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Does not open URL when launched from WSLv2

See original GitHub issue

Provide the steps to reproduce

Run LH on google.com

What is the current behavior?

Chrome opens to about:blank

What is the expected behavior?

Chrome opens to google.com

Environment Information

Affected Channels: Node
Lighthouse version: 6.0.0-beta.0
Chrome version: 84.0.4120.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit) (cohort: Clang-64)
Node.js version: v13.13.0
Operating System: Windows 10 2004 with WSLv2

Related issues

Lighthouse is installed inside of WSL, if I then run it from zsh/bash, it opens a blank Chrome video instead of the URL I passed

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

Stanzillacommented, Apr 20, 2020

Yup, pretty much.

This is as far as it gets.

1reaction

patrickhulcecommented, Apr 20, 2020

Hm, seems like there are intermittent WSL issues with localhost binding https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4636 maybe try some of the remediation techniques there?

Restarting LxssManager from windows services worked for me. I hope it keeps on working 🤞

Seemed to have some success for folks.

cc @wardpeet do you use WSL and do you remember encountering anything like this?

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