Node 22 node-gyp build fails "Text file busy"

[kode54]

Version

v22.0.0

Platform

Linux laharl 6.9.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 17 May 2024 16:56:38 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

node-gyp

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. Attempted to build thelounge from AUR package
2. sqlite3 submodule fails with two "/usr/bin/env: 'node': Text file busy" errors

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

It happens every time. It appears to be a race condition with io_uring with kernel 6.9.x on x86_64.

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

The packages should build properly.

What do you see instead?

Two of the node-gyp build steps fail:

/usr/bin/env: 'node': Text file busy
/usr/bin/env: 'node': Text file busy

Additional information

I am re-reporting this issue because it does not involve use of Docker. Currently, thelounge package has added a workaround to disable io_uring in libuv to allow the build to pass.

Edit 1:
Related bug reports have suggested this is only a problem because Arch builds nodejs against the system libuv, which it configures with the defaults, which enable io_uring support.

A kernel fix is slated for 6.9.2 that will likely work around the errors, but will not work around Arch or other distributions which have not disabled io_uring support in libuv like node has for security reasons. However, I am not sure how much of a threat model the io_uring support is, considering it's probably not that wise to be running node suid/sgid in the first place.

[dax-dot-gay]

Also having this issue (running node through yarn on arch, kernel version 6.9.1), since a kernel upgrade yesterday.

[victormamede]

Same problem on arch after upgrading the kernel, any type of yarn run triggers the error

[7Z0nE]

On my system any execution of yarn triggers this error with node v22.0.0

[Kocicak]

Hello, after downgrading kernel to 6.8.9, the problem went away.

[santigimeno]

Can you please open an issue in https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues with the specific kernel version/s so we can blacklist them? Thanks

[kvaster]

I've made kernel bisect.

the last good commit: 2708af1adc11700c6c3ce4109e3b133079a36a78
the first bad commit: af5d68f8892f8ee8f137648b79ceb2abc153a19b

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=af5d68f8892f8ee8f137648b79ceb2abc153a19b

[Tatsh]

Also confirming it is definitely af5d68f8892f8ee8f137648b79ceb2abc153a19b after bisecting myself.

[Tatsh]

There is a kernel patch for those interested. Otherwise this will probably be fixed in 6.9.2.

[naskya]

The same issue happens with Node v18 and v20.

$ node --version
v18.20.3

$ npm --version
10.8.0

$ uname --all
Linux localhost 6.9.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 17 May 2024 16:56:38 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ npm install bufferutil
npm error code 126
npm error path /home/naskya/node_modules/bufferutil
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c node-gyp-build
npm error sh: /home/naskya/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp-build: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: Text file busy
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/naskya/.npm/_logs/2024-05-22T08_46_40_033Z-debug-0.log

zen-kernel is unaffected.

$ node --version            
v18.20.3

$ npm --version             
10.8.0

$ uname --all
Linux localhost 6.9.1-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 17 May 2024 16:56:18 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ npm install bufferutil  

added 2 packages in 1s

[kode54]

I have updated the main bug comment with some extra information, indicated with an "Edit" marker above the text. Mainly to hopefully be seen by anyone just arriving at the bug.

[ivan770]

As a temporary workaround it's also possible to use the UV_USE_IO_URING environment variable to disable io_uring support in libuv: UV_USE_IO_URING=0 yarn add bufferutil

[Gabriel-Grechuk]

I don't know if this will help someone, but I'm able to run with no problems after downgrading the node to the version 21.7.3 with the kernel 6.9.1-arch1-1. Don't know if it works for every application though