Did you manage to install packages? I could start Julia with this workaround, but anything related to Pkg fails with a similar error:
pkg> update
ERROR: stat returned zero type for a valid path Stacktrace: [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
[2] stat(::String) at ./stat.jl:73
[3] isdir at ./stat.jl:311 [inlined]
[4] load_path_expand(::String) at ./initdefs.jl:241
[5] active_project(::Bool) at ./initdefs.jl:277
[6] active_project at ./initdefs.jl:265 [inlined]
[7] find_project_file(::Nothing) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Types.jl:231 [8] Pkg.Types.EnvCache(::Nothing) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Types.jl:336 (repeats 2 times)
[9] Pkg.Types.Context() at ./util.jl:722
[10] Context!(::Array{Pair{Symbol,Any},1}) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/Types.jl:412 [11] Context! at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/REPLMode.jl:316 [inlined]
[12] do_up!(::Dict{Symbol,Any}, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}, ::Dict{Symbol,Any}) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/REPLMode.jl:492
[13] #invokelatest#1(::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}, ::typeof(Base.invokelatest), ::Any, ::Any, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N) at ./essentials.jl:709
[14] invokelatest(::Any, ::Any, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N) at ./essentials.jl:708
[15] do_cmd!(::Pkg.REPLMode.Command, ::REPL.LineEditREPL) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/REPLMode.jl:412 [16] #do_cmd#23(::Bool, ::typeof(Pkg.REPLMode.do_cmd), ::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::String) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/REPLMode.jl:391 [17] do_cmd at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/REPLMode.jl:387 [inlined]
[18] (::Pkg.REPLMode.var"#28#31"{REPL.LineEditREPL,REPL.LineEdit.Prompt})(::REPL.LineEdit.MIState, ::Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}, ::Bool) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/Pkg/src/REPLMode.jl:619 [19] #invokelatest#1 at ./essentials.jl:709 [inlined]
[20] invokelatest at ./essentials.jl:708 [inlined]
[21] run_interface(::REPL.Terminals.TextTerminal, ::REPL.LineEdit.ModalInterface, ::REPL.LineEdit.MIState) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl:2306
[22] run_frontend(::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::REPL.REPLBackendRef) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/REPL/src/REPL.jl:1045
[23] run_repl(::REPL.AbstractREPL, ::Any) at /buildworker/worker/package_linuxaarch64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.3/REPL/src/REPL.jl:201 [24] (::Base.var"#770#772"{Bool,Bool,Bool,Bool})(::Module) at ./client.jl:382
[25] #invokelatest#1 at ./essentials.jl:709 [inlined]
[26] invokelatest at ./essentials.jl:708 [inlined]
[27] run_main_repl(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::Bool) at ./client.jl:366
[28] exec_options(::Base.JLOptions) at ./client.jl:304
[29] _start() at ./client.jl:460
Sorry for the poor formatting of the error message, I pasted it from my phone.