chroot: failed to run command -arch installation

Question

I am getting issue while chroot into arch installation after base installation.

 root@archiso ~ # arch-chroot /mnt
 chroot: failed to run command ./bin/bash: No such file or directory

However /bin/bash is there:

root@archiso ~ # ls /bin/bash
/bin/bash

Thanks

I have gone through below question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128046/chroot-failed-to-run-command-bin-bash-no-such-file-or-directory. — krishnakant, Nov 19 '17 at 10:58
I never faced this issue. Follow this guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide — Arpit Agarwal, Nov 19 '17 at 11:25
Still the same issue, not able to figure out what is the issue — krishnakant, Nov 19 '17 at 13:48
Download new iso and create bootable usb using `rufus` or `dd` — Arpit Agarwal, Nov 19 '17 at 14:10
`/bin/bash` is in the root filesystem, but is it in the new root filesystem? `ls /mnt/bin/bash`? All shared libraries needed by bash also need to be present unde `/mnt`. — Johan Myréen, Nov 19 '17 at 17:15
@JohanMyréen Thanks for looking into it. I tried reinstalling by adding with new iso. It worked. I will have a look at the possible reason of this error some time later. — krishnakant, Nov 19 '17 at 20:57

jdwolf · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-20T02:23:24.997

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arch-chroot by default calls chroot with the command /bin/bash. The command is run AFTER new root is set which means the root passed to arch-chroot must have a /bin/bash underneath it as /mnt/bin/bash.

You must have run pacstrap without specifying the base package.

pacstrap /mnt base

not something like

pacstrap /mnt base-dev

edited Nov 20 '17 at 02:23

answered Nov 20 '17 at 02:18

jdwolf

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pacstrap defaults to base, so they would have to have really screwed up... – jasonwryan Nov 20 '17 at 02:21
Oh, good point! – jdwolf Nov 20 '17 at 02:23

chroot: failed to run command -arch installation

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