RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded at _deconstructPacket in CI Pipeline

Current behavior

Upgrading to cypress version 6.5.0 and running it on Bitbucket Pipeline CI via parallel tests, the error is encountered:

RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
    at _deconstructPacket (/root/.cache/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress/resources/app/packages/socket/node_modules/socket.io-parser/dist/binary.js:21:28)
    at _deconstructPacket (/root/.cache/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress/resources/app/packages/socket/node_modules/socket.io-parser/dist/binary.js:40:32)
...
at _deconstructPacket (/root/.cache/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress/resources/app/packages/socket/node_modules/socket.io-The Test Runner unexpectedly exited via a exit event with signal SIGILL

I’ve checked similar issues in the past and they have been fixed by succeeding Cypress versions. Could it be on the package.json and package-lock.json having the latest version Cypress v6.5.0 while my docker image is still pointing to cypress/base:14.15.4

Desired behavior

The Test runner should not exit in the CI pipeline and continue to generate test results.

Test code to reproduce

bitbucket-pipelines.yml

image: cypress/base:14.15.4
options:
  max-time: 20

tests: &tests
  name: Run tests
  caches:
    - node
    - cypress
  script:
    - set +e # continue executing next steps regardless of errors
    - cypress_version=$HOST npx cypress run --record --key $CYPRESS_DASHBOARD_KEY --parallel --ci-build-id $BITBUCKET_BUILD_NUMBER
  artifacts:
    - cypress/screenshots/**
    - cypress/videos/**
    - cypress/test-reports/mocha/*.json
    - cypress/test-reports/junit.xml

pipelines:
  default:
  - step:
      name: Prepare dependencies
      caches:
        - npm
        - cypress
        - node
      script:
        - npm ci
        - npx @bahmutov/print-env BITBUCKET # let's see the environment variables right away
  - parallel: # run N steps in parallel
    - step:
        <<: *tests
    - step:
        <<: *tests
    - step:
        <<: *tests
definitions:
  caches:
    npm: $HOME/.npm
    cypress: $HOME/.cache/Cypress

Versions

Cypress version 6.5.0 Running locally on MacOS works fine. Running on Bitbucket pipeline CI is when the issue is encountered.

[poponuts]

The issue still persists on 7.0.0

[jennifer-shehane]

This is a regression introduced in 6.5.0.

6.5.0 commits. I’ve narrowed it down to this PR where it was introduced: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/pull/14479 which is unfortunate because it is a gigantic commit, but hopefully this will help us track it down.

Issue not present: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/commit/0abb5efe90b7c573df9d509b6ebe5d4debd3dab2 Issue present: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/commit/af26fbebe6bc609132013a0493a116cc78bb1bd4