page.goto always times out in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Steps to reproduce

1. mkdir puppeteer_test
2. cd puppeteer_test
3. npm init -y
4. npm i puppeteer
5. touch index.js
6. put the following into index.js:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

main = () => {
    let browser;
    let page;
    return Promise.resolve()
        .then(() => {
            console.log('Launching browser');
            return puppeteer.launch({ args: ['--no-sandbox'] });
        })
        .then((result) => {
            browser = result;
        })
        .then(() => {
            return browser.newPage();
        })
        .then((result) => {
            page = result;
        })
        .then(() => {
            console.log('Navigating');
            return page.goto('https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer');
        })
        .then(() => {
            console.log('Taking screenshot');
            return page.screenshot({ path: 'test.png' });
        })
        .then(() => {
            if (browser) {
                console.log('Closing browser');
                return browser.close().then(() => {
                    console.log('Browser closed');
                });
            } else {
                return Promise.resolve();
            }
        })
        .catch((error) => {
            return Promise.reject(error);
        });
};

main()
    .then(() => {
        console.log('Completed successfully');
    })
    .catch((error) => {
        console.error(error);
    })
    .finally(() => {
        console.log('Done');
    });

1. node index.js

Environment

• Puppeteer version: ^5.2.1
• Platform / OS version: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
• Node.js version: v12.18.0

What is the expected result?

There should not be errors, and a screenshot should be taken.

What happens instead?

I get the following output:

Launching browser
Navigating
TimeoutError: Navigation timeout of 30000 ms exceeded
    at /c/Users/*******/home/puppeteer_test/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/LifecycleWatcher.js:106:111
Done

and then the program hangs. This happens no matter what URL I enter.

[nullromo]

Based on this comment I found that this worked for me:

return puppeteer.launch({
    args: [
        '--no-sandbox',
        '--no-zygote',
        '--single-process',
    ],
});

Further, I had to add the --disable-gpu flag to run in headless: false mode.

[pkerschbaum]

In case this helps someone, I had random timeouts using Puppeteer or Playwright on WSL 2.
It was actually a problem of WSL 2 itself, this workaround solved the issues: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7254#issuecomment-905767204