Cypress not running on networked WSL drive

Current behavior

Running Cypress on windows and trying to load a project via a networked WSL drive causes an EISDIR error on cypress.json and the directory itself.

Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, watch '//wsl.localhost/Ubuntu/home/[user]/[project]/cypress.json'
    at FSWatcher.<computed> (node:internal/fs/watchers:244:19)
    at Object.watch (node:fs:2237:34)
    at createFsWatchInstance (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:119:15)
    at setFsWatchListener (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:166:15)
    at NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:331:14)
    at NodeFsHandler._handleFile (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:395:23)
    at NodeFsHandler._addToNodeFs (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:629:21)
    at D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\index.js:445:21
    at Function.all (<anonymous>:null:null)
 {
  errno: -4068,
  syscall: 'watch',
  code: 'EISDIR',
  path: '//wsl.localhost/Ubuntu/home/[user]/[project]/cypress.json',
  filename: '//wsl.localhost/Ubuntu/home/[user]/[project]/cypress.json'
}

Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, watch '//wsl$/Ubuntu/home/[user]/[project]/cypress.json'
    at FSWatcher.<computed> (node:internal/fs/watchers:244:19)
    at Object.watch (node:fs:2237:34)
    at createFsWatchInstance (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:119:15)
    at setFsWatchListener (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:166:15)
    at NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:331:14)
    at NodeFsHandler._handleFile (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:395:23)
    at NodeFsHandler._addToNodeFs (D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\lib\nodefs-handler.js:629:21)
    at D:\Users\[user]\Cypress\resources\app\packages\server\node_modules\chokidar\index.js:445:21
    at Function.all (<anonymous>:null:null)
 {
  errno: -4068,
  syscall: 'watch',
  code: 'EISDIR',
  path: '//wsl$/Ubuntu/home/[user]/[project]/cypress.json',
  filename: '//wsl$/Ubuntu/home/[user]/[project]/cypress.json'
}

Using a mounted letter drive causes the same issue.

I do not have Xvfb as my company has not loaded it on the image so running Cypress in WSL is not an option as of now. Happy to use workarounds.

Windows 10 2H20 with Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2.

Desired behavior

Cypress should list the tests and work normally.

Test code to reproduce

Clone test repo into WSL, download Cypress on host Windows machine, extract, run exe from the command line and select the networked project folder.

Cypress Version

9.6.0

Other

Reproduced with Cypress 9.6.1 on Windows 11 Dev, using WSL2 Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

[MichaelPote]

This is still an issue, @jarrodpan it would be good if you could get that pull request going again?

[nagash77]

Unfortunately we have to close this issue due to inactivity. Please comment if there is new information to provide concerning the original issue and we can reopen.