Installation failure on Ubuntu 20 on AWS ARM server

Suraj Mundada

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Apr 15, 2021, 10:05:09 AM4/15/21

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Hi,

I am new to sysdig. I have installed sysdig and used it successfully on Ubuntu 20.04 on x86_64 servers. However, now I am installing it on Ubuntu 20.04 on AWS ARM server. And it does not work.

For automated installation, I get below error -

* Detecting operating system
Unsupported operating system. Please consider writing to the mailing list at

For manual installation, I get below error -

suraj@new-db-1:~$ sudo apt-get -y install sysdig
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
sysdig is already the newest version (0.26.4-1ubuntu0.2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up sysdig-dkms (0.26.4-1ubuntu0.2) ...
Removing old sysdig-0.26.4 DKMS files...

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 0.26.4
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new sysdig-0.26.4 DKMS files...
Building for 5.4.0-1038-aws 5.4.0-1043-aws
Building initial module for 5.4.0-1038-aws
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/sysdig-dkms.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.4.0-1038-aws (aarch64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/sysdig/0.26.4/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package sysdig-dkms (--configure):
installed sysdig-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
sysdig-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I googled for errors but could not come across any solution.

Can someone help to identify the issue?

Suraj

Suraj Mundada

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Apr 16, 2021, 4:11:27 AM4/16/21

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Hi,

Any help or reference on this issue? I have not been able to use Sysdig on new servers because of this issue.

Regards,

Suraj

Erick de Carty

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Apr 16, 2021, 7:39:36 PM4/16/21

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Hi Suraj,

Sysdig is not yet compatible with ARM architecture; this is probably why you're encountering the error on an AWS ARM Server, but not on the x86.

Kind regards,

Erick

Eric Kitchen

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Dec 13, 2021, 1:57:58 PM12/13/21

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Any idea when arm64 will be supported?

I am on an M1 Mac with Ubuntu 20.xx but was wondering if these instruction will work? https://blog.lanran.work/2021/03/04/install_sysdig/

It might be better to switch the error message from unsupported OS to unsupported architecture followed by the architecture name from uname -m?

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