Node not installing on fresh Ubuntu (18.04) install in kvm

[cstpraveen]

Version

v16.20.0

Platform

Linux user 4.15.0-210-generic 221-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 18 08:32:52 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Executed below command

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

No response

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

Expected behaviour is to see the npm version, but instead facing error.

What do you see instead?

$ node -v
v16.20.0

$ npm -v
node:buffer:599
    slice: (buf, start, end) => buf.utf8Slice(start, end),
                                    ^

RangeError: Index out of range
    at Object.slice (node:buffer:599:37)
    at Buffer.toString (node:buffer:819:14)
    at Object.readFileSync (node:fs:502:41)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1213:18)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1074:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:909:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:22:47 {
  code: 'ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE'
}

Additional information

No response

[bnoordhuis]

Duplicate of #33503, #34709, #42215 and possibly more. You're hitting a kvm/qemu bug, not a node bug.