Error: Cannot Start Container: stat /bin/sh: no such file or directory"

Question

I have been trying to create my own busybox base image.

# ./mkimage.sh -t pensu/busybox busybox-static
+ mkdir -p /var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ/rootfs
+ tar --numeric-owner -caf /var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ/rootfs.tar.xz -C /var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ/rootfs '--transform=s,^./,,' .
+ cat > '/var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ/Dockerfile'
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ/rootfs
+ docker build -t pensu/busybox /var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ
Sending build context to Docker daemon 863.2 kB
Sending build context to Docker daemon 
Step 0 : FROM scratch
 ---> 
Step 1 : ADD rootfs.tar.xz /
 ---> 8eac78bfc9d6
Removing intermediate container ad9bbb8f7536
Successfully built 8eac78bfc9d6
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/docker-mkimage.US3tHy0uBQ

I can see the image is available with my docker repo.

# docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             VIRTUAL SIZE
pensu/busybox       latest              8eac78bfc9d6        7 seconds ago       2.476 MB

But when I try to do docker run, I always get the error:

# docker run -it pensu/busybox /bin/sh
exec: "/bin/sh": stat /bin/sh: no such file or directorytime="2015-04-09T16:03:45+05:30" level="fatal" msg="Error response from daemon: Cannot start container 8fe73b7832193c847d7975175a4be86d1f0b550b6a00b812bd4cdd18fe752468: exec: \"/bin/sh\": stat /bin/sh: no such file or directory" 

I am not able to understand why is it giving that error? Am I doing something wrong? How else can I validate that I am creating a correct image that is in working condition?

Answer 1

After you create image, check it with:

$ docker inspect $image_name 

and check what you have in CMD option. For busy box it should be:

"Cmd": [
     "/bin/sh"
]

Maybe you are overwritting CMD option in your ./mkimage.sh