I'm trying to create/import a new ethereum account using geth, but instead of returning public address, geth returns Killed. I'm using quorumengineering/quorum Docker image on a Kubernetes cluster.

Here's account creation script:

echo -n passwordstring > passwordfile
echo -n 82f74b773d7f948153d7eb8c192bd9819e3e94073d8bdc0e03d659aa42cd34ba > privateKey
geth --datadir . account import --password passwordfile privateKey

Instead of returning created new account's public address, the script returns:

INFO [07-09|16:43:48.932] Maximum peer count                       ETH=25 LES=0 total=25
Killed

Similar error is returned when I try importing or creating account interactively with geth account new followed by kubectl exec -it <pod-name> sh.

Things work fine when I use Quorum docker container (docker run -it --entrypoint="sh" quorumengineering/quorum) in my machine.

EDIT: ethereum/client-go image gives a more descriptive error message

INFO [07-09|19:03:09.094] Bumping default cache on mainnet         provided=1024 updated=4096
WARN [07-09|19:03:09.095] Sanitizing cache to Go's GC limits       provided=4096 updated=1316
INFO [07-09|19:03:09.097] Maximum peer count                       ETH=50 LES=0 total=50
INFO [07-09|19:03:09.098] Smartcard socket not found, disabling    err="stat /run/pcscd/pcscd.comm: no such file or directory"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.098] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=ledger vendor=11415 failcount=1 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=21324 failcount=1 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=4617  failcount=1 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=ledger vendor=11415 failcount=2 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=21324 failcount=2 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:09.099] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=4617  failcount=2 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:10.100] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=4617  failcount=3 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:10.100] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=ledger vendor=11415 failcount=3 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
ERROR[07-09|19:03:10.101] Failed to enumerate USB devices          hub=trezor vendor=21324 failcount=3 err="failed to initialize libusb: libusb: unknown error [code -99]"
Killed

I tried with --nousb flag but no help. I'm trying to enable pcscd.socket following instructions from https://superuser.com/questions/773257/scardestablishcontext-service-not-available