Instructions don't work for Ubuntu 16.04

[scott-eddy]

Thanks for putting these instructions together, I know this really isn't your burden to bear but I thought I would note some problems I'm having using Ubuntu 16.04

#Description of setup

$ uname -a
Linux virtualbox 4.4.0-116-generic #140-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 12 21:23:04 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ systemctl status systemd-binfmt
● systemd-binfmt.service - Set Up Additional Binary Formats
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-binfmt.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2018-03-28 12:22:33 EDT; 7s ago
Condition: start condition failed at Wed 2018-03-28 12:22:33 EDT; 7s ago
           none of the trigger conditions were met
     Docs: man:systemd-binfmt.service(8)
           man:binfmt.d(5)
           https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt
  Process: 4926 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-binfmt (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 4926 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 28 12:05:19 virtualbox systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary Formats...
Mar 28 12:05:19 virtualbox systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
Mar 28 12:22:33 virtualbox systemd[1]: Stopped Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
Mar 28 12:22:33 virtualbox systemd[1]: Stopping Set Up Additional Binary Formats...

#Install steps

$ git clone https://github.com/computermouth/qemu-static-conf.git
$ sudo mkdir -p /lib/binfmt.d
$ sudo cp qemu-static-conf/*.conf /lib/binfmt.d/
$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt.service
Job for systemd-binfmt.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status systemd-binfmt.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

#Post-install systemd info

$ systemctl status systemd-binfmt
● systemd-binfmt.service - Set Up Additional Binary Formats
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-binfmt.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-03-28 12:27:29 EDT; 2s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-binfmt.service(8)
           man:binfmt.d(5)
           https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt
  Process: 7562 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-binfmt (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 7562 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary Formats...
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd-binfmt[7562]: Failed to add binary format: Invalid argument
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd-binfmt[7562]: Failed to add binary format: Invalid argument
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd-binfmt[7562]: Failed to add binary format: Invalid argument
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd[1]: Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 28 12:27:29 virtualbox systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any advice would be appreciated!

[graffic]

Check your kernel version, the F flag is supported from 4.8 onwards. Usually Ubuntu 16.04 comes by default with 4.4

[umer-ilyas]

I have same issue

$ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 5.10.11-v7l+ #1399 SMP Thu Jan 28 12:09:48 GMT 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

 systemctl status systemd-binfmt.service
● systemd-binfmt.service - Set Up Additional Binary Formats
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-binfmt.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-03-05 11:10:24 PKT; 37s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-binfmt.service(8)
           man:binfmt.d(5)
           https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.html
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems
  Process: 7640 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-binfmt (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 7640 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 05 11:10:24 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary Formats...
Mar 05 11:10:24 raspberrypi systemd-binfmt[7640]: Failed to add binary format: No such device
Mar 05 11:10:24 raspberrypi systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 05 11:10:24 raspberrypi systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 05 11:10:24 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats.