Cannot load externalized builtin: "internal/deps/cjs-module-lexer/lexer:/usr/lib/node_modules/cjs-module-lexer/lexer.js".

[aswinbennyofficial]

I am getting this error whenever I try to install something from npm

Error

>sudo npm install -g @angular/cli
Cannot load externalized builtin: "internal/deps/cjs-module-lexer/lexer:/usr/lib/node_modules/cjs-module-lexer/lexer.js".
----- Native stack trace -----

 1: 0x7f32e98f472e node::builtins::BuiltinLoader::AddExternalizedBuiltin(char const*, char const*) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 2: 0x7f32e98f4935 node::builtins::BuiltinLoader::BuiltinLoader() [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 3: 0x7f32e98418d7 node::InitializePrimordials(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 4: 0x7f32e9841a08 node::GetPerContextExports(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 5: 0x7f32e98417e8 node::InitializePrimordials(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 6: 0x7f32e9841ae0 node::InitializeMainContextForSnapshot(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 7: 0x7f32e9841b05 node::InitializeContext(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 8: 0x7f32e9841b63 node::NewContext(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::ObjectTemplate>) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
 9: 0x7f32e997c9b4 node::NodeMainInstance::CreateMainEnvironment(node::ExitCode*) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
10: 0x7f32e997cb0d node::NodeMainInstance::Run() [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
11: 0x7f32e98df351 node::Start(int, char**) [/lib64/libnode.so.115]
12: 0x7f32e8c4614a  [/lib64/libc.so.6]
13: 0x7f32e8c4620b __libc_start_main [/lib64/libc.so.6]
14: 0x55f96f486035 _start [node]
Aborted

File versions

• These are the files I downloaded

Installing:
 nodejs                               x86_64              1:20.12.0-1.fc39                         updates               50 k
Installing dependencies:
 nodejs-cjs-module-lexer              noarch              1.2.3-2.fc39                             updates               37 k
 nodejs-libs                          x86_64              1:20.12.0-1.fc39                         updates               15 M
 nodejs-undici                        noarch              6.11.1-2.fc39                            updates              290 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 nodejs-docs                          noarch              1:20.12.0-1.fc39                         updates              8.2 M
 nodejs-full-i18n                     x86_64              1:20.12.0-1.fc39                         updates              8.4 M
 nodejs-npm                           x86_64              1:10.5.0-1.20.12.0.1.fc39                updates              2.2 M

Things I tried:

• On reinstall it works, but same error after installing any package
• Tried restarting
• Tried logout

System Details Report

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Report details

• Date generated: 2024-04-15 10:11:23

Hardware Information:

• Hardware Model: HP HP Notebook
• Memory: 8.0 GiB
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-5005U × 4
• Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
• Graphics 1: HAINAN
• Disk Capacity: 1.2 TB

Software Information:

• Firmware Version: F.47
• OS Name: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
• OS Build: (null)
• OS Type: 64-bit
• GNOME Version: 45.5
• Windowing System: Wayland
• Kernel Version: Linux 6.8.4-200.fc39.x86_64

[guybedford]

//cc @mochaaP this seems like it may be related to your recent work. Will the release of #91 help here?

[mochaaP]

We haven't cooperated that change in any released versions yet, both in nodejs20 and nodejs-cjs-module-lexer. Also, this seems to be a distro-specific issue, so please raise it in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Besides, I could not reproduce this on f39 with the following packages:

nodejs-docs-1:20.12.0-1.fc39.noarch
libuv-1:1.48.0-1.fc39.x86_64
nodejs-libs-1:20.12.0-1.fc39.x86_64nodejs-undici-6.11.1-2.fc39.noarch
nodejs-cjs-module-lexer-1.2.3-2.fc39.noarch
nodejs-full-i18n-1:20.12.0-1.fc39.x86_64
nodejs-npm-1:10.5.0-1.20.12.0.1.fc39.x86_64
nodejs-1:20.12.0-1.fc39.x86_64 

Does your root filesystem support symlinks? /usr/lib/node_modules should be a symlink to node_modules_20 on Fedora 39+ and RHEL 10+.

[mochaaP]

Oh, I recalled what's the issue here. libuv made io_uring default from a while ago, and it got merged into Node.js. Unfortunately, the implementation (kernel? libuv?) is currently buggy and had various quirks when doing file I/Os. A workaround is to set UV_USE_IO_URING=0 in your environment variables.

[mochaaP]

Seemed to be a kernel regression. Tested with a clean f39 podman container on 6.9.0-0.rc4.37.fc41.x86_64, works well. @aswinbennyofficial Could you test it on Fedora 40?

[aswinbennyofficial]

@mochaaP I havent installed fedora 40 yet.

I have created a bug report on bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2276166

[mochaaP]

@guybedford since this isn't a cjs-module-lexer issue but a kernel/libuv/node one, we can close this here.

[aswinbennyofficial]

Oh, I recalled what's the issue here. libuv made io_uring default from a while ago, and it got merged into Node.js. Unfortunately, the implementation (kernel? libuv?) is currently buggy and had various quirks when doing file I/Os. A workaround is to set UV_USE_IO_URING=0 in your environment variables

I tried this still was having the same error

[mochaaP]

Forwarding from rhbz.

---

OK, I figured this out.

You are running npm as root and your npmrc sets prefix=/usr, which overrides /usr/lib/> node_modules to a folder instead of a symlink.
Please don't install npm packages globally, at least not installing to /usr/lib.

[mochaaP]

/tag invalid
/close

[mdx0111]

I can confirm that this is happening with Fedora 40 as well.

[rhass]

Also present in Fedora 41.

Steps to reproduce:

docker run --rm -it fedora:41
dnf install -y nodejs18 nodejs18-npm
npm-18 --version
Cannot load externalized builtin: "internal/deps/cjs-module-lexer/lexer:/usr/lib/node_modules/cjs-module-lexer/lexer.js".
 1: 0x7b39a1be954c node::Abort() [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 2: 0x7b39a1bddb76  [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 3: 0x7b39a1bddcfc node::builtins::BuiltinLoader::BuiltinLoader() [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 4: 0x7b39a1b3e274 node::InitializePrimordials(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 5: 0x7b39a1b3e3a8 node::GetPerContextExports(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 6: 0x7b39a1b3e198 node::InitializePrimordials(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 7: 0x7b39a1b3e480 node::InitializeMainContextForSnapshot(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 8: 0x7b39a1b3e4a5 node::InitializeContext(v8::Local<v8::Context>) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
 9: 0x7b39a1b3e503 node::NewContext(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::ObjectTemplate>) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
10: 0x7b39a1c49a24 node::NodeMainInstance::CreateMainEnvironment(int*) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
11: 0x7b39a1c49bab node::NodeMainInstance::Run() [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
12: 0x7b39a1bbd1a3 node::LoadSnapshotDataAndRun(node::SnapshotData const**, node::InitializationResult const*) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
13: 0x7b39a1bbd649 node::Start(int, char**) [/lib64/libnode.so.108]
14: 0x7b39a10cf248  [/lib64/libc.so.6]
15: 0x7b39a10cf30b __libc_start_main [/lib64/libc.so.6]
16: 0x60d4ed16e035 _start [/usr/bin/node-18]
Aborted (core dumped)

Edit:

As mentioned by mochaaP; I think this is an issue in the underlying OS implementation/packaging.

[mochaaP]

This is because the symlink /usr/lib/node_modules -> /usr/lib/node_modules_<default_major_version> is provided by package nodejs. Please report this at rhbz so we could track it, thanks!