(In reply to Dario Faggioli from comment #1) > Note that is doesn't look like it could be a "container specific" thing. In > fact, I tried to setup a "traditional" ARM64 chroot, on the x86 host, again > using qemu-linux-user and binfmt (basically, how it is described here: > https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Chroot) and I run into the same issue. > > BTW, adding brogers@suse.com to Cc, as this is about QEMU. > And I was wrong here. A "traditional chroot", works: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-aarch64 enabled interpreter /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-binfmt flags: P offset 0 magic 7f454c460201010000000000000000000200b700 mask ffffffffffffff00fffffffffffffffffeffffff # chroot src/rootfs/ARM/openSUSE/Tumbleweed/ /bin/bash Palanthas:/ # uname -a Linux Palanthas 5.1.16-1-default #1 SMP Wed Jul 3 12:37:47 UTC 2019 (2af8a22) aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux So, this, together with Comment 4 , seems to suggest that it is something related to the interaction of qemu-aarch64-binfmt (from qemu-linux-user) and docker (or some other container-related component)