can't install any packages on arch of linux/arm/v6

[ozbillwang]

Environment

• Platform: linux/arm/v6
• Docker Version: 20.10.11
• Node.js Version: node:alpine ( should be 19)
• Image Tag: node:alpine

Expected Behavior

$ cat Dockerfile

FROM node:alpine

RUN npm install -g uuid

CMD ["semver", "--help"]

# run with multi arch build with buildx
$ docker buildx build --no-cache --platform linux/arm/v6 -t demo .

buid and generate the image for platform linux/arm/v6

Current Behavior

The docker buildx command stuck at npm install -g uuid forever. and it stuck on any npm packages, not only uuid.

I can't build with buildx on platform linux/arm/v6 only, no problem to other platforms, such as

• linux/amd64
• linux/arm/v7
• linux/arm64/v8
• linux/ppc64le
• linux/s390x

The buildx command worked with platform linux/arm/v6 before until 14th Oct. I run weekly build, got this error yesterday. So this problem is related a build chnage between 14th Oct and 21th Oct 2022

run with normal docker build is fine on my macbook (amd64)

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce

$ cat Dockerfile

FROM node:alpine

RUN npm install -g uuid

CMD ["semver", "--help"]

# run with multi arch build with buildx
$ docker buildx build --no-cache --platform linux/arm/v6 -t demo .

# command nerver finished

Additional Information

Weekly build logs for your reference:

https://app.travis-ci.com/github/alpine-docker/semver/builds

[tyranron]

I do have the very similar issue, however in my case, it doesn't build for all the platforms except amd64 and arm64v8, all others just stuck.

CI: https://github.com/instrumentisto/haraka-docker-image/actions/runs/3322510831
Dockerfile: https://github.com/instrumentisto/haraka-docker-image/blob/5eaea6ed27c769763afe3d4d1abd856178b95f82/Dockerfile

UPDATE: Seems that ppc64le and s390x builds are also fine, it's just they took quite a time.

[ozbillwang]

@tyranron

your github action pipeline looks great for multi-arch build. I will take a reference. 👍

Where did you get reference or you did it by yourself? Any documents or URLs for sharing?

[tyranron]

@ozbillwang all done by hand. I'd advise to wait until instrumentisto/haraka-docker-image#3 will be merged, as I dislike the current multi-arch CI pipeline being too monolithic. Would like to have it similar to single-arch builds where each image variant is built and tested independently (and so, errors are more clear, and rerunning takes less time).

[tyranron]

Seems like this is upstream issue: npm/cli#5743

[ozbillwang]

Adjust the base image from node:alpine to node:lts-alpine, it works now

https://app.travis-ci.com/github/alpine-docker/semver/builds/257177983

[tyranron]

@ozbillwang it's only because the issue is with Node 19 images, while LTS is based on Node.js 18.

[ozbillwang]

let's stick on LTS 😁