Any news on this? I am seeing the same crash (same gdb backtrace) with the nodejs 10.15.2~dfsg-2 and npm 5.8.0+ds6-4 provided by Debian 10 i386 (on a virtual machine) while using "npm install" on an internal package.
$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian Address sizes: 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 60 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz Stepping: 3 CPU MHz: 3599.996 BogoMIPS: 7199.99 Hypervisor vendor: VMware Virtualization type: full L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 8192K Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm cpuid_fault pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase smep arat flush_l1d arch_capabilities $ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.19.0-8-686-pae (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26)
