I’m seeing this same behavior on two different OpenSuse 12.2 x86_64 systems. Nodejs fails with undefined symbol, and I’m not able to get much more info with nodejs-devel and the debug packages gdb wanted installed. Is anyone else seeing the same? Any ideas?
susebox:~ # zypper install nodejs
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
libv8-3 nodejs
2 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 2.7 MiB. After the operation, additional 11.5 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Retrieving package libv8-3-3.16.4.0-1.12.1.x86_64 (1/2), 1.8 MiB ( 7.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: libv8-3-3.16.4.0-1.12.1.x86_64.rpm ..................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving package nodejs-0.6.19-1.1.2.x86_64 (2/2), 992.8 KiB ( 3.8 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: nodejs-0.6.19-1.1.2.x86_64.rpm ......................................................................................................[done]
Installing: libv8-3-3.16.4.0-1.12.1 .............................................................................................................[done]
Installing: nodejs-0.6.19-1.1.2 .................................................................................................................[done]
susebox:~ # npm
node: symbol lookup error: node: undefined symbol: _ZN2v816FunctionTemplate3NewEPFNS_6HandleINS_5ValueEEERKNS_9ArgumentsEES3_NS1_INS_9SignatureEEE
susebox:~ # node
node: symbol lookup error: node: undefined symbol: _ZN2v816FunctionTemplate3NewEPFNS_6HandleINS_5ValueEEERKNS_9ArgumentsEES3_NS1_INS_9SignatureEEE
susebox:~ # rpm -qi nodejs
Name : nodejs
Version : 0.6.19
Release : 1.1.2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed Feb 6 12:49:05 2013
Group : Development/Languages/Other
Size : 3993730
License : MIT
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Mon Jul 16 13:25:19 2012, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : nodejs-0.6.19-1.1.2.src.rpm
Build Date : Mon Jul 16 13:24:42 2012
Build Host : build21
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://www.nodejs.org
Summary : Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript
Description :
Provides an easy way to build scalable network programs
http://nodejs.org
Distribution: openSUSE 12.2
susebox:~ # rpm -qa | grep node
nodejs-debuginfo-0.6.19-1.1.2.x86_64
nodejs-0.6.19-1.1.2.x86_64
susebox:~ # gdb --quiet node
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/node
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff7ff9700 (LWP 8143)]
/usr/bin/node: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/node: undefined symbol: _ZN2v816FunctionTemplate3NewEPFNS_6HandleINS_5ValueEEERKNS_9ArgumentsEES3_NS1_INS_9SignatureEEE
[Thread 0x7ffff7ff9700 (LWP 8143) exited]
[Inferior 1 (process 8140) exited with code 0177]
Missing separate debuginfos, use: zypper install glibc-debuginfo-2.15-22.6.4.x86_64 libgcc47-debuginfo-4.7.1_20120723-1.1.1.x86_64 libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-1.0.1c-2.1.3.x86_64 libstdc++47-debuginfo-4.7.1_20120723-1.1.1.x86_64 zlib-debuginfo-1.2.7-2.1.2.x86_64
(gdb) quit
susebox:~ # zypper install glibc-debuginfo-2.15-22.6.4.x86_64 libgcc47-debuginfo-4.7.1_20120723-1.1.1.x86_64 libopenssl1_0_0-debuginfo-1.0.1c-2.1.3.x86_64 libstdc++47-debuginfo-4.7.1_20120723-1.1.1.x86_64 zlib-debuginfo-1.2.7-2.1.2.x86_64
susebox:~ # gdb --quiet node
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/node...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/node.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/node
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7ffff7ff9700 (LWP 8194)]
/usr/bin/node: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/node: undefined symbol: _ZN2v816FunctionTemplate3NewEPFNS_6HandleINS_5ValueEEERKNS_9ArgumentsEES3_NS1_INS_9SignatureEEE
[Thread 0x7ffff7fd4740 (LWP 8191) exited]
[Inferior 1 (process 8191) exited with code 0177]
susebox:~ # ldd /usr/bin/node
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff7d561000)
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb7a3612000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007fb7a340a000)
libssl.so.1.0.0 => /lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007fb7a31a2000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007fb7a2dcf000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb7a2bcb000)
libv8.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libv8.so.3 (0x00007fb7a2385000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb7a207e000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb7a1d86000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb7a1b70000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb7a1954000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb7a15af000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb7a3828000)