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Cypress hangs on Verifying Cypress can run

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior:

Installed Cypress through npm and running Cypress from command line for the first time, Cypress hangs on the Verifying Cypress can run step indefinitely:

> bloglist-frontend@0.1.0 cypress:open /mnt/c/users/asus/fullstackopen/part5/bloglist-frontend
> cypress open

It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 4.4.1

  ⠙  Verifying Cypress can run /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress

Below is the output when running debug: DEBUG=cypress:* npm run cypress:open

cypress:cli:cli cli starts with arguments ["/usr/local/bin/node","/mnt/c/users/asus/fullstackopen/part5/bloglist-frontend/node_modules/.bin/cypress","open"] +0ms
  cypress:cli NODE_OPTIONS is not set +0ms
  cypress:cli:cli program parsing arguments +6ms
  cypress:cli:cli opening Cypress +21ms
  cypress:cli parsed cli options {} +320ms
  cypress:cli opening from options {"project":"/mnt/c/users/asus/fullstackopen/part5/bloglist-frontend"} +0ms
  cypress:cli command line arguments ["--project","/mnt/c/users/asus/fullstackopen/part5/bloglist-frontend"] +0ms
  cypress:cli verifying Cypress app +0ms
  cypress:cli checking environment variables +2ms
  cypress:cli checking if executable exists /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress/Cypress +5ms
  cypress:cli Binary is executable? : true +5ms
  cypress:cli binaryDir is  /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress +0ms
  cypress:cli Reading binary package.json from: /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress/resources/app/package.json +0ms
  cypress:cli Found binary version 4.4.1 installed in: /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress +5ms
  cypress:cli could not read binary_state.json file at "/home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/binary_state.json" +24ms
  cypress:cli {} +1ms
  cypress:cli is Verified ? undefined +23ms
  cypress:cli running binary verification check 4.4.1 +1ms
It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 4.4.1

  cypress:cli clearing out the verified version +6ms
  cypress:cli undefined DISPLAY environment variable +0ms
  cypress:cli Cypress will spawn its own Xvfb +5ms
  cypress:cli needs Xvfb? true +24ms
  cypress:cli Starting Xvfb +6ms
  cypress:cli disabling Electron sandbox +52ms
  cypress:cli running smoke test +1ms
  cypress:cli using Cypress executable /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress/Cypress +1ms
  cypress:cli smoke test command: /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress/Cypress --no-sandbox --smoke-test --ping=79 +1ms
  cypress:cli smoke test timeout 100000 ms +1ms
  ⠦  Verifying Cypress can run /home/annateng/.cache/Cypress/4.4.1/Cypress

Desired Behavior

Open Cypress

Test code to reproduce

Installed Cypress using npm: npm install --save-dev cypress
Created custom script in package.json: "scripts": { "cypress:open": "cypress open" },
Run cypress on CLI: npm run cypress:open