example.js failed under solaris

[yuxiangning]

Hi there,

I'm playing with nodejs (v0.10.25) on Solaris, while I met a problem running my first script copied from the homepage:

$ node example.js
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: listen Unknown system errno 98
at errnoException (net.js:901:11)
at Server._listen2 (net.js:1020:19)
at listen (net.js:1061:10)
at Server.listen (net.js:1135:5)
at Object. (/home/xiangyu/node-v0.10.25-sunos-x86/example.js:5:4)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)

Something might be wrong when passing the second argument to the socket API, which should be SOCK_STREAM IMHO:

$ truss -f node example.js
...
104667/1: so_socket(PF_INET, 1572866, IPPROTO_IP, 0, SOV_XPG4_2) Err#98 EPROTOTYPE
...

Is this a known issue? Thank you!

• yxn

[indutny]

Have you built node yourself, or are you using existing binaries? Also what Solaris version are you using?

[jperkin]

I am seeing this too on SmartOS joyent_20130322T181205Z, using the node-v0.10.25-sunos-x64.tar.gz binary from nodejs.org

[indutny]

@tjfontaine perhaps a build problem?

[rmustacc]

In general, you can't run on a system older than the one you build on. In this case, illumos added support for SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK, so what we're likely seeing is node trying to use that on a platform which doesn't support it. The binary builds need to happen on the oldest supported platform.

[indutny]

Ok, thank you @rmustacc . I could only suggest you guys to do a build yourself on that machines, it should be working just fine, and if it doesn't - let us know in a separate issue!