can't login into armhf chroot

[Thomas Karl Pietrowski]

I created a armhf chroot and tried to login into it, but I get the message:

chroot: failed to run command 'bin/bash': No such file or directory

I followed these intructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch/QemuDebootstrap

Tried the same on Debian jessie using qemu 1.2.0 and it worked.

Are there now changes how to set up a armhf chroot?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: qemu-user-static 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 8 18:38:42 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-10 (118 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qemu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-10 (118 days ago)

[Thomas Karl Pietrowski (thopiekar)]

Same when I use qemu-debootstrap:

thopiekar@thopiekar-hp:~/Arbeitsfläche$ sudo qemu-debootstrap raring --arch=armhf /chroots/armhf_qdebootstrap
I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armhf --foreign raring /chroots/armhf_qdebootstrap
I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Failed to retrieve InRelease
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 790BC7277767219C42C86F933B4FE6ACC0B21F32)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports...
I: Retrieving adduser
I: Validating adduser
I: Retrieving apt
I: Validating apt
I: Retrieving apt-utils
I: Validating apt-utils
I: Retrieving base-files
I: Validating base-files
I: Retrieving base-passwd
I: Validating base-passwd
I: Retrieving bash
I: Validating bash
I: Retrieving bsdutils
I: Validating bsdutils
I: Retrieving busybox-initramfs
I: Validating busybox-initramfs
I: Retrieving bzip2
I: Validating bzip2
I: Retrieving console-setup
I: Validating console-setup
I: Retrieving coreutils
I: Validating coreutils
I: Retrieving cpio
I: Validating cpio
I: Retrieving cron
I: Validating cron
I: Retrieving dash
I: Validating dash
I: Retrieving debconf
I: Validating debconf
I: Retrieving debconf-i18n
I: Validating debconf-i18n
I: Retrieving debianutils
I: Validating debianutils
I: Retrieving diffutils
I: Validating diffutils
I: Retrieving dmsetup
I: Validating dmsetup
I: Retrieving dpkg
I: Validating dpkg
I: Retrieving e2fslibs
I: Validating e2fslibs
I: Retrieving e2fsprogs
I: Validating e2fsprogs
I: Retrieving eject
I: Validating eject
I: Retrieving file
I: Validating file
I: Retrieving findutils
I: Validating findutils
I: Retrieving gcc-4.7-base
I: Validating gcc-4.7-base
I: Retrieving gnupg
I: Validating gnupg
I: Retrieving gpgv
I: Validating gpgv
I: Retrieving grep
I: Validating grep
I: Retrieving gzip
I: Validating gzip
I: Retrieving hostname
I: Validating hostname
I: Retrieving ifupdown
I: Validating ifupdown
I: Retrieving initramfs-tools
I: Validating initramfs-tools
I: Retrieving initramfs-tools-bin
I: Validating initramfs-tools-bin
I: Retrieving initscripts
I: Validating initscripts
I: Retrieving insserv
I: Validating insserv
I: Retrieving iproute
I: Validating iproute
I: Retrieving iputils-ping
I: Validating iputils-ping
I: Retrieving isc-dhcp-client
I: Validating isc-dhcp-client
I: Retrieving isc-dhcp-common
I: Validating isc-dhcp-common
I: Retrieving kbd
I: Validating kbd
I: Retrieving keyboard-configuration
I: Validating keyboard-configuration
I: Retrieving klibc-utils
I: Validating klibc-utils
I: Retrieving kmod
I: Validating kmod
I: Retrieving less
I: Validating less
I: Retrieving libacl1
I: Validating libacl1
I: Retrieving libapt-inst1.5
I: Validating libapt-inst1.5
I: Retrieving libapt-pkg4.12
I: Validating libapt-pkg4.12
I: Retrieving libattr1
I: Validating libattr1
I: Retrieving libaudit-common
I: Validating libaudit-common
I: Retrieving libaudit1
I: Validating libaudit1
I: Retrieving libblkid1
I: Validating libblkid1
I: Retrieving libbsd0
I: Validating libbsd0
I: Retrieving libbz2...

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for reporting this bug.

Note that when I simply do

sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu -n a1 -- -a armhf

I can start and log into the armhf container with no problems. Reproducing with the RootfsFromScratch wiki page instructions.

[Thomas Karl Pietrowski (thopiekar)]

seems that lxc-create executes the same command..

thopiekar@thopiekar-hp:~/armhf-test$ sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu -n a1 -- -a armhf

lxc-create: No config file specified, using the default config /etc/lxc/default.conf
Checking cache download in /var/cache/lxc/raring/rootfs-armhf ...
installing packages: vim,ssh,language-pack-de,language-pack-en
Downloading ubuntu raring minimal ...
I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armhf --foreign --verbose --components=main,universe --include=vim,ssh,language-pack-de,language-pack-en raring /var/cache/lxc/raring/partial-armhf
I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Failed to retrieve InRelease
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Release.gpg
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id 790BC7277767219C42C86F933B4FE6ACC0B21F32)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Found additional base dependencies: language-pack-de-base language-pack-en-base libedit2 libgpm2 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libwrap0 openssh-client openssh-server vim-runtime
I: Checking component main on http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports...
I: Retrieving adduser
I: Validating adduser
I: Retrieving apt
I: Validating apt
I: Retrieving apt-utils
I: Validating apt-utils
I: Retrieving base-files
I: Validating base-files
I: Retrieving base-passwd
I: Validating base-passwd
I: Retrieving bash
I: Validating bash
I: Retrieving bsdutils
I: Validating bsdutils
I: Retrieving busybox-initramfs
I: Validating busybox-initramfs
I: Retrieving bzip2
I: Validating bzip2
I: Retrieving console-setup
I: Validating console-setup
I: Retrieving coreutils
I: Validating coreutils
I: Retrieving cpio
I: Validating cpio
I: Retrieving cron
I: Validating cron
I: Retrieving dash
I: Validating dash
I: Retrieving debconf
I: Validating debconf
I: Retrieving debconf-i18n
I: Validating debconf-i18n
I: Retrieving debianutils
I: Validating debianutils
I: Retrieving diffutils
I: Validating diffutils
I: Retrieving dmsetup
I: Validating dmsetup
I: Retrieving dpkg
I: Validating dpkg
I: Retrieving e2fslibs
I: Validating e2fslibs
I: Retrieving e2fsprogs
I: Validating e2fsprogs
I: Retrieving eject
I: Validating eject
I: Retrieving file
I: Validating file
I: Retrieving findutils
I: Validating findutils
I: Retrieving gcc-4.7-base
I: Validating gcc-4.7-base
I: Retrieving gnupg
I: Validating gnupg
I: Retrieving gpgv
I: Validating gpgv
I: Retrieving grep
I: Validating grep
I: Retrieving gzip
I: Validating gzip
I: Retrieving hostname
I: Validating hostname
I: Retrieving ifupdown
I: Validating ifupdown
I: Retrieving initramfs-tools
I: Validating initramfs-tools
I: Retrieving initramfs-tools-bin
I: Validating initramfs-tools-bin
I: Retrieving initscripts
I: Validating initscripts
I: Retrieving insserv
I: Validating insserv
I: Retrieving iproute
I: Validating iproute
I: Retrieving iputils-ping
I: Validating iputils-ping
I: Retrieving isc-dhcp-client
I: Validating isc-dhcp-client
I: Retrieving isc-dhcp-common
I: Validating isc-dhcp-common
I: Re...

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Likewise qemu-debootstrap works fine for me.

Could you show what 'dpkg -l | grep qemu' returns?

[Thomas Karl Pietrowski (thopiekar)]

thopiekar@thopiekar-hp:~$ dpkg -l | grep qemu
ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-4.d6b0b76-0ubuntu2 all Virtual package to support use of kvm-ipxe with qemu
ii qemu 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 fast processor emulator
ii qemu-keymaps 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 all QEMU keyboard maps
ii qemu-system 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries
ii qemu-system-arm 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (arm)
ii qemu-system-common 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files)
ii qemu-system-mips 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (mips)
ii qemu-system-misc 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (miscelaneous)
ii qemu-system-ppc 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc)
ii qemu-system-sparc 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (sparc)
ii qemu-system-x86 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
ii qemu-user 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU user mode emulation binaries
ii qemu-user-static 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU user mode emulation binaries (static version)
ii qemu-utils 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4 amd64 QEMU utilities
ii scratchbox-devkit-qemu 0.13.90-0rabbit1 amd64 Qemu scratchbox devkit

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks, this:

> ii scratchbox-devkit-qemu 0.13.90-0rabbit1 amd64 Qemu scratchbox devkit

appears to be the problem. When I install this, qemu-debootstrap
fails for me as well. When I remove it (and reboot, to make it
relinquish its binfmt bindings) it succeeds.

 status: invalid

[Thomas Karl Pietrowski (thopiekar)]

well, removing only this package does not fix the problem, but purging the full scratchbox suite did the job.
Never thought that scratchbox might break qemu.

Thank you!