macOS Node 23: "internal-data-bridge" threw an error while running the sourceNodes lifecycle: "length" is outside of buffer bounds

[domdomegg]

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Description

Building a Gatsby app on MacOS with Node 23 doesn't work, giving an error about internal-data-bridge (full logs below)

Reproduction Link

https://github.com/domdomegg/gatsby-39223-mre

(you can see failure logs in the GitHub actions run too)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use a Mac
2. Install Homebrew, and node with brew install node (Node 23)
3. Follow the TypeScript quick start, running npm init gatsby -- -y -ts gatsby-repro
4. Attempt to build the app: cd gatsby-repro && npm run build

Expected Result

The site builds correctly

Actual Result

The build fails with an error

Logs

npm run build

> [email protected] build
> gatsby build


 ERROR  UNKNOWN

(node:68895) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative
instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

⠦ compile gatsby files

 ERROR  UNKNOWN

(node:68936) [DEP0040] DeprecationWarning: The `punycode` module is deprecated. Please use a userland alternative
instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

success compile gatsby files - 0.686s
success load gatsby config - 0.009s
success load plugins - 0.071s
success onPreInit - 0.000s
success initialize cache - 0.049s
success copy gatsby files - 0.038s
success Compiling Gatsby Functions - 0.148s
success onPreBootstrap - 0.156s
success createSchemaCustomization - 0.001s

 ERROR #11321  API.NODE.EXECUTION

"internal-data-bridge" threw an error while running the sourceNodes lifecycle:

"length" is outside of buffer bounds



  Error: RangeError [ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS]: "length" is outside of buffer bounds
  
  - buffer:1066 Buffer.utf8Write
    node:internal/buffer:1066:13
  
  - node.cjs:1093 Packr.encodeUtf8
    [gatsby-repro]/[msgpackr]/dist/node.cjs:1093:18
  
  - node.cjs:1322 pack
    [gatsby-repro]/[msgpackr]/dist/node.cjs:1322:15
  
  - node.cjs:1647 Packr.writeObject
    [gatsby-repro]/[msgpackr]/dist/node.cjs:1647:6
  
  - node.cjs:1420 pack
    [gatsby-repro]/[msgpackr]/dist/node.cjs:1420:7
  
  - node.cjs:1186 Packr.pack.encode
    [gatsby-repro]/[msgpackr]/dist/node.cjs:1186:5
  
  - index.cjs:214 writeInstructions
    [gatsby-repro]/[lmdb]/dist/index.cjs:214:28
  
  - index.cjs:726 LMDBStore.put
    [gatsby-repro]/[lmdb]/dist/index.cjs:726:11
  
  - index.cjs:1084 LMDBStore.put
    [gatsby-repro]/[lmdb]/dist/index.cjs:1084:22
  
  - nodes.js:11 updateNodes
    [gatsby-repro]/[gatsby]/dist/datastore/lmdb/updates/nodes.js:11:24
  
  - lmdb-datastore.js:211 updateDataStore
    [gatsby-repro]/[gatsby]/dist/datastore/lmdb/lmdb-datastore.js:211:70
  
  - lmdb-datastore.js:254 
    [gatsby-repro]/[gatsby]/dist/datastore/lmdb/lmdb-datastore.js:254:7
  
  - mett.js:36 mettEmitEachStar
    [gatsby-repro]/[gatsby]/dist/utils/mett.js:36:11
  
  - Set.forEach
  
  - mett.js:35 Object.emit
    [gatsby-repro]/[gatsby]/dist/utils/mett.js:35:17
  
  - index.js:123 
    [gatsby-repro]/[gatsby]/dist/redux/index.js:123:11
  

not finished source and transform nodes - 0.055s

Environment

System:
    OS: macOS 15.2
    CPU: (12) arm64 Apple M2 Pro
    Shell: 5.9 - /bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 23.6.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
    npm: 10.9.2 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 132.0.6834.160
    Safari: 18.2
  npmPackages:
    gatsby: ^5.14.1 => 5.14.1

Config Flags

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