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[BUG] Electron not running in GitHub actions CI for ubuntu-latest (electron.launch: Process failed to launch!)

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Electron is failing to launch in GitHub action for ubuntu-latest.

Binaries:

Node: 14.17.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/node
npm: 6.14.13 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.17.0/bin/npm

npmPackages:

playwright: ^1.18.1 => 1.18.1

I passed DEBUG: pw:browser* and got:

2022-02-15T23:41:17.849Z pw:browser [pid=12798] <process did exit: exitCode=null, signal=SIGILL>

I tried running xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-args="-screen 0 1280x960x24" -- npm run test:e2e or just npm run test:e2e which maps to npx playwright test.

Everything working fine in macOS locally. I put headless: true in Playwright config. What is missing?

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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tanishqkancharlacommented, Nov 22, 2022

I was running into this same issue, and it seems the most likely issue is the electron process failing on startup immediately. If you’re piping your logs somewhere else (which is common for electron apps), you might not see the logs that lead to the failure.

For me specifically, the autoupdater was failing; it seems the autoupdater can’t work on unsigned Electron builds. So I had to disable the autoupdater on CI.

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dgozmancommented, Feb 16, 2022

Perhaps, similarly to #11932, you need xvfb-run because Electron is a GUI application and requires a display?

# replace "npx playwright test" with your test command
xvfb-run --auto-servernum --server-args="-screen 0 1280x960x24" -- npx playwright test

Without any logs with DEBUG=pw:browser*, we have no insights into what’s happening with that Electron process. If it were to output some error or stack trace, that would be something, but otherwise I am not sure how to help.