New comment by ejolson2005 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/23418#issuecomment-654397740 Comment: Right. You've convinced me the problem is not with PIE. I now have some success with proot but may set up the magic numbers in the kernel. Thanks for the quick help for a newbie at this, let's consider this issue closed. I am still a bit confused, because outside of the chroot environment I have no problem running statically linked ARM binaries on the x86 system. I thought binfmt-support set up the magic numbers in the kernel, but I guess I don't know much about how QEMU user-mode works. Again thanks!