Problem with build Node v0.10.x on ARM Linux

[kkeker]

I am installing this product for instructions https://www.openproject.org/open-source/manual-installation/manual-installation-4-0/ and it requires version node 0.10.x

I tried to compile Node from source on Ubuntu 14 for ARM version node-v0.10.33 and node-v0.10.41 configured both versions are compiled and installed with no problems, but npm does not work!

Example output:
root@odroid-server: ~ # node -v
v0.10.33
root@odroid-server: ~ # npm -v
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[bnoordhuis]

Does e.g. node -e 'console.log(42)' work or does it also segfault? If it segfaults, can you post the output of this?

$ gdb --args node -e 'console.log(42)'
> run
# wait for crash
> thread apply all backtrace full
# ...
> disassemble $pc,$pc+32

Disclaimer: there is no official support for v0.10 on ARM. If you want a version of node.js that is known to work well on ARM, upgrade to v4.x. You can download official release binaries from https://nodejs.org/dist/

[kkeker]

root@odroid-server:/home/openproject# node -e 'console.log(42)'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

root@odroid-server:/home/openproject# gdb --args node -e 'console.log(42)'
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.2) 7.7.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnueabihf".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from node...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/node -e console.log\(42\)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6.0.19-gdb.py", line 63, in <module>
    from libstdcxx.v6.printers import register_libstdcxx_printers
ImportError: No module named 'libstdcxx'
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x00236ba8 in _armv7_tick ()
(gdb) disassemble $pc,$pc+32
Dump of assembler code from 0x236ba8 to 0x236bc8:
=> 0x00236ba8 <_armv7_tick+0>:  mrc     15, 0, r0, cr9, cr13, {0}
   0x00236bac <_armv7_tick+4>:  bx      lr
   0x00236bb0 <OPENSSL_atomic_add+0>:   ldrex   r2, [r0]
   0x00236bb4 <OPENSSL_atomic_add+4>:   add     r3, r2, r1
   0x00236bb8 <OPENSSL_atomic_add+8>:   strex   r2, r3, [r0]
   0x00236bbc <OPENSSL_atomic_add+12>:  cmp     r2, #0
   0x00236bc0 <OPENSSL_atomic_add+16>:  bne     0x236bb0 <OPENSSL_atomic_add>
   0x00236bc4 <OPENSSL_atomic_add+20>:  mov     r0, r3
End of assembler dump.

configure.txt
make.txt

For this task, I can not use node 4.x or node 5.x (by the way there is no problem with them, if you use ready-made binary version), because installer of this project is used to specify a particular version node and npm, I think the reasons for this.

[edit: bnoordhuis - quoted output]

[bnoordhuis]

Can you also post the backtrace?

[bnoordhuis]

Oh, let me amend that: can you type continue a few times until gdb tells you it can't continue? That SIGILL is benign, it's openssl's feature detection.

[kkeker]

I do not understand that I am required to ...

[bnoordhuis]

And I in turn don't quite understand what you're saying... When you get that Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. message, please type continue in gdb - that particular error is benign and can be skipped over.

If that doesn't work for you, start over but type handle SIGILL nostop before you type run.

[kkeker]

root@odroid-server:~# gdb --args node -e 'console.log(42)'
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.2) 7.7.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnueabihf".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from node...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/node -e console.log\(42\)

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
dl_main (phdr=<optimized out>, phnum=<optimized out>, user_entry=<optimized out>, auxv=<optimized out>) at rtld.c:1597
1597    rtld.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program terminated with signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) continue
The program is not being run.
(gdb) disassemble $pc,$pc+32
No registers.

[bnoordhuis]

Can you try handle SIGILL nostop before run?

[silverwind]

Couldn't reproduce this crash on my RPi2 running Arch Linux ARM and node v0.10.41.

[kkeker]

root@odroid-server:~# gdb --args node -e 'console.log(42)'
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.2) 7.7.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnueabihf".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from node...done.
(gdb) handle SIGILL nostop
Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
SIGILL        No        Yes     Yes             Illegal instruction
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/node -e console.log\(42\)

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.

Program terminated with signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) continue
The program is not being run.
(gdb) disassemble $pc,$pc+32
No registers.

[kkeker]

I use this http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143452239825

root@odroid-server:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS \n \l

root@odroid-server:~# uname -a
Linux odroid-server 3.10.82 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 14 01:28:23 BRT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

[kkeker]

This is my test bench, if necessary I can provide access to it, it does not have any value, and then later I will reinstall the operating system, so it can perform any operations without fear.