WSL | Electron 5.0 is producing gpu_data_manager_impl_private display compositor crashing

Current behavior:

WSL | Electron 5.0 is producing gpu_data_manager_impl_private display compositor crashing. Not able to do a cypress run or open due to this blocking issue. This was never a problem till I just upgraded to Cypress 3.5

Desired behavior:

Works okay and normal like how it did before the upgrade to 3.4

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

Setup: WSL (Ubuntu 18.04, Win10, Cypress 3.4)

1. Upgrade to Cypress 3.5
2. After upgrade run the same working command that worked for me before: DEBUG=cypress* ./node_modules/.bin/cypress openconfigFile=dev
3. I get the following error

I’m guessing this is related to Electron 5.0 upgrade that is part of 3.5 upgrade

Versions

Setup: WSL (Ubuntu 18.04, Win10, Cypress 3.4)

[flotwig]

Looks like some users have fixed it by passing a flag to Electron: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/3774#issuecomment-480210268

@adomyaty55foundry You can try patching your cypress to see if this fixes it. Open ./node_modules/cypress/lib/exec/spawn.js, and right above this line:

const child = cp.spawn(executable, electronArgs, stdioOptions)

Add this line:

electronArgs.push('--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor')

[adomyaty55foundry]

@flotwig I’m happy to say WSL2 works PERFECTLY with hardware accel. Go microsoft! I took the risk and updated my system to use WSL2 instead

This issue is solved by using WSL2 and by the way it is fast and amazingly less buggy.