Hello,
I recently acquired a Gumstix Overo Water with a Tobi and decided to put Node.js on it to turn it into a web server of sorts.
The build dies with an "Illegal instruction" error, and I am thoroughly confused.
In order to set up the build, I did the following: 1. imaged a microSD card with the Linaro binaries indicated by http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Installing_Linaro_Image 2. booted 3. dd'd/enabled 200MB of swap on the SD card 4. apt-get update/upgrade everything 5. installed various development dependencies (git, libc6-dev, g++, and many others) 6. cloned Joyent's repo. 7. modified `wscript` in the repo with V8-specific changes for ARM (including enabling hard-float) (modified the scons invocation in v0.8) 8. ./configure 8. make 9. observed 'illegal instruction' death in the make process:
/root/node/deps/v8/src/arguments.h: In constructor 'v8::internal::CustomArguments::CustomArguments(v8::internal::Isolate*, v8::internal::Object*, v8::internal::Object*, v8::internal::JSObject*)': /root/node/deps/v8/src/arguments.h:93:65: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs for instructions. The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. scons: *** [obj/release/runtime-profiler.o] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors.
If I restart the build, it works fine for a while (including rebuilding the object it died building) then dies again. A different portion of the build is running and it usually receives a segfault:
[ 9/35] cxx: src/node_javascript.cc -> out/Release/src/node_javascript_5.o /usr/bin/g++ -pthread -g -O3 -DHAVE_OPENSSL=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHAVE_FDATASYNC=1 -DARCH="arm" -DPLATFORM="linux" -D__POSIX__=1 -Wno-unused-parameter -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -IRelease/src -I../src -IRelease/deps/http_parser -I../deps/http_parser -IRelease/deps/uv/include -I../deps/uv/include -IRelease/deps/uv/src/ares -I../deps/uv/src/ares -IRelease/deps/v8/include -I../deps/v8/include -Ideps/v8/include ../src/node_javascript.cc -c -o Release/src/node_javascript_5.o g++: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault (program as) Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs for instructions. Waf: Leaving directory `/root/node/out'
I am confused. I've made a few observations about my setup:
* Thinking that it might be a thermal problem because it was under heavy load at 600MHz in open air, I dug out a small heat sink, attached it, and pointed a small fan at it. It now runs cool to the touch. I still get the same 'illegal instruction' deaths under load.
* Usually three invocations of 'make' are required before it actually finishes, but it does finish. I can run the command-line interpreter and it seems to behave inasmuch as I've used it. * 'make test' fails, but I think that's a Node.js/ARM problem. * I run htop to monitor the build, and sometimes the build system works fine while htop dies with an 'illegal instruction' error. * Node.js on ARM is presently somewhat sticky, so I checked out the v0.6.6 tag. v0.6.18 encounters the same problem. v0.8.9 simply segfaults instead. * I have an Overo Water (GS3503W-R2889) on a Tobi. * MLO version: I haven't the foggiest, but I get the U-Boot version string twice, once being before u-boot.bin is loaded. * U-Boot 2012.04.01 (Jul 19 2012 - 17:31:34) * I moved the SD card to a different Water/Tobi pair and I got the same error (illegal instruction, Node.js v0.8.9)
It feels like a task swapping bug in the kernel. Perhaps it's related to errata on the OMAP3530. It could also be read timeouts from the swap file on the SD card, though dmesg doesn't say anything of the sort. I found a kernel patch regarding inconsistent caches on ARM, but it hit in 2.6.33 and I'm running 3.2.1.
Has anyone seen something like this? Would anyone be willing to replicate the problem? I'd be happy to share my tweaks to Node.js' build system to get it to build.
Thanks for reading! Jon Kunkee