XLSX.read() not working.

[ashu-daffodil]

Hi
I'm using Cent Os 7 on linode server and getting "Segmentation fault ".

var xlsx = XLSX.read(file.data, {type: "binary"});

[notatestuser]

Are you running node v0.10.31? There appears to be a non-fixable issue with this version, see #100.

[SheetJSDev]

@ashu-daffodil this issue ultimately stems from an issue with nodejs 0.10.31:

• Getting a segmentation fault Stuk/jszip#166 (XLSX uses jszip to handle the zip container)
• Segfault in linux in js-git nodeca/pako#36 (jszip uses pako for the underlying DEFLATE algorithm)
• Segfault 11 on 0.10.31 nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8208

The command-line utility xlsx shows an error message on 0.10.31:

$ sudo n 0.10.30 # using https://www.npmjs.org/package/n
$ xlsx test.xlsx
Sheet1
foo,bar,baz
1,2,3

$ sudo n 0.10.31
$ xlsx test.xlsx
node v0.10.31 is known to crash on OSX and Linux, refusing to proceed.
see https://github.com/SheetJS/j/issues/4 for the relevant discussion.
see https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/8208 for the relevant node issue

@notatestuser the aforementioned message is in the nodejs script and explicitly checks for the node version: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx/blob/master/bin/xlsx.njs#L38-L47 Is this something worth adding to the main script?

[notatestuser]

Hi @SheetJSDev, yeah, I think so... at least to be shown as a warning message when the library is imported.

[ashu-daffodil]

Ya its v0.10.31.
I'm rolling back to v0.10.28