I encountered this issue while working on #346043. nodejs22 is also failing to build on staging-next #343421 with the same error. This may be a Rosetta 2 issue on macOS 15. It doesn’t happen with a native build on aarch64-darwin.

• https://hydra.nixos.org/build/274367706

not ok 3848 pummel/test-vm-memleak
  ---
  duration_ms: 3955.65700
  severity: fail
  exitcode: 1
  stack: |-
    node:internal/assert/utils:281
        throw err;
        ^
    
    AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: memory usage: 75493376 baseline: 41930752
        at Timeout._onTimeout (/private/tmp/nix-build-nodejs-22.9.0.drv-0/node-v22.9.0/test/pummel/test-vm-memleak.js:47:10)
        at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:594:17)
        at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:529:7) {
      generatedMessage: false,
      code: 'ERR_ASSERTION',
      actual: false,
      expected: true,
      operator: '=='
    }
    
    Node.js v22.9.0
  ...

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 24.11 Release Notes (or backporting 23.11 and 24.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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