chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/env': Exec format error

Hi,

I getting this error after "lb build" --> chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/env': Exec format error
what could have possibly gone wrong?

Code:

chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/env': Exec format error[2013-03-24 19:27:33] lb build noauto [2013-03-24 19:27:33] lb bootstrap P: Setting up cleanup function [2013-03-24 19:27:33] lb bootstrap_cache restore P: Restoring bootstrap stage from cache... [2013-03-24 19:27:33] lb bootstrap_cdebootstrap P: Begin bootstrapping system... [2013-03-24 19:27:33] lb testroot P: If the following stage fails, the most likely cause of the problem is with your mirror configuration or a caching proxy. P: Running cdebootstrap (download-only)... P: Retrieving InRelease P: Validating InRelease I: Good signature from "Kali Linux Repository <[email protected]>" P: Parsing InRelease P: Validating Packages.gz P: Parsing Packages P: Validating libc-bin P: Validating gcc-4.7-base .... "it goes on validating and extracting packages" .... P: Extracting hostname P: Extracting login P: Extracting ncurses-base P: Extracting ncurses-bin P: Extracting sed P: Extracting sysvinit P: Extracting xz-utils E: Execution failed: Exec format error E: Internal error: install P: Begin unmounting filesystems... P: Saving caches... chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/env': Exec format error

Hey HollowMan,

Did you get any update on this?

unfortunately no :\ I still can't build my custom image...

Can you give us more details about your environment ? the architecture your are trying to build ? the steps you did before "lb build" ?

Hi root-boy,

In my case none of the amd64 isos would work, unless I have to disable the pentest tools, so I had to download the vm image and install it.
Install went fine, and VM start just fine. (took a snapshot)
Update the VM downloaed about 900mb of updates.. (weired). (took a snapshot)

Prepare for the iso build:

apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring
then clone the git :
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git
goto the build dir :
cd live[TAB]
make the changes in the --> config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot comment all the Gnome desktop lines, and add the one I wanted for instance mc.
nano -w config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot
and since the image is an x86_32 arch, I did this step after the kali.list.chroot edit in case it reads the changes done to the said file:
dpkg --add-architecture amd64
apt-get update
and then set the lb config to an x86_64 arch, this way:
ln -sf wheezy /usr/share/live/build/data/debian-cd/kali
lb config --architecture amd64
and then build the iso:
lb build.

results:

Code:

root@kali:~# apt-get git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring E: Invalid operation git root@kali:~# apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done git is already the newest version. kali-archive-keyring is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: armitage enum4linux greenbone-security-assistant libblas3gf libksba8 liblapack3gf libmicrohttpd10 libopenvas6 nasm openvas-administrator openvas-cli openvas-manager openvas-scanner polenum xsltproc Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: gnu-fdisk libdebian-installer-extra4 libdebian-installer4 live-boot-doc live-config-doc live-manual-html Suggested packages: debian-keyring xorriso loadlin memtest86+ memtest86 mtools squashfs-tools mtd-tools syslinux grub win32-loader The following NEW packages will be installed: cdebootstrap gnu-fdisk libdebian-installer-extra4 libdebian-installer4 live-boot-doc live-build live-config-doc live-manual-html 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 854 kB of archives. After this operation, 7,386 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libdebian-installer4 i386 0.87 [33.3 kB] Get:2 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libdebian-installer-extra4 i386 0.87 [15.0 kB] Get:3 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main cdebootstrap i386 0.5.10 [33.2 kB] Get:4 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main live-boot-doc all 3.0~b11-1 [51.6 kB] Get:5 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main live-build all 3.0.1-1+kali1 [180 kB] Get:6 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main live-config-doc all 3.0.18-1 [49.9 kB] Get:7 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main live-manual-html all 1:3.0.2-1 [373 kB] Get:8 http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main gnu-fdisk i386 1.2.4-3.1 [118 kB] Fetched 854 kB in 4s (183 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libdebian-installer4. (Reading database ... 239120 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libdebian-installer4 (from .../libdebian-installer4_0.87_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libdebian-installer-extra4. Unpacking libdebian-installer-extra4 (from .../libdebian-installer-extra4_0.87_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package cdebootstrap. Unpacking cdebootstrap (from .../cdebootstrap_0.5.10_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package live-boot-doc. Unpacking live-boot-doc (from .../live-boot-doc_3.0~b11-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package live-build. Unpacking live-build (from .../live-build_3.0.1-1+kali1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package live-config-doc. Unpacking live-config-doc (from .../live-config-doc_3.0.18-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package live-manual-html. Unpacking live-manual-html (from .../live-manual-html_1%3a3.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gnu-fdisk. Unpacking gnu-fdisk (from .../gnu-fdisk_1.2.4-3.1_i386.deb) ... Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man8/cfdisk.8.gz to /usr/share/man/man8/cfdisk.distrib.8.gz by gnu-fdisk' Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man8/fdisk.8.gz to /usr/share/man/man8/fdisk.distrib.8.gz by gnu-fdisk' Adding 'diversion of /sbin/fdisk to /sbin/fdisk.distrib by gnu-fdisk' Adding 'diversion of /sbin/cfdisk to /sbin/cfdisk.distrib by gnu-fdisk' Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Setting up libdebian-installer4 (0.87) ... Setting up libdebian-installer-extra4 (0.87) ... Setting up cdebootstrap (0.5.10) ... Setting up live-boot-doc (3.0~b11-1) ... Setting up live-build (3.0.1-1+kali1) ... Setting up live-config-doc (3.0.18-1) ... Setting up live-manual-html (1:3.0.2-1) ... Setting up gnu-fdisk (1.2.4-3.1) ... root@kali:~# git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git Cloning into 'live-build-config'... remote: Counting objects: 505, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (254/254), done. remote: Total 505 (delta 257), reused 429 (delta 220) Receiving objects: 100% (505/505), 254.13 KiB | 231 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (257/257), done. root@kali:~# cd live-build-config/ root@kali:~/live-build-config# nano -w config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot root@kali:~/live-build-config# dpkg --add-architecture amd64 root@kali:~/live-build-config# apt-get update Get:1 http://security.kali.org kali/updates Release.gpg [836 B] ### goes the list hit and get ### Hit http://http.kali.org kali/contrib i386 Packages Fetched 24.7 MB in 52s (472 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done root@kali:~/live-build-config# lb config --architecture amd64 [2013-05-17 13:58:51] lb config --architecture amd64 P: Executing auto/config script. ERROR: Run this first ln -sf wheezy /usr/share/live/build/data/debian-cd/kali root@kali:~/live-build-config# ln -sf wheezy /usr/share/live/build/data/debian-cd/kali root@kali:~/live-build-config# lb config --architecture amd64[2013-05-17 13:59:30] lb config --architecture amd64 P: Executing auto/config script. [2013-05-17 13:59:30] lb config noauto --distribution kali --debian-installer-distribution kali --archive-areas main contrib non-free --bootstrap cdebootstrap --cdebootstrap-options --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg --suite-config=wheezy --keyring-packages kali-archive-keyring --updates false --backports false --source false --firmware-binary true --firmware-chroot true --mirror-bootstrap http://archive.kali.org/kali --mirror-debian-installer http://archive.kali.org/kali --mirror-chroot-security http://archive.kali.org/kali-security --mirror-binary http://http.kali.org/kali --mirror-binary-security http://security.kali.org/kali-security --iso-application Kali Linux --iso-publisher Kali --iso-volume Kali Live --linux-packages linux-image --bootappend-live boot=live noconfig=sudo username=root hostname=kali --debian-installer live --architecture amd64 P: Considering defaults defined in /etc/live/build.conf P: Updating config tree for a debian/amd64 system root@kali:~/live-build-config# lb build [2013-05-17 13:59:59] lb build P: Executing auto/build script. [2013-05-17 13:59:59] lb build noauto [2013-05-17 13:59:59] lb bootstrap P: Setting up cleanup function [2013-05-17 13:59:59] lb bootstrap_cache restore P: Restoring bootstrap stage from cache... [2013-05-17 13:59:59] lb bootstrap_cdebootstrap P: Begin bootstrapping system... [2013-05-17 13:59:59] lb testroot P: If the following stage fails, the most likely cause of the problem is with your mirror configuration or a caching proxy. P: Running cdebootstrap (download-only)... P: Retrieving Release P: Retrieving Release.gpg P: Validating Release I: Good signature from "Kali Linux Repository <[email protected]>" P: Parsing Release P: Retrieving Packages.gz P: Validating Packages.gz P: Parsing Packages P: Retrieving libc-bin P: Validating libc-bin P: Retrieving gcc-4.7-base P: Validating gcc-4.7-base ### goes Retrieving /Validating ### P: Retrieving xz-utils P: Validating xz-utils P: If the following stage fails, the most likely cause of the problem is with your mirror configuration or a caching proxy. P: Running cdebootstrap... P: Retrieving Release P: Retrieving Release.gpg P: Validating Release I: Good signature from "Kali Linux Repository <[email protected]>" P: Parsing Release P: Validating Packages.gz P: Parsing Packages P: Validating libc-bin ### goes validating ### P: Validating xz-utils P: Extracting libc-bin ### goes extracting ### P: Extracting sysvinit P: Extracting xz-utils E: Execution failed: Exec format error E: Internal error: install P: Begin unmounting filesystems... P: Saving caches... chroot: failed to run command `/usr/bin/env': Exec format error root@kali:~/live-build-config#

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cheers,

Hello root-boy, I have a 32bit architecture desktop with kali 1.0 gnome version installed, but I wanted to build a KDE 64bit image for my laptop, and so I went like this:

apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git
cd live-build-config
the I edited properly(at leat I think I did) config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot
dpkg --add-architecture amd64
apt-get update
lb config --architecture amd64
lb build
---//-----

and then I got that error :\

OK, i think you are getting this error because you're trying to build a 64bit ISO on a 32bit architecture. try to do it on kali 64bit and give me the results.

Hi Hollow Man,

I had the same problem - so I did the following:

> echo deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main >> /etc/apt-sources.list
> apt-get update --fix-missing
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> cd live-build-config
> lb clean
> lb config --architecture i386
> lb build

After that, this old little lady of a single-core i386 laptop built my LXDE build. Here's what I built it on:
> uname -a
Linux Onyx 3.7-trunk-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali8 i686 GNU/Linux

I hope this helps. Cheers!