qemu-user-static was installed on the system when I have been able to reproduce this error (installed on 2012-06-06 from apt log files)
I tried again this morning, and it works correctly. The main difference is that qemu-user-static has been upgraded from 1.0.50-2012.03-0ubuntu3 to 1.2.0-2012.09-0ubuntu1 on 2012-09-23 (~1 week after my last test) So probably *something* has been fixed in this new upstream version. In any case, I tried without qemu-user-static installed and I get the error chroot: failed to run command `useradd': Exec format error which is expected since the emulator is not installed. I don't think it make sense to run lxc for an architecture without the right emulator installed but it is another bug than the one I initially reported and it can be closed as 'fix released' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017847 Title: qemu segfaults when creating an armhf container on an amd64 host To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1017847/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs