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

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 499

I forgot to put

#!/bin/bash

at the top of the sh file, problem solved.

ANSWER 2

Score 362

This can happen if you're trying to run an x86 built image on an arm64/aarch64 machine.

You'll need to rebuild the image using the corresponding architecture

ANSWER 3

Score 88

Add this code

#!/usr/bin/env bash

at the top of your script file.

ANSWER 4

Score 87

If the Docker image is built on an M1 chip and uploaded to be deployed by Fargate then you’ll notice this container error in Fargate:

standard_init_linux.go:228: exec user process caused: exec format error

There’s a couple ways to work around this. You can either:

Build your docker image using:

docker buildx build --platform=linux/amd64 -t image-name:version .

Update your Dockerfile’s FROM statements with

FROM --platform=linux/amd64 BASE_IMAGE:VERSION