After upgrading GitHub Copilot CLI to `v1.0.46`, the CLI is no longer usable in my environment.
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Description
### Describe the bug
It starts, prints the normal startup banner, but then immediately reports:
✗ Failed to start MCP Servers: Error: Cannot find native binding. npm has a bug related to optional dependencies (https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4828). Please try `npm i` again after removing both package-lock.json and node_modules directory.
### Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.46.
### Steps to reproduce the behavior
Version
GitHub Copilot CLI: 1.0.46
Previous version that worked: older versions / JS entry path still works in my environment
Installed globally with npm
Environment
OS: Linux
Architecture: x64
Node: v24.14.0
npm: installed globally with Node 24
glibc on system is relatively old
### Expected behavior
✗ Failed to start MCP Servers: Error: Cannot find native binding. npm has a bug related to optional dependencies (https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4828). Please try `npm i` again after removing both package-lock.json and node_modules directory.
### Additional context
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