#246 soju fails to run on ARMv6 30 days ago

Ticket created by ~utkarshverma on ~emersion/soju

I use the following command to build soju (master) for ARMv6.

$  GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=6 make GOFLAGS="-tags=moderncsqlite"

It builds fine and I can verify that the executable is valid since it runs with ./soju -help on my Pi Zero W (arm32v6). However, when I launch it with my database and config, it errors.

For ease of testing, I use qemu-static-arm, but the results mirror the hardware.

$ qemu-static-arm./soju -config soju.config
2025/03/27 06:51:04 warning: hostname "metia" is not a fully qualified domain name
2025/03/27 06:51:04 failed to open database: failed to query schema version: database disk image is malformed (11)

My soju.config is nothing special:

listen irc+insecure://
db sqlite3 main.db
message-store db

I investigated the code, and the driver (moderncsqlite) seemed to be having issues loading the DB when checking the DB version schema. Hence, I tried updating moderncsqlite and found that moderncsqlite >=v1.35.0 do not have this issue (currently we use 1.34.1).

The fix is simple:

$ go get modernc.org/sqlite@v1.35.0
$ go mod tidy

With this, soju now works perfectly for me on my Zero.

$ qemu-static-arm ./soju soju.config
2025/03/27 07:01:25 warning: hostname "metia" is not a fully qualified domain name
2025/03/27 07:01:25 server listening on "irc+insecure://"
2025/03/27 07:01:25 starting bouncer for user "barusu"
2025/03/27 07:01:26 user "barusu": upstream "libera": connecting to TLS server at address "irc.libera.chat:6697"
2025/03/27 07:01:26 user "barusu": upstream "oftc": connecting to TLS server at address "irc.oftc.net:6697"

Here's the diff just in case: https://pastebin.com/345cE7Z6