Dear maintainer,
As you surely have noticed, the latest version of nodejs fails to build
on riscv64. It fails with:
| Clean up any leftover processes but don't error if found.
| ps awwx | grep Release/node | grep -v grep | cat
| Clean up any leftover processes, error if found.
| python3 tools/test.py -p tap --logfile test.tap \
| --mode=release --flaky-tests-mode=dontcare \
| --skip-tests=parallel/test-perf-hooks-sliding-window-histogram,parallel/test-process-versions,parallel/test-cli-node-options-docs,parallel/test-config-file,parallel/test-debugger-probe-typescript,parallel/test-util-getcallsites,parallel/test-worker-eval-typescript,parallel/test-node-output-eval,parallel/test-worker-cli-options,parallel/test-worker-load-file-with-extension-other-than-js,parallel/test-node-output-sourcemaps,parallel/test-runner-output,parallel/test-runner-global-setup-teardow,parallel/test-runner-run-global-hooks,parallel/test-compile-cache-typescript-commonjs,parallel/test-compile-cache-typescript-esm,parallel/test-compile-cache-typescript-strip-miss,parallel/test-compile-cache-typescript-strip-sourcemaps,parallel/test-compile-cache-typescript-transform,parallel/test-npm-install,parallel/test-npm-version,parallel/test-release-npm,parallel/test-dns,parallel/test-net-connect-immediate-finish,parallel/test-net-better-error-messages-port-hostname,parallel/test-https-connect-address-family,parallel/test-tls-connect-address-family,parallel/test-dns-cancel-reverse-lookup,parallel/test-dns-resolveany-bad-ancount,parallel/test-child-process-stdio-overlapped,parallel/test-crypto-authenticated,parallel/test-corepack-yarn-install,parallel/test-corepack-version,test/parallel/test-util-styletext,sequential/test-force-repl,sequential/test-performance,sequential/test-watch-mode,sequential/test-watch-mode-inspect,parallel/test-process-uid-gid,parallel/test-process-initgroups,parallel/test-process-setgroups,parallel/test-process-euid-egid,parallel/test-strace-openat-openssl,parallel/test-fs-error-messages,parallel/test-cluster-bind-privileged-port,parallel/test-cluster-shared-handle-bind-privileged-port,parallel/test-debugger-preserve-breaks,parallel/test-debugger-heap-profiler,parallel/test-fs-utimes,parallel/test-fs-utimes-y2K38,parallel/test-debug-args,sequential/test-cpu-prof-dir-absolute,sequential/test-cpu-prof-exit,parallel/test-inspector-esm,parallel/test-sqlite \
| --arch=riscv64 --timeout=600 --flaky-tests=parallel/test-runner-output,sequential/test-tls-session-timeout,parallel/test-net-listen-after-destroying-stdin,parallel/test-process-config,parallel/test-regress-GH-746,parallel/test-stdout-close-unref,parallel/test-child-process-stdout-flush-exit,parallel/test-net-connect-options-fd,sequential/test-fs-watch,sequential/test-http2-session-timeout,sequential/test-debugger-preserve-breaks,sequential/test-debugger-exec-scope,sequential/test-worker-heapsnapshot-options,parallel/test-cluster-primary-error,parallel/test-cluster-primary-kill,sequential/test-http-server-keep-alive-timeout-slow-client-headers,parallel/test-icu-env,parallel/test-tls-ocsp-callback,sequential/test-diagnostic-dir-cpu-prof,sequential/test-cpu-prof-default,sequential/test-cpu-prof-worker-argv,sequential/test-cpu-prof-dir-and-name,sequential/test-cpu-prof-exit,sequential/test-cpu-prof-kill,sequential/test-cpu-prof-name,sequential/test-diagnostic-dir-cpu-prof,sequential/test-debugger-auto-resume,sequential/test-debugger-preserve-breaks,sequential/test-cpu-prof-dir-relative,sequential/test-cpu-prof-drained,sequential/test-worker-prof,sequential/test-vm-timeout-escape-promise-module-2,sequential/test-cpu-prof-dir-absolute,parallel/test-fetch,parallel/test-net-socket-connect-without-cb,parallel/test-runner-inspect,parallel/test-runner-output,parallel/test-tcp-wrap-listen,parallel/test-wasm-web-api,parallel/test-vm-timeout-escape-promise-module,parallel/test-crypto-sign-verify,parallel/test-freeze-intrinsics,parallel/test-repl-paste-big-data,parallel/test-snapshot-reproducible,parallel/test-tls-root-certificates,parallel/test-vm-global-non-writable-properties,parallel/test-vm-global-setter,parallel/test-vm-module-synthetic,parallel/test-vm-strict-assign,parallel/test-child-process-spawn-typeerror --shell=out/Release/node message parallel sequential
| Can't determine the arch of: 'out/Release/node'
|
| No tests to run.
| make[2]: *** [Makefile:591: test-ci-js] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/tmp.qssLWQ2SLR.nodejs'
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:425: override_dh_auto_test-arch] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/nodejs-24.22.0+dfsg+~cs24.19.2'
| make: *** [debian/rules:348: binary-arch] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-arch subprocess failed with exit status 2
The full build log is available here:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nodejs&arch=riscv64&ver=24.22.0%2Bdfsg%2B%7Ecs24.19.2-2&stamp=1792612093&raw=0
After investigation, it appears that version 24.22.0+dfsg+~cs24.19.2-2
just segfaults on start:
| $ gdb out/Release/node
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| Reading symbols from out/Release/node...
| (gdb) run
| Starting program: /home/aurel32/nodejs/nodejs-24.22.0+dfsg+~cs24.19.2/out/Release/node
| [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
| Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
| bt
| [New Thread 0x3ff0dcff80 (LWP 454149) (id 2)]
| [New Thread 0x3febffef80 (LWP 454150) (id 3)]
| [New Thread 0x3feb7fdf80 (LWP 454151) (id 4)]
| [New Thread 0x3feaffcf80 (LWP 454152) (id 5)]
| [New Thread 0x3fea7fbf80 (LWP 454153) (id 6)]
| [New Thread 0x3ff04fef80 (LWP 454154) (id 7)]
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| Thread 1 "MainThread" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
| 0x0000003ff5467fb6 in std::__atomic_base<long>::load (this=0x20000001f, __m=std::memory_order::relaxed) at /usr/include/c++/16/bits/atomic_base.h:529
| 529 return __atomic_load_n(&_M_i, int(__m));
| (gdb) bt
| #0 0x0000003ff5467fb6 in std::__atomic_base<long>::load (this=0x20000001f, __m=std::memory_order::relaxed) at /usr/include/c++/16/bits/atomic_base.h:529
| #1 std::atomic_load_explicit<long> (__a=0x20000001f, __m=std::memory_order::relaxed) at /usr/include/c++/16/atomic:1372
| #2 v8::base::Relaxed_Load (ptr=0x20000001f) at ../deps/v8/src/base/atomicops.h:347
| #3 v8::base::AsAtomicImpl<long>::Relaxed_Load<unsigned long> (addr=0x20000001f) at ../deps/v8/src/base/atomic-utils.h:87
| #4 v8::internal::TaggedField<v8::internal::SharedFunctionInfo, 32, v8::internal::V8HeapCompressionSchemeImpl<v8::internal::MainCage> >::Relaxed_Load (cage_base=..., host=..., offset=0) at ../deps/v8/src/objects/tagged-field-inl.h:272
| #5 v8::internal::JSFunction::shared (this=<optimized out>, cage_base=...) at ../deps/v8/src/objects/js-function-inl.h:252
| #6 v8::internal::JSFunction::shared (this=<optimized out>, cage_base=...) at ../deps/v8/src/objects/js-function-inl.h:247
| #7 v8::internal::JSFunction::shared (this=<optimized out>) at ../deps/v8/src/objects/js-function-inl.h:246
| #8 v8::internal::__RT_impl_Runtime_InstallBaselineCode (args=..., isolate=0x2aaab82000) at ../deps/v8/src/runtime/runtime-compiler.cc:91
| #9 v8::internal::Runtime_InstallBaselineCode (args_length=1, args_object=0x3fffffe398, isolate=0x2aaab82000) at ../deps/v8/src/runtime/runtime-compiler.cc:87
| #10 0x0000003ff4b12364 in Builtins_CEntry_Return1_ArgvOnStack_NoBuiltinExit () from /home/aurel32/nodejs/nodejs-24.22.0+dfsg+~cs24.19.2/out/Release/libnode.so.137
| Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC
| (gdb)
I have rebuilt version 24.21.0+dfsg+~cs24.13.4-1 in the same
environment, and it works fine, so the issue is not due to a dependency.
I have also been able to reproduce the issue with upstream tag v24.22.0
as well as v24.22.1. On the other hand upstream tag v24.21.0 works fine,
so the issue is not due to a debian change.
I have started bisecting, but it will take some time.
Regards
Aurelien