docker-node: npm hangs on linux/s390x containers

Environment

Platform: linux/s390x
Docker Version: 24.0.6, build ed223bc
Node.js Version: 18
Image Tag:18-alpine

Expected Behavior

npm install runs and packages are installed.

Current Behavior

Trying to build a container on the linux/s309x platform hangs running npm install with npm consuming 100% CPU.

Previous builds complete in less than 5mins, current build has been running for over an hour

We are building the https://github.com/node-red/node-red-docker container with

docker buildx build --platform linux/s390x --file .docker/Dockerfile.alpine --build-arg NODE_VERSION=18 .

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce

Check out https://github.com/node-red/node-red-docker
cd node-red-docker
run docker buildx build --platform linux/s390x --file .docker/Dockerfile.alpine --build-arg NODE_VERSION=18 .

Additional Information

Same thing is happening with 14-alpine and 16-alpine tags

I’m hitting this both locally and in a GH Action, both of which use Qemu to support building for alternate architectures.

About this issue

Original URL
State: open
Created 9 months ago
Comments: 22 (2 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Remove s390x platform build, because of qemu bug Issue: https://github.com/nodejs/docker-node/issues/1973 — committed to mendhak/docker-http-https-echo by mendhak 7 months ago

Most upvoted comments

report the similar in ticket #1946

ozbillwang on Nov 15, 2023

I’ve been playing with this again (as it’s still a problem). I’ve been using AWS EC2 machines to try out a few different options.

It fails on Both Intel and AMD based x86_64 hardware
It fails on AWS Arm64 hardware as well
It fails with the latest 8.0.6 qemu builds (as provided by the qemu-v8.0.4 tag of tonistiigi/binfmt
I’ve tried Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.10 base OS builds

hardillb on Dec 26, 2023

@hardillb seems like after moby/buildkit#1516 we may omit using setup-qemu-action, because BuildKit supports QEMU emulation out-of-the-box. Even more, judging by onistiigi/binfmt Docker image tags, newer version of QEMU are released for buildkit- images only. The last one is 7.1.0.

However, for my repository the result is still the same, no matter which version is used: 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 7.0.0, 7.1.0 or master.

tyranron on Oct 5, 2023

OK, while this appears to be limited to when running builds using qemu, this is going to be the default way 99% of CI builds run that target s390x, so I think we still need to track this down, even if it’s just to raise a sensible upstream issue against qemu.

What debug options can I enable to try and get some useful debug information here?
Would trying to connect GDB to the spinning process help?

hardillb on Oct 5, 2023

master doesn’t appear to fix it for me, testing 6.1.0

hardillb on Oct 4, 2023