[Bug]: copy_directory immediately fails with "Killed" 137

[guw]

What happened?

We are seeing the following error in our build:

ERROR: .../BUILD.bazel:11:22: Copying directory npm__yallist__3.1.1/package [for tool] failed: (Killed): copy_directory failed: error executing CopyDirectory command (from target //:.aspect_rules_js/node_modules/[email protected]/pkg)

Digging a bit it seems that copy_directory is not working properly.

$ pwd
/.../execroot/.../external/copy_directory_linux_amd64

$ ls -la
total 1620
drwxr-xr-x    2 user user    4096 Jun 18 05:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 1756 user user  262144 Jun 18 05:04 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 user user     328 Jun 18 05:03 BUILD.bazel
-rw-r--r--    1 user user       0 Jun 18 05:03 REPO.bazel
-rw-r--r--    1 user user       0 Jun 18 05:03 WORKSPACE
-r-xr-xr-x    1 user user 1388544 Jun 17 10:29 copy_directory

$ ./copy_directory
Killed

$ echo $?
137

The machine has 96GB RAM (no swap) and >74GB free memory. It should not OOM immediately. Something else is bogus.

Version

Development (host) and target OS/architectures: RHEL 9, Intel

Output of bazel --version: 7.1.1

Version of the Aspect rules, or other relevant rules from your WORKSPACE or MODULE.bazel file:

• rules_js-v1.35.0.tar.gz
• rules_jest-v0.20.0.tar.gz
• rules_rollup-v1.0.0.tar.gz

Language(s) and/or frameworks involved:

• NPM

How to reproduce

Don't know yet.

Any other information?

It might be related to some OS/library update. Wondering if there is a way to get more debug information for the binary?