Server crashes on node:alpine images

[Jagdeep1]

Issue Description

Parse server is crashing on Login and Sign up requests for node:9-alpine or any other alpine images. It works fine on node:9 or any other node images.

Steps to reproduce

• Take the latest pull of https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server-example
• Modify Dockerfile - change FROM node:latest to FROM node:9-alpine
• Build and run docker image
• Make signup or login request

Expected Results

Should create new user

Actual Outcome

The server will crash with following trace
Segmentation fault npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 139 npm ERR! parse-server-example@1.4.0 start: node index.js npm ERR! Exit status 139 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the parse-server-example@1.4.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. 2018-03-16T11:00:21.637131130Z npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

Environment Setup

• Server

  • parse-server version (Be specific! Don't say 'latest'.) : [2.7.4]
  • Operating System: [node:9-alpine]
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, Heroku, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc): [localhost]

• Database

  • MongoDB version: [3.2]
  • Storage engine: [FILL THIS OUT]
  • Hardware: [FILL THIS OUT]
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, mLab, ObjectRocket, Digital Ocean, etc): [Remote - cosmosdb]

Logs/Trace

Log output 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start' ] 2 info using npm@5.6.0 3 info using node@v9.7.1 4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ] 5 info lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~prestart: parse-server-example@1.4.0 6 info lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: parse-server-example@1.4.0 7 verbose lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true 8 verbose lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/parse/node_m 9 verbose lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: CWD: /parse 10 silly lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: Args: [ '-c', 'node index.js' ] 11 silly lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: Returned: code: 139 signal: null 12 info lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: Failed to exec start script 13 verbose stack Error: parse-server-example@1.4.0 start: node index.js13 verbose stack Exit status 139 13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:285:16) 13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:127:13) 13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14) 13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:127:13) 13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:936:16) 13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:220:5) 14 verbose pkgid parse-server-example@1.4.0 15 verbose cwd /parse 16 verbose Linux 4.9.60-linuxkit-aufs 17 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start" 18 verbose node v9.7.1 19 verbose npm v5.6.0 20 error code ELIFECYCLE 21 error errno 139 22 error parse-server-example@1.4.0 start:node index.js 22 error Exit status 139 23 error Failed at the parse-server-example@1.4.0 start script. 23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. 24 verbose exit [ 139, true ]

[nbering]

Parse server uses bcrypt, which includes native extensions. Incorrectly-built native extensions are often cause segfaults in NodeJS.

Did your docker build run npm install inside the container, or just copy node_modules from your dev machine?

[nbering]

Apologies... I missed the part where you said you were using the Dockerfile from parse server.

It's probably a similar issue though. From what I've been told, Alpine uses a completely different set of C standard libraries than your typical linux installation. It's part of how they get the image so small.

There's probably some incompatibility between the native extensions in libraries like bcrypt and the alpine distribution. Would be helpful to know which module caused the crash... I'm not close enough to Parse to recognize anything in the error output.

[nbering]

One last thing... do you think you could put the log output in a fenced code block please? It would preserve the spacing and make it easier to read. Fenced codeblocks start and end with three backticks, like this:

```
Log content...
```

[Jagdeep1]

Yes I run yarn to install nnode modues

Now I have tried copying local node_module, and it works fine.

Sorry about the logs, here is formatted

1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@5.6.0
3 info using node@v9.7.1
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~prestart: parse-server-example@1.4.0
6 info lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: parse-server-example@1.4.0
7 verbose lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/parse/node_m
9 verbose lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: CWD: /parse
10 silly lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: Args: [ '-c', 'node index.js' ]
11 silly lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: Returned: code: 139  signal: null
12 info lifecycle parse-server-example@1.4.0~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: parse-server-example@1.4.0 start: `node index.js`
13 verbose stack Exit status 139
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:285:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:127:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:127:13)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:936:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:220:5)
14 verbose pkgid parse-server-example@1.4.0
15 verbose cwd /parse
16 verbose Linux 4.9.60-linuxkit-aufs
17 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
18 verbose node v9.7.1
19 verbose npm  v5.6.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 139
22 error parse-server-example@1.4.0 start: `node index.js`
22 error Exit status 139
23 error Failed at the parse-server-example@1.4.0 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 139, true ]

[samuelantonioli]

For me it was the bcrypt error. Just resorted to node:latest which currently uses Debian Jessie.

If you have a pressing need to use Alpine, let me know and I will investigate.

[flovilmart]

As @nbering mentions, if you want to use node alpine, you’ll need to change the dockerfile so it runs ‘npm install’ and therefore installs all the dependencies for the right architecture. Also, this is an issue with parse-server-example which is not the recommended way to get started.