How could process.nextTick throw "RangeError: Invalid array length"

Question

Here is a stack trace for an error I started receiving in my Node.js application:

"RangeError: Invalid array length",
"    at onwrite (_stream_writable.js:265:15)",
"    at WritableState.onwrite (_stream_writable.js:96:5)",
"    at Socket._write (net.js:653:5)",
"    at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:225:10)",
"    at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:215:5)",
"    at Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:182:11)",
"    at Socket.write (net.js:615:40)",

(this is longjohn output)

Here is the offending line: https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/v0.10.31/lib/_stream_writable.js#L265

What could possibly cause this? Is it true that there's no way for my application source to have directly caused it because it's the call to process.nextTick that throws the error?

Answer 1

This was caused by our usage of longjohn. Issue filed at https://github.com/mattinsler/longjohn/issues/42 . Fix submitted at https://github.com/mattinsler/longjohn/pull/43