Installation fails on WSL2

[ellistalley]

Operating system and version:

Windows 11 Home 24H2 build.26100.6584 WSL version: 2.5.10.0 Kernel version: 6.6.87.2-1 WSLg version: 1.0.66 MSRDC version: 1.2.6074 Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release Windows version: 10.0.26100.6584 OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64 Host: Windows Subsystem for Linux - Debian (2.5.10.0) Kernel: Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Shell: bash 5.2.37 WM: WSLg 1.0.66 (Wayland) Terminal: Windows Terminal CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U (16) @ 1.80 GHz GPU: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (495.56 MiB) [Integrated] Memory: 527.80 MiB / 7.43 GiB (7%) Swap: 0 B / 2.00 GiB (0%) Disk (/): 2.21 GiB / 1006.85 GiB (0%) - ext4 Disk (/mnt/c): 216.84 GiB / 459.57 GiB (47%) - 9p

nvm debug output:

N/A

nvm ls output:

N/A

How did you install nvm? curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash

What steps did you perform?

Copy pasted curl command

What happened?

Installation failed. Git cloning tried to allocate 20GB via malloc, failed.

=> Downloading nvm from git to '/home/ellis/.nvm'
=> Cloning into '/home/ellis/.nvm'...
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 21474836480 bytes)
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Failed to clone nvm repo. Please report this!

What did you expect to happen?

NVM installation success.

Is there anything in any of your profile files that modifies the PATH? No

If you are having installation issues, or getting "N/A", what does curl -I --compressed -v https://nodejs.org/dist/ print out?

* Host nodejs.org:443 was resolved. * IPv6: 2606:4700:10::ac42:8046, 2606:4700:10::6814:1fc * IPv4: 172.66.128.70, 104.20.1.252 * Trying [2606:4700:10::ac42:8046]:443... * Immediate connect fail for 2606:4700:10::ac42:8046: Network is unreachable * Trying [2606:4700:10::6814:1fc]:443... * Immediate connect fail for 2606:4700:10::6814:1fc: Network is unreachable * Trying 172.66.128.70:443... * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: /etc/ssl/certs * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / X25519MLKEM768 / RSASSA-PSS * ALPN: server accepted h2 * Server certificate: * subject: CN=*.nodejs.org * start date: Mar 12 00:00:00 2025 GMT * expire date: Apr 12 23:59:59 2026 GMT * subjectAltName: host "nodejs.org" matched cert's "nodejs.org" * issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA * SSL certificate verify ok. * Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * Connected to nodejs.org (172.66.128.70) port 443 * using HTTP/2 * [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://nodejs.org/dist/ * [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: HEAD] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: nodejs.org] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /dist/] * [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.14.1] * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*] * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept-encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd] > HEAD /dist/ HTTP/2 > Host: nodejs.org > User-Agent: curl/8.14.1 > Accept: */* > Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd > * Request completely sent off * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4): * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):

Connection #0 to host nodejs.org left intact