Unable to run Kibana-7.2 on ScientificLinux-6

[Dheeraj_Gupta (Dheeraj)]

Hi,

I have been running kibana on an SL-6 system (derivative of Redhat-6). Kibana till 7.1.1 ran perfectly fine but on installing 7.2.0, I get an error

FATAL Error: /lib64/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/share/kibana/node_modules/@elastic/nodegit/build/Release/nodegit.node)

I think this is because kibana-7.2 bundles new version of node.js that requires glibc>2.12 (one bundled with Redhat6). I tried to manually install glibc-2.14 and glibc-2.17 in a custom location. The install worked correctly but I can't tell node to pick those libraries

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.14/lib/ /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node --no-warnings --max-http-header-size=65536 "/usr/share/kibana/src/cli" --allow-root

  log   [11:50:20.627] [fatal][root] Error: /usr/share/kibana/node_modules/@elastic/nodegit/build/Release/nodegit.node: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Operation not permitted

Clearing the executable stack bit

# execstack -c /usr/share/kibana/node_modules/\@elastic/nodegit/build/Release/nodegit.node

and re-running gives a segmentation fault

Using 2.17, gives a different error

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.17/lib/ /usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node --no-warnings --max-http-header-size=65536 "/usr/share/kibana/src/cli" --allow-root
/usr/share/kibana/node/bin/node: error while loading shared libraries: __vdso_time: invalid mode for dlopen(): Invalid argument

Is Redhat-6 no longer officially supported? Or does anyone have pointers on how to get this to work?

Thanks,
Dheeraj

[Marius_Dragomir]

There was an issue in the nodegit dependency that stops it from loading in 7.2.0. There is a fix out for 7.2.1 which should be coming out soon (a week or so).

[Ilia]

Is there any workaround to get rid of this problem before releasing 7.2.1?
A thing like this for another bug in 7.2.0

[Marius_Dragomir]

Yep, the one that you linked would be the workaround.