Action fails, because "Cannot find cached binary under /home/runner/.cache/CypressCache/8.2.0/Cypress/Cypress"

Error

We haven’t changed anything in our workflow settings, but we get suddenly:

We expected the binary to be installed here: /home/runner/.cache/CypressCache/8.2.0/Cypress/Cypress

History

On 1. December our CI Pipeline went through successfully.

On 2. December the Pipeline failed. But we haven’t changed anything in our .github/workflows folder. Only some application code changed.

Our e2e.yaml

name: Cypress Tests

on: [push]

env:
  HTTPS: 'true'
  # some more envs....

jobs:
  cypress:
    name: Cypress
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Cypress run
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
        with:
          build: npm run build
          start: npm start

      - name: Upload videos
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        if: failure()
        with:
          name: cypress-videos
          path: cypress/videos

Log / Last time successful (Dec. 1.)

Run cypress-io/github-action@v2
  with:
    build: npm run build
    start: npm start
    record: false
    config-file: cypress.json
  env:
    HTTPS: true
   ... 
/usr/local/bin/npm ci

> core-js@2.6.12 postinstall /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"


> ejs@2.7.4 postinstall /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/ejs
> node ./postinstall.js


> fsevents@1.2.13 install /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/fsevents
> node install.js


Skipping 'fsevents' build as platform linux is not supported

> fsevents@1.2.13 install /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/watchpack-chokidar2/node_modules/fsevents
> node install.js


Skipping 'fsevents' build as platform linux is not supported

> core-js@3.13.1 postinstall /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/core-js
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"


> core-js-pure@3.13.0 postinstall /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/core-js-pure
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"


> cypress@8.2.0 postinstall /home/runner/work/lock-book-auth-web/lock-book-auth-web/node_modules/cypress
> node index.js --exec install

Note: Overriding Cypress cache directory to: /home/runner/.cache/Cypress

      Previous installs of Cypress may not be found.

Installing Cypress (version: 8.2.0)

[STARTED] Task without title.
[SUCCESS] Task without title.
[STARTED] Task without title.
[SUCCESS] Task without title.
[STARTED] Task without title.
[SUCCESS] Task without title.

You can now open Cypress by running: node_modules/.bin/cypress open

https://on.cypress.io/installing-cypress

added 2125 packages in 38.899s
/usr/local/bin/npx cypress cache list
┌─────────┬──────────────┐
│ version │ last used    │
├─────────┼──────────────┤
│ 8.2.0   │ 4 months ago │
└─────────┴──────────────┘
/usr/local/bin/npx cypress verify

[STARTED] Task without title.
[SUCCESS] Task without title.

Log / Last first time failed (Dec. 2.)

Run cypress-io/github-action@v2
  with:
    build: npm run build
    start: npm start
    record: false
    config-file: cypress.json
  env:
    HTTPS: true
    ...
/usr/local/bin/npm ci

added 2102 packages, and audited 2103 packages in 42s

... 

To address issues that do not require attention, run:
  npm audit fix

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
  npm audit fix --force

Run `npm audit` for details.
/usr/local/bin/npx cypress cache list
No cached binary versions were found.
/usr/local/bin/npx cypress verify
The cypress npm package is installed, but the Cypress binary is missing.

We expected the binary to be installed here: /home/runner/.cache/Cypress/8.2.0/Cypress/Cypress

Reasons it may be missing:

- You're caching 'node_modules' but are not caching this path: /home/runner/.cache/Cypress
- You ran 'npm install' at an earlier build step but did not persist: /home/runner/.cache/Cypress

Properly caching the binary will fix this error and avoid downloading and unzipping Cypress.

Alternatively, you can run 'cypress install' to download the binary again.

https://on.cypress.io/not-installed-ci-error

----------

Platform: linux (Ubuntu - 20.04)
Cypress Version: 8.2.0
Error: The process '/usr/local/bin/npx' failed with exit code 1

[DlgSHi]

Try to use/restore from Cache as explained/showed here -> https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action/blob/b900bb785402701942376bc3a5e649074b532f88/.github/workflows/example-install-only.yml or https://github.com/cypress-io/github-action/blob/b900bb785402701942376bc3a5e649074b532f88/.github/workflows/example-quiet.yml

[NorbertNader]

I had to install cypress from node_modules. This is what my step looks like now:

      - name: Install and Build
        run: |
          yarn install
          yarn build
          ./packages/core/node_modules/cypress/bin/cypress install

We have a monorepo setup, hence /packages/core/.