jq 1.8.2 Fatal glibc error: cannot get entropy for arc4random
Author: Baltazar500Created Jul 16, 2026Updated Aug 5, 2026
Describe the bug On old arm/arm64 (android), mipsel devices in version jq 1.8.2 the error "Fatal glibc error: cannot get entropy for arc4random; Aborted" is displayed instead of processing json
To Reproduce
echo "123"|jq -r .
Fatal glibc error: cannot get entropy for arc4random
AbortedExpected behavior json processing
Environment (please complete the following information):
Linux localhost 3.10.65 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 14 18:17:32 CST 2016 aarch64 GNU/Linux
Linux tangox 2.6.32.15-27-sigma #3 PREEMPT Fri Dec 19 09:26:17 UTC 2014 mips GNU/Linux
jq 1.8.2
Additional context There are no problems with version 1.8.1
Source: jqlang/jq