The error message that I posted above is all that I see when I go to pull and image. Following is the log from docker daemon
time="2020-05-26T07:34:31.385796553Z" level=info msg="API listen on /var/run/docker.sock" time="2020-05-26T07:34:34.607431981Z" level=debug msg="Calling GET /_ping" time="2020-05-26T07:34:34.635096021Z" level=debug msg="Calling GET /v1.38/containers/json" time="2020-05-26T07:34:43.919894850Z" level=debug msg="Calling GET /_ping" time="2020-05-26T07:34:43.963634642Z" level=debug msg="Calling GET /v1.38/info" time="2020-05-26T07:34:44.702451808Z" level=debug msg="Calling POST /v1.38/images/create?fromImage=hello-world&tag=latest" time="2020-05-26T07:34:44.715857621Z" level=debug msg="Trying to pull hello-world from https://registry-1.docker.io v2" time="2020-05-26T07:34:46.805807639Z" level=debug msg="Pulling ref from V2 registry: hello-world:latest" time="2020-05-26T07:34:46.806872106Z" level=debug msg="docker.io/library/hello-world:latest resolved to a manifestList object with 9 entries; looking for a unknown/s390x match" time="2020-05-26T07:34:46.808815074Z" level=debug msg="found match for linux/s390x with media type application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json, digest sha256:e49abad529e5d9bd6787f3abeab94e09ba274fe34731349556a850b9aebbf7bf" time="2020-05-26T07:34:47.233545931Z" level=debug msg="pulling blob \"sha256:3c80930bfdd5b53b7ca2a6b8116ed9a273af43a6b2dd13e81e82aae7521be469\"" time="2020-05-26T07:34:47.864739182Z" level=debug msg="Downloaded 3c80930bfdd5 to tempfile /var/lib/docker/tmp/GetImageBlob114078888" time="2020-05-26T07:34:48.038875327Z" level=debug msg="Cleaning up layer b3da5d545c61d65059a2190feb19ae13797338ee999542b615e93e9708b88507: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): " time="2020-05-26T07:34:48.049928529Z" level=info msg="Attempting next endpoint for pull after error: failed to register layer: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): " Since I am using multiarch/qemu-user-static with the latest tag, qemu version is 4.2.0-6. docker in docker works flawlessly on native s390x host. I am facing this issue only with qemu. Are there any other steps to follow to make docker in docker work under qemu? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1880518 Title: issue while installing docker inside s390x container Status in QEMU: New Bug description: This is in reference to https://github.com/multiarch/qemu-user-static/issues/108. I am facing issue while installing docker inside s390x container under qemu on Ubuntu 18.04 host running on amd64. Following are the contents of /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-s390x on Intel host after running docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes enabled interpreter /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static flags: F offset 0 magic 7f454c4602020100000000000000000000020016 mask ffffffffffffff00fffffffffffffffffffeffff I could get docker service up with the following trick. printf '{"iptables": false,"ip-masq": false,"bridge": "none" }' > /etc/docker/daemon.json But even though docker service comes up, images are not getting pulled, docker pull fails with the following error. failed to register layer: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1880518/+subscriptions