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Error: Failed to launch chrome!

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment: I’m running Puppeteer in Heroku Hobby hosting. Using

  • Puppeteer version: 6.4.1
  • Platform / OS version: whatever heroku uses
  • Node.js version: 10.16.3

What steps will reproduce the problem? It just crashes whenever I try to access a route that uses it to crawl a URL. It doesn’t happens every time. Only after a few successful requests it starts failing and I have to restart heroku.

Here’s my whole code for that route:

var express = require('express');
var puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
var cors = require('cors')

var router = express.Router();

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', cors(), function(req, res, next) 
    var scrapePage = async (req, Admin) => {
        const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
            args: [
                '--no-sandbox',
                '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
            ]
        });
        const page = await browser.newPage();
        await page.goto(req.query.url);
    
        //loading a .js file to use it those functions on page load
        await page.addScriptTag({path: "./models/admin.js"});

        const scrapedData = await page.evaluate(function(){

            //query stuff from window and document variables
         
            return {
                whatever: here
            };
        });
    
        await browser.close();
        return scrapedData;    
    };
    
    const test = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        scrapePage(req, Admin)
        .then(data => {
            res.json(data);
        })
        .catch(function(err){
            console.log(err);
            res.send(err);
        });
    });
});
module.exports = router;

What happens instead?

I get this error in the logs:

Error: Failed to launch chrome!
Error: Failed to launch chrome!
Error: Failed to launch chrome!
[1203/190259.931677:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.931677:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.931677:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.931960:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.931960:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.931960:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.932341:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.932341:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.932341:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.933572:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.933572:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.933572:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.945855:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.945855:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.945855:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(129)] pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
[1203/190259.945888:FATAL:backend_impl.cc(120)] Check failed: StartWithOptions(base::Thread::Options(base::MessagePumpType::IO, 0)).
[1203/190259.945888:FATAL:backend_impl.cc(120)] Check failed: StartWithOptions(base::Thread::Options(base::MessagePumpType::IO, 0)).
[1203/190259.945888:FATAL:backend_impl.cc(120)] Check failed: StartWithOptions(base::Thread::Options(base::MessagePumpType::IO, 0)).
#0 0x55f4501f0e29 base::debug::CollectStackTrace()
#0 0x55f4501f0e29 base::debug::CollectStackTrace()
#0 0x55f4501f0e29 base::debug::CollectStackTrace()
#1 0x55f450154ee3 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x55f450154ee3 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x55f450154ee3 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#2 0x55f4501696b3 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#2 0x55f4501696b3 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#2 0x55f4501696b3 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#3 0x55f4505522ab base::LazyInstance<>::Get()
#3 0x55f4505522ab base::LazyInstance<>::Get()
#3 0x55f4505522ab base::LazyInstance<>::Get()
#4 0x55f45054ae50 disk_cache::BackendImpl::BackendImpl()
#4 0x55f45054ae50 disk_cache::BackendImpl::BackendImpl()
#4 0x55f45054ae50 disk_cache::BackendImpl::BackendImpl()
#5 0x55f45054a833 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::Run()
#5 0x55f45054a833 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::Run()
#5 0x55f45054a833 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::Run()
#6 0x55f45054a9e1 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::TryCreateCleanupTrackerAndRun()
#6 0x55f45054a9e1 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::TryCreateCleanupTrackerAndRun()
#6 0x55f45054a9e1 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::TryCreateCleanupTrackerAndRun()
#7 0x55f45054a65a disk_cache::CreateCacheBackendImpl()
#7 0x55f45054a65a disk_cache::CreateCacheBackendImpl()
#7 0x55f45054a65a disk_cache::CreateCacheBackendImpl()
#8 0x55f45054aa42 disk_cache::CreateCacheBackend()
#8 0x55f45054aa42 disk_cache::CreateCacheBackend()
#8 0x55f45054aa42 disk_cache::CreateCacheBackend()
#9 0x55f44e358979 gpu::ShaderDiskCache::Init()
#9 0x55f44e358979 gpu::ShaderDiskCache::Init()
#9 0x55f44e358979 gpu::ShaderDiskCache::Init()
#10 0x55f44e3588b9 gpu::ShaderCacheFactory::Get()
#10 0x55f44e3588b9 gpu::ShaderCacheFactory::Get()
#10 0x55f44e3588b9 gpu::ShaderCacheFactory::Get()
#11 0x55f451544104 viz::GpuHostImpl::EstablishGpuChannel()
#11 0x55f451544104 viz::GpuHostImpl::EstablishGpuChannel()
#11 0x55f451544104 viz::GpuHostImpl::EstablishGpuChannel()
#12 0x55f451542488 viz::GpuClient::EstablishGpuChannel()
#12 0x55f451542488 viz::GpuClient::EstablishGpuChannel()
#12 0x55f451542488 viz::GpuClient::EstablishGpuChannel()
#13 0x55f44e18328b base::internal::Invoker<>::RunOnce()
#13 0x55f44e18328b base::internal::Invoker<>::RunOnce()
#13 0x55f44e18328b base::internal::Invoker<>::RunOnce()
#14 0x55f45019fd6f base::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#14 0x55f45019fd6f base::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#14 0x55f45019fd6f base::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#15 0x55f4501affba base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl()
#15 0x55f4501affba base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl()
#15 0x55f4501affba base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl()
#16 0x55f4501afd98 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoSomeWork()
#16 0x55f4501afd98 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoSomeWork()
#16 0x55f4501afd98 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoSomeWork()
#17 0x55f4502075f9 base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run()
#17 0x55f4502075f9 base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run()
#17 0x55f4502075f9 base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run()
#18 0x55f4501b07d9 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run()
#18 0x55f4501b07d9 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run()
#18 0x55f4501b07d9 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run()
#19 0x55f450189687 base::RunLoop::Run()
#19 0x55f450189687 base::RunLoop::Run()
#19 0x55f450189687 base::RunLoop::Run()
#20 0x55f44e644884 content::BrowserProcessSubThread::IOThreadRun()
#20 0x55f44e644884 content::BrowserProcessSubThread::IOThreadRun()
#20 0x55f44e644884 content::BrowserProcessSubThread::IOThreadRun()
#21 0x55f4501c3dbf base::Thread::ThreadMain()
#21 0x55f4501c3dbf base::Thread::ThreadMain()
#21 0x55f4501c3dbf base::Thread::ThreadMain()
#22 0x55f45020119e base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc()
#22 0x55f45020119e base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc()
#22 0x55f45020119e base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc()
#23 0x7fd6c68356db start_thread
#23 0x7fd6c68356db start_thread
#23 0x7fd6c68356db start_thread
#24 0x7fd6c08cf88f clone
#24 0x7fd6c08cf88f clone
#24 0x7fd6c08cf88f clone
Task trace:
Task trace:
Task trace:
#0 0x55f45154207b viz::GpuClient::PreEstablishGpuChannel()
#0 0x55f45154207b viz::GpuClient::PreEstablishGpuChannel()
#0 0x55f45154207b viz::GpuClient::PreEstablishGpuChannel()
#1 0x55f44fdd7286 headless::HeadlessShell::OnStart()
#1 0x55f44fdd7286 headless::HeadlessShell::OnStart()
#1 0x55f44fdd7286 headless::HeadlessShell::OnStart()
#2 0x55f44fdd7286 headless::HeadlessShell::OnStart()
#2 0x55f44fdd7286 headless::HeadlessShell::OnStart()
#2 0x55f44fdd7286 headless::HeadlessShell::OnStart()



Received signal 6
Received signal 6
Received signal 6
#0 0x55f4501f0e29 base::debug::CollectStackTrace()
#0 0x55f4501f0e29 base::debug::CollectStackTrace()
#0 0x55f4501f0e29 base::debug::CollectStackTrace()
#1 0x55f450154ee3 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x55f450154ee3 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x55f450154ee3 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#2 0x55f4501f09b1 base::debug::(anonymous namespace)::StackDumpSignalHandler()
#2 0x55f4501f09b1 base::debug::(anonymous namespace)::StackDumpSignalHandler()
#2 0x55f4501f09b1 base::debug::(anonymous namespace)::StackDumpSignalHandler()
#3 0x7fd6c6840890 <unknown>
#3 0x7fd6c6840890 <unknown>
#3 0x7fd6c6840890 <unknown>
#4 0x7fd6c07ece97 gsignal
#4 0x7fd6c07ece97 gsignal
#4 0x7fd6c07ece97 gsignal
#5 0x7fd6c07ee801 abort
#5 0x7fd6c07ee801 abort
#5 0x7fd6c07ee801 abort
#6 0x55f4501ef815 base::debug::BreakDebugger()
#6 0x55f4501ef815 base::debug::BreakDebugger()
#6 0x55f4501ef815 base::debug::BreakDebugger()
#7 0x55f450169af9 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#7 0x55f450169af9 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#7 0x55f450169af9 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#8 0x55f4505522ab base::LazyInstance<>::Get()
#8 0x55f4505522ab base::LazyInstance<>::Get()
#8 0x55f4505522ab base::LazyInstance<>::Get()
#9 0x55f45054ae50 disk_cache::BackendImpl::BackendImpl()
#9 0x55f45054ae50 disk_cache::BackendImpl::BackendImpl()
#9 0x55f45054ae50 disk_cache::BackendImpl::BackendImpl()
#10 0x55f45054a833 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::Run()
#10 0x55f45054a833 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::Run()
#10 0x55f45054a833 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::Run()
#11 0x55f45054a9e1 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::TryCreateCleanupTrackerAndRun()
#11 0x55f45054a9e1 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::TryCreateCleanupTrackerAndRun()
#11 0x55f45054a9e1 (anonymous namespace)::CacheCreator::TryCreateCleanupTrackerAndRun()
#12 0x55f45054a65a disk_cache::CreateCacheBackendImpl()
#12 0x55f45054a65a disk_cache::CreateCacheBackendImpl()
#12 0x55f45054a65a disk_cache::CreateCacheBackendImpl()
#13 0x55f45054aa42 disk_cache::CreateCacheBackend()
#13 0x55f45054aa42 disk_cache::CreateCacheBackend()
#13 0x55f45054aa42 disk_cache::CreateCacheBackend()
#14 0x55f44e358979 gpu::ShaderDiskCache::Init()
#14 0x55f44e358979 gpu::ShaderDiskCache::Init()
#14 0x55f44e358979 gpu::ShaderDiskCache::Init()
#15 0x55f44e3588b9 gpu::ShaderCacheFactory::Get()
#15 0x55f44e3588b9 gpu::ShaderCacheFactory::Get()
#15 0x55f44e3588b9 gpu::ShaderCacheFactory::Get()
#16 0x55f451544104 viz::GpuHostImpl::EstablishGpuChannel()
#16 0x55f451544104 viz::GpuHostImpl::EstablishGpuChannel()
#16 0x55f451544104 viz::GpuHostImpl::EstablishGpuChannel()
#17 0x55f451542488 viz::GpuClient::EstablishGpuChannel()
#17 0x55f451542488 viz::GpuClient::EstablishGpuChannel()
#17 0x55f451542488 viz::GpuClient::EstablishGpuChannel()
#18 0x55f44e18328b base::internal::Invoker<>::RunOnce()
#18 0x55f44e18328b base::internal::Invoker<>::RunOnce()
#18 0x55f44e18328b base::internal::Invoker<>::RunOnce()
#19 0x55f45019fd6f base::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#19 0x55f45019fd6f base::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#19 0x55f45019fd6f base::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#20 0x55f4501affba base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl()
#20 0x55f4501affba base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl()
#20 0x55f4501affba base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoWorkImpl()
#21 0x55f4501afd98 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoSomeWork()
#21 0x55f4501afd98 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoSomeWork()
#21 0x55f4501afd98 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::DoSomeWork()
#22 0x55f4502075f9 base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run()
#22 0x55f4502075f9 base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run()
#22 0x55f4502075f9 base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run()
#23 0x55f4501b07d9 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run()
#23 0x55f4501b07d9 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run()
#23 0x55f4501b07d9 base::sequence_manager::internal::ThreadControllerWithMessagePumpImpl::Run()
#24 0x55f450189687 base::RunLoop::Run()
#24 0x55f450189687 base::RunLoop::Run()
#24 0x55f450189687 base::RunLoop::Run()
#25 0x55f44e644884 content::BrowserProcessSubThread::IOThreadRun()
#25 0x55f44e644884 content::BrowserProcessSubThread::IOThreadRun()
#25 0x55f44e644884 content::BrowserProcessSubThread::IOThreadRun()
#26 0x55f4501c3dbf base::Thread::ThreadMain()
#26 0x55f4501c3dbf base::Thread::ThreadMain()
#26 0x55f4501c3dbf base::Thread::ThreadMain()
#27 0x55f45020119e base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc()
#27 0x55f45020119e base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc()
#27 0x55f45020119e base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc()
#28 0x7fd6c68356db start_thread
#28 0x7fd6c68356db start_thread
#28 0x7fd6c68356db start_thread
#29 0x7fd6c08cf88f clone
#29 0x7fd6c08cf88f clone
#29 0x7fd6c08cf88f clone
r8: 0000000000000000  r9: 00007fd6b4721910 r10: 0000000000000008 r11: 0000000000000246
r8: 0000000000000000  r9: 00007fd6b4721910 r10: 0000000000000008 r11: 0000000000000246
r8: 0000000000000000  r9: 00007fd6b4721910 r10: 0000000000000008 r11: 0000000000000246
r12: 00007fd6b4722bd0 r13: 00007fd6b4721bb8 r14: 00007fd6b4722bd8 r15: 00007fd6b4721bd0
r12: 00007fd6b4722bd0 r13: 00007fd6b4721bb8 r14: 00007fd6b4722bd8 r15: 00007fd6b4721bd0
r12: 00007fd6b4722bd0 r13: 00007fd6b4721bb8 r14: 00007fd6b4722bd8 r15: 00007fd6b4721bd0
di: 0000000000000002  si: 00007fd6b4721910  bp: 00007fd6b4721b60  bx: 00007fd6b4721bb8
di: 0000000000000002  si: 00007fd6b4721910  bp: 00007fd6b4721b60  bx: 00007fd6b4721bb8
di: 0000000000000002  si: 00007fd6b4721910  bp: 00007fd6b4721b60  bx: 00007fd6b4721bb8
dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 00007fd6c07ece97  sp: 00007fd6b4721910
dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 00007fd6c07ece97  sp: 00007fd6b4721910
dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 00007fd6c07ece97  sp: 00007fd6b4721910
ip: 00007fd6c07ece97 efl: 0000000000000246 cgf: 7472000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
ip: 00007fd6c07ece97 efl: 0000000000000246 cgf: 7472000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
ip: 00007fd6c07ece97 efl: 0000000000000246 cgf: 7472000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
[end of stack trace]
[end of stack trace]
[end of stack trace]
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.






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



at onClose (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:348:14)
at onClose (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:348:14)
at onClose (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:348:14)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:338:60)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:338:60)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:338:60)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:215:7)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:215:7)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:215:7)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
GET /admin?url=http://alvarotrigo.com/fullPage/extensions/test.html 304 678.130 ms - -
GET /admin?url=http://alvarotrigo.com/fullPage/extensions/test.html 304 678.130 ms - -
GET /admin?url=http://alvarotrigo.com/fullPage/extensions/test.html 304 678.130 ms - -

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  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions:7
  • Comments:5

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qiao-twcommented, Jul 8, 2022

I just met this problem as well.

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OrKoNcommented, Sep 6, 2022

Does it still repro using the latest version? does it happen outside of the Heroku environment? Please re-open the issue with the latest repro. The original failure looks like some dependencies (mentioned in troubleshooting.md) might be missing on Heroku or it was a bug in that version of Chromium.

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