AWS Lambda: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory'
I’ve been working on an AWS lambda job to convert a HTML page to PDF using a Python wrapper around the wkhtmltopdf library but ended up with the following error when I tried to execute it:
b'/bin/sh: ./binary/wkhtmltopdf: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory\n': Exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/handler.py", line 33, in generate_certificate
wkhtmltopdf(local_html_file_name, local_pdf_file_name)
File "/var/task/lib/wkhtmltopdf.py", line 64, in wkhtmltopdf
wkhp.render()
File "/var/task/lib/wkhtmltopdf.py", line 56, in render
raise Exception(stderr)
Exception: b'/bin/sh: ./binary/wkhtmltopdf: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory\n'It turns out this is the error you get if you run a 32 bit binary on a 64 bit operating system which is what AWS uses.
If you are using any native binaries in your code, make sure they are compiled in this environment. Note that only 64-bit binaries are supported on AWS Lambda.
I changed to the 64 bit binary and am now happily converting HTML pages to PDF.
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