Docker errors might not always be clear, so if you face: docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: exec: "/bin/bash": stat /bin/bash: no such file or directory: unknown it means that the image doesn’t have bash environment. Let’s jump on the Solution part.
Prerequisites
- Docker
Solution
Step 1. To solve the issue replace bash environment with shell.
sudo docker run -it IMAGE-ID /bin/sh
Step 2. Check if the container is running.
sudo docker exec -it CONTAINER-ID /bin/sh
Step 2. As for Alpine Linux image install bash inside the Dockerfile.
RUN apk add --no-cache bash
Conclusion
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