A VM guest fails to boot with "xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab" (Doc ID 1501967.1)

Last updated on JULY 16, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle VM - Version 3.0.1 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

VM guest failed to bootup, reporting the following kind of error on stdout :

Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab\n')

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