schroot sudo main: unable to allocate memory

[Noah Delatoba]

Unable to use sudo within zesty armhf chroot on trusty arch64. Getting error unable to to allocate memory.

$ sudo ls
sudo: main: unable to allocate memory

kernel - 4.4.0-38-generic
release - Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
system architecture - arm64
chroot architecture - armhf

sudo:
  Installed: 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.3
  Candidate: 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.3
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.3 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-updates/main arm64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-security/main arm64 Packages
     1.8.9p5-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty/main arm64 Packages

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was unable to recreate this on an amd64 chroot:

 $ schroot -u bdmurray -c zesty-amd64
W: Shell ‘/bin/zsh’ not available: /bin/zsh: Failed to stat file: No such file or directory
W: Falling back to shell ‘/bin/bash’
(zesty-amd64)bdmurray@impulse:~/source-trees/ubuntu-archive-tools/phased-update-overrides$ sudo apt-get install 2vcard
[sudo] password for bdmurray:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  2vcard
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 13.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 53.2 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 2vcard all 0.6-1 [13.0 kB]
Fetched 13.0 kB in 0s (438 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package 2vcard.
(Reading database ... 13744 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/2vcard_0.6-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking 2vcard (0.6-1) ...
Setting up 2vcard (0.6-1) ...

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Actually that was a terrible test, ignore that comment.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Closing as invalid, sudo was having a sad due to a lack of virtual filesystems being mounted in the chroot.