moby: Base Image that fails to run only on BTRFS with /bin/bash: error in loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot stat shared object: Error 75

I’ve put the base image in question into a Gist for easy building/testing: https://gist.github.com/tianon/11230518 (ie, docker build -t test https://gist.github.com/11230518.git)

On my BTRFS system:

$ docker info
Containers: 17
Images: 418
Storage Driver: btrfs
Execution Driver: native-0.1
Kernel Version: 3.12.14-gentoo
Debug mode (server): true
Debug mode (client): false
Fds: 11
Goroutines: 16
EventsListeners: 0
Init SHA1: a0a847f0bde38dc71bea71f6d1ef7784aea2e8e9
Init Path: /usr/libexec/docker/dockerinit
Username: tianon
Registry: [https://index.docker.io/v1/]
$ docker version
Client version: 0.10.0-dev
Client API version: 1.11
Go version (client): go1.2
Git commit (client): 6b0f0af
Server version: 0.10.0-dev
Server API version: 1.11
Git commit (server): 6b0f0af
Go version (server): go1.2
Last stable version: 0.10.0
$ docker build -t test https://gist.github.com/11230518.git
Uploading context 25.82 MB
Uploading context 
Step 0 : FROM scratch
 ---> 511136ea3c5a
Step 1 : ADD rootfs.tar.xz /
 ---> 6d0926382ac5
Removing intermediate container e09509bbe087
Step 2 : CMD ["/bin/bash"]
 ---> Running in 7e2fcad0d1bd
 ---> 10425905f4b6
Removing intermediate container 7e2fcad0d1bd
Successfully built 10425905f4b6
$ docker run -it --rm test
/bin/bash: error in loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot stat shared object: Error 75

On my AUFS system:

$ docker info
Containers: 80
Images: 1228
Storage Driver: aufs
 Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
 Dirs: 1705
Execution Driver: native-0.1
Kernel Version: 3.12.13-gentoo
Debug mode (server): true
Debug mode (client): false
Fds: 24
Goroutines: 84
EventsListeners: 0
Init SHA1: 83753cadf5c3033f8a6f59ace04e21b6bbb0466e
Init Path: /var/lib/docker/init/dockerinit-0.10.0-dev
Username: tianon
Registry: [https://index.docker.io/v1/]
$ docker version
Client version: 0.10.0-dev
Client API version: 1.11
Go version (client): go1.2
Git commit (client): 231f53f
Server version: 0.10.0-dev
Server API version: 1.11
Git commit (server): 24c4c3e
Go version (server): go1.2
Last stable version: 0.10.0
$ docker build -t test https://gist.github.com/11230518.git
Uploading context 25.82 MB
Uploading context 
Step 0 : FROM scratch
 ---> 511136ea3c5a
Step 1 : ADD rootfs.tar.xz /
 ---> 40a11eba76e5
Removing intermediate container d6d0d0ea6b18
Step 2 : CMD ["/bin/bash"]
 ---> Running in 971adf3b03b6
 ---> 1009c758246e
Removing intermediate container 971adf3b03b6
Successfully built 1009c758246e
$ docker run -it --rm test
bash-2.03# cat /etc/debian_version 
2.2
bash-2.03# exit

Here’s how I created the image filesystem:

# debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=iproute potato /tmp/docker-mkimage.Ifmq3BC6nl/rootfs http://archive.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release 
I: Retrieving Packages 
I: Validating Packages 
I: Found packages in base already in required: libdb2 textutils 
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Found additional base dependencies: debconf perl-5.005 
...
I: Extracting textutils...
I: Extracting update...
I: Extracting util-linux...
I: Extracting whiptail...
# echo set up a few of my other things like policy-rc.d, divert initctl, etc
Adding `local diversion of /sbin/initctl to /sbin/initctl.distrib'
# chroot /tmp/docker-mkimage.Ifmq3BC6nl/rootfs apt-get clean
# chroot /tmp/docker-mkimage.Ifmq3BC6nl/rootfs apt-get update
Hit http://archive.debian.org potato/main Packages
Get:1 http://archive.debian.org potato/main Release [95B]
Fetched 95B in 0s (511B/s)
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
# chroot /tmp/docker-mkimage.Ifmq3BC6nl/rootfs apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
# tar --numeric-owner -caf /tmp/docker-mkimage.Ifmq3BC6nl/rootfs.tar.xz -C /tmp/docker-mkimage.Ifmq3BC6nl/rootfs '--transform=s,^./,,' .
# echo write out Dockerfile seen at https://gist.github.com/tianon/11230518#file-dockerfile
FROM scratch
ADD rootfs.tar.xz /
CMD ["/bin/bash"]