[ ()]+' '$1 == "pip" { print $2; exit }')" = "$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" ] \
    \
    && find /usr/local -depth \
        \( \
            \( -type d -a -name test -o -name tests \) \
            -o \
            \( -type f -a -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \
        \) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
    && apt-get purge -y --auto-remove $buildDeps \
    && rm -rf /usr/src/python ~/.cache

RUN cd /usr/local/bin \
    && { [ -e easy_install ] || ln -s easy_install-* easy_install; } \
    && ln -s idle3 idle \
    && ln -s pydoc3 pydoc \
    && ln -s python3 python \
    && ln -s python3-config python-config

RUN pip install uwsgi

RUN mkdir /config

RUN mkdir /logs

ENV HOME /var/www

WORKDIR /config

ADD conf/requirements.txt /config

RUN pip install -r /config/requirements.txt

ADD conf/wsgi.py /config

ADD conf/wsgi.ini /config

ADD conf/__init__.py /config

ADD start.sh /bin/start.sh

RUN chmod +x /bin/start.sh

EXPOSE 8000

ENTRYPOINT ["start.sh", "uwsgi", "--ini", "wsgi.ini"]

Answer 1

Add this code

   #!/usr/bin/env bash

at the top of your scirpt file.

Answer 2

Another possible reason for this could be if the file is saved with Windows line endings (CRLF). Save it with Unix line endings (LF) and the file will be found.

Answer 3

I forgot to put

#!/bin/bash

at the top of the sh file, problem solved.

Answer 4

One more possibility is that #!/bin/bash is not in the very first line. There must be really nothing before it (no empty lines, nothing).

Answer 5

Not a direct answer to the question asked. Although I got the error while calling "docker-compose up" to bring my nodejs application up. Realized that in my "Dockerfile" i had CMD ["./server.js"].

To fix i replaced it with CMD ["npm","start"] and that solved the issue. Hope if someone lands here for this exception may find this useful.

Answer 6

Extending to the accepted answer:

For an alpine (without bash) image:

#!/bin/ash

at the top of the sh file, solves the problem.