bug: Seems to hang for ever on my build agent

Context:

Trying to run this on my azure devops build agent ( Ubuntu-20.04)

I install using sudo npm install md-to-pdf -g -unsafe-perm=true

then run simply md-to-pdf Release1.0.0.md

When i do this on my local machine a pdf is generated in less than a second

On my build agent it hangs indefinitely

Strangely if i kill the task i see this in the logs

[17:18:10] generating PDF from Release1.0.0.md [started]
[17:18:12] generating PDF from Release1.0.0.md [completed]

so it seems it is running in about 2 seconds, but not existing properly so the script task doesnt exit

UPDATE - I managed to work around it by using the following syntax cat file.md | md-to-pdf > path/to/output.pdf but leaving this open in case the above issue is of interest to you

Thanks

[panvicka]

A small update from me. I have got it working, even the function mdToPdf works on my self-hosted Drone CI/CD with Docker Runner, both running in a Docker.

1. part of the yml file that installs puppeteer that works on my server

pipeline:
   build:
      image: node
      commands:
        - npm install
        - npm install puppeteer --only=dev
        - apt-get update
        - apt-get install -y -qq gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget > /dev/null
        - node node_modules/puppeteer/install.js

1. I am running node.js script using the function mdToPdf like this

 pdf = await mdToPdf({ path: pathToMd }, confObj).catch(console.error);

with launch_options: { args: ["--no-sandbox"] in confObj

1. If you have tried several times failing, restart CI/DC server and Docker service as well (!). At one point my pipeline started working after a hard restart.

[simonhaenisch]

Thanks for the update 🙌 I think there’s enough info here for now, so I’ll go ahead and close this as there’s nothing actionable about it for me. But feel free to add more comments about possible solutions or causes of this issue.