NodeJS 20 runs an illegal instruction on pre-x86_64-v3 hardware

[Link1J]

Version

20.11.1 (Fedora package version)

Platform

Linux hisoka-morow 5.14.0-362.24.2.el9_3.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Mar 30 14:11:54 EDT 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Install Fedora 40.
Install NodeJS from Fedora repos.
Run node.

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

All the time, as long as the CPU does not support x86-64-v3 Microarchitecture (AKA AVX instructions)

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

Node runs

What do you see instead?

Illegal Instruction (core dumped)

Additional information

I believe the issue was caused by this pull request #50772, because it works fine on Fedora 39, which uses NodeJS 20.10.
There is also this Fedora report, https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/913065/, which matches what I see.

I was running Fedora 40 in a container, which is why the kernel version is not one of Fedora.

[mhdawson]

I assume you you are saying it will fail with node --version versus having to run any specific code right?

@Link1J if you download the community binaries for 20.11.1 from https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz, decompress and untar and then run the same test does it run?

This will show that it is a community issues, versus possibly related to how Fedora is building Node.js

[Link1J]

I assume you you are saying it will fail with node --version versus having to run any specific code right?

Yep. node --version doesn't work. And even trying to open the cli with node doesn't work.

If you download the community binaries for 20.11.1 from https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz, decompress and untar and then run the same test does it run?

It worked. As such, I am going to close this issue, as the problem is clearly not here.

Sorry for the issue.