Sonar scanner integrated into Gitlab CI/CD has an error with the node version incompatibility

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Sonar-scanner version 5.0.1.3006

Sonar scanner integrated into Gitlab CI/CD has an error with the node version incompatibility.

ERROR: Error during SonarScanner execution
216java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error while running Node.js. A supported version of Node.js is required for running the analysis of JS/TS files. Please make sure a supported version of Node.js is available in the PATH or an executable path is provided via ‘sonar.nodejs.executable’ property. Alternatively, you can exclude JS/TS files from your analysis using the ‘sonar.exclusions’ configuration property. See the docs for configuring the analysis environment

Caused by: org.sonar.plugins.javascript.nodejs.NodeCommandException: Unsupported Node.JS version detected 16.17. Please upgrade to the latest Node.JS LTS version.

I compared it to the pipeline that passed and found out that it also uses the same version of node (v16.17.0).

I’m not sure if this is related but I also checked this error both on failed and passed pipelines.

ERROR: /home/bitnami/.sonar/js/node-runtime/node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /home/bitnami/.sonar/js/node-runtime/node) 120ERROR: /home/bitnami/.sonar/js/node-runtime/node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.28’ not found (required by /home/bitnami/.sonar/js/node-runtime/node)
121ERROR: /home/bitnami/.sonar/js/node-runtime/node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25’ not found (required by /home/bitnami/.sonar/js/node-runtime/node)

I tried to resolve it by adding this configuration to the sonar-scanner config file but still failed.

sonar.nodejs.executable=/home/bitnami/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/bin/node

File location: /sonar-scanner-5.0.1.3006-linux/conf/sonar-scanner.properties

Content of sonar-scanner.properties

#----- Default SonarQube server
#sonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000
sonar.host.url=https://sonarcloud.io
sonar.login=****
sonar.nodejs.executable=/home/bitnami/.nvm/versions/node/v16.17.0/bin/node
#----- Default source code encoding
#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8

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Hey there.

NodeJS 18.17 is the minimum supported version when you have to provide your own NodeJS binary.

Probably, the build agent or the docker image you’re running on doesn’t support this version of NodeJS. What’s the environment of your build like?