npm hangs on some architectures of Alpine Linux

[felddy]

Failing builds

NodeJS	Architecture	Distribution
18.19.0	linus/s390x	Alpine 3.19
20.10.0	linux/s390x	Alpine 3.19
20.10.0	linux/arm/v6	Alpine 3.19
20.10.0	linux/arm/v7	Alpine 3.19

Log output

The builds are failing on the command NODE_DEBUG=* node $(which npm) -v (a verbose version of npm -v.). The builds are limited to a timeout of 3 minutes, at which point they are cancelled by GitHub Actions and generate an error to that regard.

npm-hang-test/.github/workflows/build.yml

Line 34 in 82579ed

timeout-minutes: 3

The s390x builds hang with the last log output being:

#12 4.855 MODULE 1: Module._load REQUEST os parent: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/config/lib/definitions/definitions.js
#12 4.855 MODULE 1: load built-in module os
#12 4.856 MODULE 1: Module._load REQUEST ../type-defs.js parent: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/config/lib/definitions/definitions.js
#12 4.857 MODULE 1: RELATIVE: requested: ../type-defs.js from parent.id /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/config/lib/definitions/definitions.js
#12 4.857 MODULE 1: looking for ["/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/config/lib/definitions"]
Error: The operation was canceled. 

The arm/v6 and arm/v7 both hang without any output after the command:

#12 [8/8] RUN NODE_DEBUG=* node $(which npm) -v
Error: The operation was canceled.

[felddy]

Also related:

• s390x builds failing reusable-workflows#135

[felddy]

Updated description with changes from:

• feat: bump alpine base images tags to 3.19 #7

[felddy]

Possible root causes is in QEMU:

See:

• Docker build with GitHub Actions failed on multi arch with node:alpine nodejs/docker-node#1798 (comment)
  • mremap fails with EFAULT if address range overlaps with stack guard

[felddy]

Temporary workaround:

• Build using Node 18
• Deploy using Node 20

See:

• Docker build hangs for linux/arm/v7 docker/build-push-action#1071