npx hedera-local start does not work

[SimiHunjan]

Description

npx hedera-local start errors with the following:

SimiHunjan ~ %1npx hedera-local start
Starting the docker containers...
Starting the network...
Generating accounts...
node:internal/crypto/hash:67
  this[kHandle] = new _Hash(algorithm, xofLen);
                  ^

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:67:19)
    at createHash (node:crypto:130:10)
    at ripemd160 (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hethers/hdnode/node_modules/@ethersproject/sha2/lib/sha2.js:11:43)
    at new HDNode (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hethers/hdnode/lib/index.js:78:110)
    at Function.HDNode._fromSeed (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hethers/hdnode/lib/index.js:214:16)
    at Function.HDNode.fromMnemonic (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hethers/hdnode/lib/index.js:221:23)
    at Function.Wallet.fromMnemonic (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hethers/wallet/lib/index.js:314:43)
    at Function.Wallet.createRandom (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hethers/wallet/lib/index.js:278:23)
    at Function.generateAccounts (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hashgraph/hedera-local/src/hederaUtils.js:27:35)
    at start (/Users/simihunjan/node_modules/@hashgraph/hedera-local/cli.js:67:23) {
  opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'
}

Steps to reproduce

See above

Additional context

See above

Hedera network

other

Version

latest

Operating system

macOS

[Kalina-Todorova]

Hi @SimiHunjan could you share your Node and NPM versions?
Node version check: node -v
NPM version check: npm -v

[natanasow]

@SimiHunjan Currently, the supported versions of nodejs are < v17.0 due to a known bug in ethersjs core, which we have forked.