nodejs exits with Illegal instruction

[Bart Overkamp]

# nodejs
Illegal instruction

# nodejs --version
v0.10.26

Installed from official repository in jessie release on Raspberry Pi model B

expected:

nodejs interactive javascript server starts

Any clues to fix this?
I'll try building/compiling the package myself, but due to a lack of cross-compile hosts I'll do it on the pi itself.

Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
Release: testing
Codename: jessie
Architecture: armv6l

Kernel: Linux 3.10.25+ (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nodejs depends on:
ii libc-ares2 1.10.0-2
ii libc6 2.18-5
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.0-2
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1g-3
ii libstdc++6 4.9.0-2
ii libv8-3.14.5 3.14.5.8-8
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

nodejs recommends no packages.

nodejs suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[peter green (plugwash)]

Doing some checks in gdb it looks like the v8 JIT is generating movw/movt which are armv7 specific instructions.

[peter green (plugwash)]

Appears to be a build configuration problem in source package libv8-3.14

[peter green (plugwash)]

building modified libv8-3.14 package, will test soon but right now it's way past bedtime.

[peter green (plugwash)]

A fixed version of the libv8-3.14 source package and associated binary packages has now been uploaded and should hit the public repo in the next update run.

[Bart Overkamp (bart-launchpad-7)]

I can confirm the fix:

root@pi:/home/pi# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libv8-3.14-dev libv8-3.14.5
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,160 kB of archives.
After this operation, 64.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main libv8-3.14-dev armhf 3.14.5.8-8+rpi1 [108 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main libv8-3.14.5 armhf 3.14.5.8-8+rpi1 [1,052 kB]
Fetched 1,160 kB in 0s (1,442 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 42432 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libv8-3.14-dev_3.14.5.8-8+rpi1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libv8-3.14-dev (3.14.5.8-8+rpi1) over (3.14.5.8-8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libv8-3.14.5_3.14.5.8-8+rpi1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libv8-3.14.5 (3.14.5.8-8+rpi1) over (3.14.5.8-8) ...
Setting up libv8-3.14.5 (3.14.5.8-8+rpi1) ...
Setting up libv8-3.14-dev (3.14.5.8-8+rpi1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.18-7) ...
root@pi:/home/pi# nodejs
> console.log("Awesome!")
Awesome!