Chromium stopped working in Alpine Docker Gitlab

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 1.11.0
• Platform / OS version: Alpine Linux v3.8 within Docker (node:alpine) GitLab CI
• URLs (if applicable): -
• Node.js version: 11.6.0

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Please include code that reproduces the issue.

1. npm install puppeteer
2. npm test

What is the expected result?

the tests are running within headless chromium

What happens instead?

The following error occurs:

(95/95) Installing chromium@edge (71.0.3578.98-r2)
[...]

(node:104) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'id' of null
(node:104) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:104) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[...]

    Chromium revision is not downloaded. Run "npm install" or "yarn install"

      at Launcher.launch (node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:115:15)

Notes

After puppeteer refused to work with the bundled chromium (ENOENT error), as suggested in https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/379#issuecomment-437688436, thread linked from the main official troubleshooting documentation, I’ve decided to use the system-installed chromium with the following configuration snippet:

// gitlab-ci:yaml
image: node:alpine

variables:
  IS_CI: "true"

[...]

test:
    stage: test
    script:
        - echo @edge http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community >> /etc/apk/repositories && echo @edge http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main >> /etc/apk/repositories && apk add --no-cache chromium@edge nss@edge harfbuzz@edge
        - npm test
    dependencies:
        - prepare
    artifacts:
        paths:
        - coverage
    only:
        - branches
        - tags
    variables:
        CHROME_BIN: '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'

// package.json
{
  "devDependencies": {
    "jest": "^23.6.0",
    "jest-puppeteer": "3.7.0",
    "puppeteer": "^1.11.0"
  }
}

// jest-puppeteer.config.js
const defaultConfig = {
  launch: {
    args: ['--no-sandbox']
  }
};

if (process.env.IS_CI) {
  defaultConfig.launch.executablePath = '/usr/bin/chromium-browser';
  defaultConfig.launch.args = ['--disable-dev-shm-usage'];
}

module.exports = defaultConfig;

[brandonros]

"Error: Failed to launch chrome!
ewFailed to move to new namespace: PID namespaces supported, Network namespace supported, but failed: errno = Operation not permitted
[0316/234355.845954:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(187)] Check failed: ReceiveFixedMessage(fds[0], kZygoteBootMessage, sizeof(kZygoteBootMessage), &boot_pid). 
Received signal 6
  r8: 0000000000000078  r9: 00007f480e59114c r10: 0000000000000008 r11: 0000000000000246
 r12: 00007ffd620a26d0 r13: 00000000000000a0 r14: 00007ffd620a26f0 r15: 00007ffd620a2c40
  di: 0000000000000002  si: 00007ffd620a25a0  bp: 00007ffd620a25a0  bx: 0000000000000006
  dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 00007f480e547fa0  sp: 00007ffd620a2588
  ip: 00007f480e547fa0 efl: 0000000000000246 cgf: 002b000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
 trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
[end of stack trace]
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.


TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md

    at onClose (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:342:14)
    at Interface.helper.addEventListener (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:331:50)
    at Interface.emit (events.js:194:15)
    at Interface.close (readline.js:379:8)
    at Socket.onend (readline.js:157:10)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:194:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1125:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

# Avoid sandbox for Puppeteer
RUN mkdir -p /home/nobody/Downloads \
  && chown -R nobody:nobody /home/nobody \
  && chown -R nobody:nobody /app

# Switch user
USER nobody

These are the relevant parts of my Dockerfile. Not quite sure how to get around this error?

[walirt]

"Error: Failed to launch chrome!
ewFailed to move to new namespace: PID namespaces supported, Network namespace supported, but failed: errno = Operation not permitted
[0316/234355.845954:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(187)] Check failed: ReceiveFixedMessage(fds[0], kZygoteBootMessage, sizeof(kZygoteBootMessage), &boot_pid). 
Received signal 6
  r8: 0000000000000078  r9: 00007f480e59114c r10: 0000000000000008 r11: 0000000000000246
 r12: 00007ffd620a26d0 r13: 00000000000000a0 r14: 00007ffd620a26f0 r15: 00007ffd620a2c40
  di: 0000000000000002  si: 00007ffd620a25a0  bp: 00007ffd620a25a0  bx: 0000000000000006
  dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 00007f480e547fa0  sp: 00007ffd620a2588
  ip: 00007f480e547fa0 efl: 0000000000000246 cgf: 002b000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
 trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
[end of stack trace]
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.


TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md

    at onClose (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:342:14)
    at Interface.helper.addEventListener (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:331:50)
    at Interface.emit (events.js:194:15)
    at Interface.close (readline.js:379:8)
    at Socket.onend (readline.js:157:10)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:194:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1125:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

# Avoid sandbox for Puppeteer
RUN mkdir -p /home/nobody/Downloads \
  && chown -R nobody:nobody /home/nobody \
  && chown -R nobody:nobody /app

# Switch user
USER nobody

These are the relevant parts of my Dockerfile. Not quite sure how to get around this error?

I add --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN in docker run can solve this problem