npm getting Illegal instruction (core dumped)

[ygator]

I just installed npm and when I ran it I got:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# npm -V
node: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.56: cannot open shared
')

The library did not exist so I found that it was in package icu so I did:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# pacman -S icu')

Now when I run npm I get:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# npm -V
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
')

I am running on a dockstar and am attempting to install deployd, but I see in another thread that there may also be some kind of an issue with mongodb as well.

[WarheadsSE]

You should do a full upgrade at this point. If npm, which needs icu, didn't have it installed, you've got a system out of sync.

Do that, then come back.

[ygator]

Sorry for the confusion.

The systems were also fully updated with pacman -Syyu

On a fully updated system I got the error. I then went to a system that was not yet fully updated and tried npm there. It was not installed so I installed it. That is when I got the library error. I reported that since I would have thought that the library would be a dependency of the package. So I updated the library myself and still got the error.
I then fully updated this system as well and still get the error.

[WarheadsSE]

I will attempt to replicate as I have time. Might take me a day.

[ygator]

Any luck on this?

[wobble]

Fwiw, node has always been hit or miss on my pogoplug e02. The last version that reliably works for me is 0.10.36-3.

This version is sufficient for me, so I just ignore updates. If you could live with that version as well, you might want to give it a try. (I just assume that error is really with node and not with npm, if that's not true for your case then just ignore this post).

[ygator]

Yes, running node also gives "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".
I tried out past versions I had in the pacman cache and either they gave illegal instruction or segmentation fault.
The latest one I had that brought up the node prompt was nodejs-0.10.36-2-arm.pkg.tar.xz.

Looking on the nodejs site I see they have some ARM binaries, but only for arm 6,7, and 8. They do not have 5 which is what the dockstar has.