Moby: standard_init_linux.go:175: exec user process caused "exec format error"

[kevingo]

Description

Steps to reproduce the issue:
1.Build a static golang simple http server with command: CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -a -installsuffix cgo -o main .
2.Create a Dockerfile

FROM scratch

ADD main /

CMD ["/main"]

3.Build Docker image docker build -t kevingo/http-scratch -f Dockerfile.scratch .
4.Docker run with port binding docker run -p 1234:8080 kevingo/http-scratch

Describe the results you received:
standard_init_linux.go:175: exec user process caused "exec format error"

Describe the results you expected:
Correct run the container without error

Output of docker version:

Client:
 Version:      1.12.1
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.7.1
 Git commit:   6f9534c
 Built:        Thu Sep  8 10:31:18 2016
 OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.12.1
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   23cf638
 Built:        Thu Aug 18 17:52:38 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Output of docker info:

Containers: 79 Running: 0 Paused: 0 Stopped: 79 Images: 61 Server Version: 1.12.1 Storage Driver: aufs Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs Backing Filesystem: extfs Dirs: 375 Dirperm1 Supported: true Logging Driver: json-file Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs Plugins: Volume: local Network: null host bridge overlay Swarm: inactive Runtimes: runc Default Runtime: runc Security Options: seccomp Kernel Version: 4.4.20-moby Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.4 OSType: linux Architecture: x86_64 CPUs: 2 Total Memory: 1.953 GiB Name: moby ID: 4W7W:QBKE:OVDR:DOML:ZWHI:JKLR:555F:GB6H:BSAR:Q25F:LQGX:YHN6 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker Debug Mode (client): false Debug Mode (server): true File Descriptors: 18 Goroutines: 29 System Time: 2016-10-25T08:23:53.429205718Z EventsListeners: 1 No Proxy: *.local, 169.254/16 Username: kevingo Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/ Insecure Registries: 127.0.0.0/8```

[coolljt0725]

@kevingo This should be a mismatch with platform . I run into this issue when I run an amd64 image on an arm64 image by accident. Are your sure the binary you built with CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -a -installsuffix cgo -o main . can run on your host?

[justincormack]

GOOS=darwin builds an executable that runs on OSX, you cannot run this in a Linux container. I am closing this as it is expected behaviour. There are no native OSX containers yet, sorry...

[kevingo]

@coolljt0725 @justincormack Thanks. I change GOOS to linux, and everything works fine.

[IanEdington]

For googlers check the Sha-Bang on your Entrypoint and CMD scripts.

!/bin/bash

[akath20]

I am encountering this same error. It's a tiny php container with my application and it runs fine on my Mac but gives me that error on my raspberry pi. I built it on the Mac and copied the image to the pi and built it on the pi and neither had luck. How would I change "G00S"?

[thaJeztah]

@akath20 the GOOS is something specific to the Go language, so won't help you. For your situation, you'll need a base image that's able to run on ARM, and a PHP version for that architecture as well.

It's probably better to ask this on forums.docker.com or the docker community slack channel

[vamsi248]

Hello i am getting the same error,..
these are the logs and docekrfile i am using
logs : standard_init_linux.go:187: exec user process caused "exec format error"

FROM openjdk:8-jre

MAINTAINER krish

Define environment variables

ENV ARTIFACTORY_HOME=/opt/artifactory
ENV ARTIFACTORY_VERSION=5.4.6
ENV MIN_HEAP_SIZE="-Xms512m"
ENV MAX_HEAP_SIZE="-Xmx2g"

Create artifactory group and user

RUN groupadd -g 1000 artifactory \
&& useradd -d "$ARTIFACTORY_HOME" -u 1000 -g 1000 -s /sbin/nologin artifactory

Install artifactory

RUN wget "https://api.bintray.com/content/jfrog/artifactory/jfrog-artifactory-oss-${ARTIFACTORY_VERSION}.zip;bt_package=jfrog-artifactory-oss-zip" && \
unzip "jfrog-artifactory-oss-${ARTIFACTORY_VERSION}.zip;bt_package=jfrog-artifactory-oss-zip" && \
mv artifactory-oss-${ARTIFACTORY_VERSION} $ARTIFACTORY_HOME && \
rm "jfrog-artifactory-oss-${ARTIFACTORY_VERSION}.zip;bt_package=jfrog-artifactory-oss-zip"

Define mountable directories

VOLUME $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/data
VOLUME $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/etc
VOLUME $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/logs
VOLUME $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/backup
VOLUME $ARTIFACTORY_HOME/access

Add initialization script

ADD entrypoint.sh /opt/artifactory/bin/entrypoint.sh

Modify script permissions

RUN chmod 755 /opt/artifactory/bin/entrypoint.sh

Change directories ownership to artifactory user and group

RUN chown -R artifactory:artifactory $ARTIFACTORY_HOME

Run the container as artifactory user

USER artifactory

Define default command

ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/artifactory/bin/entrypoint.sh"]

Expose port

EXPOSE 8081