grpc_node.node: undefined symbol: OPENSSL_init_ssl

Problem description

PANIC on scl NODE EL7.

Reproduction steps

> new grpc.Client('localhost', grpc.credentials.createSsl(Buffer.alloc(1))).waitForReady(Date.now(), ()=>{}); 
undefined
> node: symbol lookup error: /xx/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v72-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node: undefined symbol: OPENSSL_init_ssl

Environment

grpc@1.24.3

$ node -v
v12.18.2
$ which node
/opt/rh/rh-nodejs12/root/usr/bin/node
$ rpm -qf /opt/rh/rh-nodejs12/root/usr/bin/node
rh-nodejs12-nodejs-12.18.2-1.el7.x86_64
$ rpm -qi rh-nodejs12-nodejs-12.18.2-1.el7.x86_64
Name        : rh-nodejs12-nodejs
Version     : 12.18.2
Release     : 1.el7
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Tue 25 Aug 2020 03:49:13 AM CDT
Group       : Development/Languages
Size        : 35528528
License     : MIT and ASL 2.0 and ISC and BSD
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:16:17 AM CDT, Key ID 4eb84e71f2ee9d55
Source RPM  : rh-nodejs12-nodejs-12.18.2-1.el7.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:42:40 AM CDT
Build Host  : c1bk.rdu2.centos.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : CBS <[e-mail]>
Vendor      : CentOS
URL         : http://nodejs.org/
Summary     : JavaScript runtime
Description :
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime
for easily building fast, scalable network applications.
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that
makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive
real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
$ ldd /opt/rh/rh-nodejs12/root/usr/bin/node
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffd236ff000)
        libcrypto.so.10 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.10 (0x00007f73dfc4b000)
        libssl.so.10 => /lib64/libssl.so.10 (0x00007f73df9d9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f73df7d5000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f73df4ce000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f73df1cc000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f73defb6000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f73ded9a000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f73de9cc000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f73de7b6000)
        libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007f73de569000)
        libkrb5.so.3 => /lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007f73de280000)
        libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007f73de07c000)
        libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007f73dde49000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f73e00ae000)
        libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007f73ddc39000)
        libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007f73dda35000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f73dd81b000)
        libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007f73dd5f4000)
        libpcre.so.1 => /lib64/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f73dd392000)

To get SCL ver installed:

yum --enablerepo=extras install centos-release-scl-rh
yum install rh-nodejs12

Additional context

This is happening both with bundled binary from June 4th and with extension that’s been compiled from source on this machine. WTF guys this is extremely unexpected and is impeding deployment.

[murgatroid99]

According to this documentation, “The OPENSSL_init_ssl() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.0.” The most likely cause of this error is that you have an earlier version of OpenSSL. I suggest upgrading your OpenSSL installation.

Alternatively, you may want to use @grpc/grpc-js instead of grpc. We created that package to avoid these kinds of problems.

[celesteking]

We’ve got lost in translation. You should be more on fresh air. Have I not been so pushy, it would’ve stopped at comment #3 and nothing would’ve been done regarding this bug. Closing as this has been taken care of by grpc upstream and will hopefully land back into this repo soon. Thanks.