"(sudo) make" dumps core on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit

[swgillespie]

First off, I want to say thank you for this awesome resource. I'm just getting started with nodejs and this repo has been a huge help along the way.

However, I am having trouble building this project; the makefile dumps core and aborts before installing the github dependencies. Here is what I have been doing to reproduce the core dump that I am experiencing:

git clone https://github.com/gravityonmars/nodejs-starter.git nodejs-starter-test
cd nodejs-starter-test
sudo make &> output.txt

I posted the content of my output.txt here: https://gist.github.com/swgillespie/6742914/raw/7b48b24d0a8deb654d35cd3e5b2de928049b115d/gistfile1.txt .

Is anybody else having this issue? It seems weird that it is node itself that is failing an assertion and core dumping.

Other relevant things:

$ npm version
{ http_parser: '1.0',
  node: '0.11.6-pre',
  v8: '3.20.14.1',
  uv: '0.11.7',
  zlib: '1.2.3',
  modules: '0x000C',
  openssl: '1.0.1e',
  npm: '1.3.8',
  'nodejs-starter': '0.0.1' }

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[cristiandouce]

I see you are using a nodejs version that is not considered stable at the moment.
Current official stable version is v0.10.19

@swgillespie Could you retry with that?
Thanks for the report!

[swgillespie]

Thanks for the response! I ran

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs=0.10.19-1chl1~raring1
sudo mv `which nodejs` `which node` # wtf apt-get???
git clone https://github.com/gravityonmars/nodejs-starter.git nodejs-starter-test
cd nodejs-starter-test/
sudo make

and the build was successful. There is some serious weirdness going on with how npm interacts with node and how apt-get installs node. I think "apt-get install nodejs" installs a binary called "nodejs", and npm and everything else uses the binary "node". Thanks for the help! I'll look into reporting the core dump to node.

[cristiandouce]

Cool! I'm glad it worked! Closing this now.
Thanks!