I want to use zsh as a part of shell in the running docker container. The thing is, I am using the third part image, Therefore I cannot update the image file.
zsh
zsh is already installed in my system.
Path for my zsh is '/bin/zsh'
The Solutions that I have tried is:
docker exec -it container_id /bin/zsh
docker exec -it container_id zsh
Exceptions While running above commands:
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "/bin/zsh": stat /bin/zsh: no such file or directory: unknown
I run docker exec -it 375babe4d6fc --user root /bin/bash and I get error message as follows:
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:346: starting container process caused "exec: \"--user\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown
But I am sure I have succeeded to run this command before.But Now I can only run docker exec -it 375babe4d6fc /bin/bash to enter the docker container.
Anybody help? Thank you
My docker's version is 2.1.0.5 on windows
I found the problem. It will be OK to use docker exec -it --user root 375babe4d6fc root /bin/bash
I am using a FreeBSD image from dockerhub. After pulling the image, I need to run a container with a terminal to test some commands inside the container.
I am trying this command:
sudo docker run --rm -it auchida/freebsd ./bin/bash
And I get the error:
docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed:
container_linux.go:348: starting container process caused "exec:
\"./bin/bash\": stat ./bin/bash: no such file or directory": unknown
Could anyone help me ?
There is no bash binary embedded in the image, located at /bin/bash or everywhere else : you can check it by looking at base.txz contents.
You can use /bin/sh instead (the default shell, take a look at the Dockerfile) :
sudo docker run --rm -it auchida/freebsd /bin/sh
(/bin/sh is optional in the previous command, since it is the default CMD).
If you really want bash, you must install it.
Note also that you must be on a FreeBSD host to be able to run a container with this image.
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!
This happened to me on windows. See below for any of the commands that match your case.
NOTE
You will need to run the commands that match your case below using the correct shell in your container i.e. /bin/bash or /bin/sh. Using sh instead of bash or vice versa will also give you this error. So, confirm that you are using the right shell, or just try both shells and see the one that works.
For these examples, I will be using sh
On Windows CMD (not switching to bash):
docker exec -it <container-id> /bin/sh
On Windows CMD (after switching to bash):
docker exec -it <container-id> //bin//sh
or
winpty docker exec -it <container-id> //bin//sh
On Git Bash:
winpty docker exec -it <container-id> //bin//sh
For Windows users, the reason is documented in the ReleaseNotes file of Git and it is well explained here - Bash in Git for Windows: Weirdness... :
The cause is to do with trying to ensure that posix paths end up being
passed to the git utilities properly. For this reason, Git for Windows
includes a modified MSYS layer that affects command arguments.
Linux
docker exec -it <container-id> /bin/sh
docker exec -it <containerId> sh
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
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
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.
For others with this error, the debugging steps I'd recommend:
Verify the order of your arguments. Everything after the container name/id is a command to run. So you don't want docker exec $cid -it /bin/sh because that will try to run the command -it in the $cid container. Instead you want docker exec -it $cid /bin/sh
Look at the command that is failing, everything in the quotes after the exec error (e.g. lsb_release -a in "exec: \"lsb_release -a\") is the binary trying to be run. Make sure that binary exists in your image. E.g. if you are using alpine or busybox, bash may not exist, but /bin/sh does. And that binary is the full string, e.g. you would be able to run something like ls "/usr/bin/lsb_release -a" and see a file with the space and -a in the filename.
If you're using Windows with Git bash and see a long path prefixed on that command trying to be run, that's Git bash trying to do some automatic conversions of /path/to/binary, you can disable that by doubling the first slash, e.g. //bin/sh.
If the command you're running is a script in the container, check the first line of that script, containing the #!/path/to/interpreter, make sure that interpreter exists in the image, at that path, and that the script is saved with linux linefeeds (lf, not cr+lf, you won't want the \r showing in the file when read in linux because that becomes part of the command it's looking to execute).
If you don't have a full path to the binary in the command you're running, check the value of $PATH in the image, and verify the binary exists within one of those directories. E.g. you can docker exec -it $cid /bin/sh and echo $PATH and type some_command to verify some_command is found in your path.
If your command is not an executable, but rather a shell builtin, you'll need to execute it with a shell instead of directly. That can be done with docker exec -it $cid /bin/sh -c "your_shell_builtin"
I solved this with this commands:
Run the container:
docker run -d <image-name>
List containers:
docker ps -a
Use the container ID:
docker exec -it <container-id> /bin/sh
I was running into this issue and it turned out that I needed to do this:
docker run ${image_name} bash -c "${command}"
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>:/#
What I did to solve was simply:
Run docker ps -a
Check for the command of the container (mine started with /bin/sh)
Run docker-compose exec < name_of_service > /bin/sh (if that is what started your command
This is for solving when using docker compose
I was running a container in a docker-compose.
entrypoint:
- ls
worked, but
entrypoint:
- ls tests
did not.
It's because the arguments have to be on separate lines.. 🤦♂
entrypoint:
- ls
- tests
This has happened to me. My issue was caused when I didn't mount Docker file system correctly, so I configured the Disk Image Location and re-bind File sharing mount, and this now worked correctly.
For reference, I use Docker Desktop in Windows.
In my case i saved the docker image and instead of load-ing it on the other machine i imported it which are very different and lead me to an error similar to this.
you have to run like below:
docker exec sh -c 'echo "$ENV_NAME"'
I had windows line endings in a shell script. change to LF dos2unix
If you got this error when using the docker run command, you may have made a simple syntax error.
Example
Incorrect:
docker run myimage -p 3838:3838
docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim: OCI runtime create
failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused:
exec: "-p": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown.
ERRO[0000] error waiting for container: context canceled
Correct (options go before image name):
docker run -p 3838:3838 myimage
I am running the container hypriot/rpi-busybox-httpd
I am trying to ssh to docker container: but it is giving error :
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ docker exec -it cc55da85b915 bash
rpc error: code = 2 desc = oci runtime error: exec failed: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "exec: \"bash\": executable file not found in $PATH"
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ docker exec -it cc55da85b915 sh
rpc error: code = 2 desc = oci runtime error: exec failed: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "exec: \"sh\": executable file not found in $PATH"
am I doing the right away ?
It could be your image does not have the binary /bin/bash installed (as suggested before), I had the same problem and I was able to enter into the container using /bin/sh
docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 /bin/sh
Another workaround could be execute directly the commands without get access to any shell.
docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 ls /etc
The image you're using seems that it doesn't have the binary /bin/bash installed but it should have /bin/sh
Try:
docker exec -it cc55da85b915 sh
You might need to specify the full path to bash, e.g.:
docker exec -it cc55da85b915 /bin/bash
or /usr/local/bin/bash, or wherever bash is located in that image.
Hope this helps!
You have many different ways to do that, you can attach using docker's attach command.
$ sudo docker attach cc55da85b915 #by ID
Or you can use docker exec command:
$ sudo docker exec -i -t cc55da85b915 /bin/bash
If /bin/bash fails, you can use /bin/sh that works in more containers:
$ sudo docker exec -i -t cc55da85b915 /bin/sh
if you are still looking for an answer. This worked for me on windows.
winpty docker exec -it <containerid> sh
For Alpine based image, docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 /bin/sh and docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 ls /etc worked. As suggested by 'Esteban Collado'.
However for other Linux versions I use,
docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 bash
Try Below Command:
docker exec -it cc55da85b915 /bin/busybox sh
To list all the available commands use:
docker exec -it cc55da85b915 /bin/busybox --list
This will also relevant for Kubernetes pods.
For example if you'll try to connect to a pod which doesn't contain the shell you specified:
kubectl exec -it some-busybox-pod bash
(busybox have sh on it not bash).
You'll end up with the same error:
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:349: starting container process caused "exec: \"bash\": executable file not found in $PATH": unknown
command terminated with exit code 126