Instant crash with "Aw, snap!" text

[pure-bliss]

NDB window crashes with "Aw, snap!" text instantly when started.

• Clicking 'Learn more' or 'Reload' does nothing.
• Pressing F12 pops up the dev tools in a new window, but closes instantly.
• The process meant to be debugged doesn't seem to start either
• Nothing is printed to terminal.
• At first start it downloads Chromium r624492
• chromium browser installed by linux package manager works
• The window-s title is: _text/html,%0A <title></title>%0A <style>html{background:%23242424;}</style>%0A <script>self.paramsForReuse = {"data":"eyJjd2QiOiJmaWxlOi8vL21lZGlhL2RhdGEvUHJvamVjdHMvanMvbmRidGVzdCIsImFyZ3YiOlsiL3Vzci9iaW4vbm9kZSIsIi9tZWRpYS9kYXRhL1Byb2plY3RzL2pzL25kYnRlc3Qvbm9kZV9tb2R1bGVzLy5iaW4vbmRiIiwiaW5kZXguanMiXSwibm9kZUV4ZWNQYXRoIjoiL3Vzci9iaW4vbm9kZSJ9"};</script>

Maybe the most important part:

Core dump in journal

febr 19 21:23:15 { pc name } systemd-coredump[155586]: [🡕] Process 155571 (chrome) of user 1000 dumped core.
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  Stack trace of thread 2:
  #0  0x00007fdf67fa43c6 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8d3c6)
  #1  0x00007fdf68029584 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x112584)
  
  Stack trace of thread 3:
  #0  0x00007fdf67fa43c6 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8d3c6)
  #1  0x00007fdf68029584 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x112584)
  
  Stack trace of thread 1:
  #0  0x00007fdf68029576 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x112576)
  #1  0x0000000000000000 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
  ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

The started processes look like (after crash):

npm run debug
└─ node /media/data/Projects/js/ndbtest/node_modules/.bin/ndb index.js
   └─ chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disabl { ... }
      ├─ chrome --type=zygote --user-data-dir=/media/data/Projects/js/ndbtest/node_modules/carlo/lib/.local-data/profile-624492
      │  ├─ nacl_helper
      │  └─ chrome --type=zygote --user-data-dir=/media/data/Projects/js/ndbtest/node_modules/carlo/lib/.local-data/profile-624492
      └─ chrome --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=11608324376951962078,10158578646079337087,131072 --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkSer { ... }

Steps to reproduce

npm init
npm install --save-dev ndb

add "debug": "ndb index.js" to package.json

echo "console.log('hi')" > index.js
npm run debug

The same happens when tried on a larger, more complex expres.js based project.

Tell us about your environment:

$ node_modules/.bin/ndb --version
v1.1.5
$ node --version
v17.4.0
$ npm --version
8.5.0
$ uname -a
Linux { pc name } 5.15.24-1-lts #1 SMP Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:04:21 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ chromium --version
Chromium 98.0.4758.102 Arch Linux

I tried installing google-chrome, in hope that it might install some missing packages / libraries, but nothing changed.

What is the expected result?
The NDB debugger window works, and doesn't show the 'Aw, snap!' crash text

What happens instead?
The NDB debugger window crashes with 'Aw, snap!' text

Note
90% this is not an issue with NDB, so sorry for that, but still would like to ask the community for directions

[GoranTopic]

Same problem on Fedora Linux 36. Is there anything to be done?

[stolpeo]

Same problem here on Ubuntu 22.04. Has anyone found a solution?

[paulirish]

The project hasn't been maintained since 2019, sadly. The feature set is fantastic but.. the original creator left and theres no one to maintain it.

Also.. yeah.. ndb is broken in a few ways.

Yeah you should use the --inspect-brk setup these days.

[pure-bliss]

Yeah you should use the --inspect-brk setup these days.

The original reason I found ndb, is because I wanted to debug worker threads, and couldn't find any other solution back then. I didn't need to user worker threads since then, but wonder if there is a method for this

[eugeneo]

I believe VS Code can do it and IntelliJ can do it.

[eugeneo]

Oh, and Chrome Web Inspector.

[pure-bliss]

node processes worker-threads? Neat, I'll have to look into it. Don't use vscode or intellij, but I'm sure there is a standalone solution