Node gets instantly killed - MacOS

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I've been trying to debug why is this happening and how can I fix it so that i can work! The problem looks like this:

➜  ~ node
[1]    2912 killed     node

It happens with yarn and npm so i assumed its node. I cant find any node mention in /var/log/system.log. I tried reinstalling node via brew but error persists. I reinstalled yarn as well. What else can I do find out why this is hapening? Where is this being logged to?

BTW: I'm not running out of memory, i have available ram and hard disk space

I opened the "Console" utility app and found this error when i try to start nodejs:

proc 4298: load code signature error 2 for file "node"

Thanks

node.js crash macos
3 Answers

FIXED

I fixed by completely removing node and reinstalling via nvm

user_34955530

I had exactly the same issue on new Macos Big Sur and I fixed this problem by following those steps, I hope it will save someone's time:

This is what I was getting

➜  ~ node
[1]    12187 killed     node

In the Console I found that error message pointed to icu4c

CODE SIGNING: process 11193[node]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x1047f4000 from offset 0x0 in file "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/icu4c/67.1/lib/libicui18n.67.1.dylib" (cs_mtime:1614412395.998493416 == mtime:1614412395.998493416) (signed:1 validated:1 tainted:1 nx:0 wpmapped:0 dirty:0 depth:0)

so I uninstalled the node and icu4c packages (if you have yarn, you may also want to uninstall it)

➜  ~ brew uninstall node
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/15.10.0... (3,390 files, 54.9MB)
➜  ~ brew uninstall icu4c
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/icu4c/67.1... (258 files, 72.4MB)

then I ran one additional command, just to remove anything that's not needed. brew cleanup

after that I ran brew install node and it started working! Here's a log from my terminal:

➜  ~ brew install node
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/icu4c-67.1.arm64_big_sur.bo
Already downloaded: /Users/pgoca/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/0ead47d11680c7b6ed4d76eb2a934878314e34e9ac979b5306b6fb7a1ac3f8ae--icu4c-67.1.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/node-15.10.0.arm64_big_sur.
Already downloaded: /Users/pgoca/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/5e38af944729bd333a4217bf8327099595ebec3a5e7c5eb1029399555828e39b--node-15.10.0.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
==> Installing dependencies for node: icu4c
==> Installing node dependency: icu4c
==> Pouring icu4c-67.1.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
icu4c is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /opt/homebrew,
because macOS provides libicucore.dylib (but nothing else).

If you need to have icu4c first in your PATH, run:
  echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
  echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

For compilers to find icu4c you may need to set:
  export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/include"

==> Summary
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/icu4c/67.1: 258 files, 72.4MB
==> Installing node
==> Pouring node-15.10.0.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/15.10.0: 3,390 files, 54.9MB
==> Caveats
==> icu4c
icu4c is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /opt/homebrew,
because macOS provides libicucore.dylib (but nothing else).

If you need to have icu4c first in your PATH, run:
  echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
  echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

For compilers to find icu4c you may need to set:
  export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/icu4c/include"

➜  ~ node
Welcome to Node.js v15.10.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
>
user_80613520

I am on the M1 Mac Mini. The solution for me was to reinstall Homebrew. Steps:

  1. Run the official uninstall script: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"
  2. Clean up: sudo rm -rf /opt/homebrew
  3. Fresh install: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  4. brew install node
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