Problem installing Home Assistant on Docker: standard_init_linux.go:178: exec user process caused "exec format error"

Installation
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I’m trying to run Home Assistant with Docker on my X86 Ubuntu server.

I followed the manual from here:

docker run -d --name="home-assistant" -v /path/to/your/config:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant

I’ve set the config folder to an existing folder and tried starting the container.

Nothing happens. No files are created in the config dir.

I checked Docker logs and this is the result:

standard_init_linux.go:178: exec user process caused “exec format error”

The Google search i did says it might be because the docker image is for Arm and not X86.

Any idea what might be wrong?

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Wrong image for your platform. Are you running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu?

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32 bit

 file /lib/systemd/systemd
/lib/systemd/systemd: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=e192bb554b80dbcdd7ca58802f4b2c41432b5ac9, stripped
rob@gnista:~/homeassistant$ uname -a
Linux gnista 4.4.0-59-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 6 17:36:54 UTC 2017 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
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Then I guess you should use the i386 image: https://store.docker.com/community/images/homeassistant/i386-homeassistant

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Thanks, will check and report back.

At least it’s running now… Some work to do.