DetoxRuntimeError: Aborted detox.init() execution, and now running detox.cleanup() with RN 0.63.3

Describe the bug

DetoxRuntimeError: Aborted detox.init() execution, and now running detox.cleanup() with RN 0.63.3

I get this Detox Init error when I run Android Tests. Things used to work when I was still with RN 0.62.2. The app launched successfully in the emulator and I am able to interact with it. It’s just that the tests itself does not run.

To Reproduce

• I have tested this issue on the latest Detox release and it still reproduces

I ran detox build --configuration android.emu.debug && detox test --configuration android.emu.debug --take-screenshots failing --loglevel verbose --debug-synchronization 10000 My package.json config

"detox": {
  "configurations": {
    "android.emu.debug": {
      "binaryPath": "android/app/build/outputs/apk/d/debug/app-d-debug.apk",
      "build": "cd android && ./gradlew assembleDDebug assembleDDebugAndroidTest -DtestBuildType=debug && cd ..",
      "type": "android.emulator",
      "name": "Nexus5X_API_29"
    },
    "android.emu.release": {
      "binaryPath": "android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk",
      "build": "cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease assembleAndroidTest -DtestBuildType=release && cd ..",
      "type": "android.emulator",
      "name": "Nexus5X_API_29"
    }
  }

My init.js

import detox from "detox";
import config from "../package.json";
import adapter from "detox/runners/jest/adapter";
import specReporter from "detox/runners/jest/specReporter";
import polyfill from "babel-polyfill";

// Set the default timeout
jest.setTimeout(120000);
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(adapter);

// This takes care of generating status logs on a per-spec basis. By default, jest only reports at file-level.
// This is strictly optional.
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(specReporter);

beforeAll(async () => {
  await detox.init(config.detox);
});

beforeEach(async () => {
  await adapter.beforeEach();
});

afterAll(async () => {
  await adapter.afterAll();
  await detox.cleanup();
});

Expected behavior Tests to start running

Screenshots

Device and Verbose Detox Logs

detox[73943] ERROR: [DetoxExportWrapper.js/DETOX_INIT_ERROR]
 DetoxRuntimeError: Aborted detox.init() execution, and now running detox.cleanup()

HINT: Most likely, your test runner is tearing down the suite due to the timeout error
    at Detox.[_assertNoPendingInit] (/Users/censoredusername/Documents/projects/censored-mobile-app/node_modules/detox/src/Detox.js:204:9)
    at Detox.beforeEach (/Users/censoredusername/Documents/projects/censored-mobile-app/node_modules/detox/src/Detox.js:111:37)
    at DetoxExportWrapper.<computed> (/Users/censoredusername/Documents/projects/censored-mobile-app/node_modules/detox/src/DetoxExportWrapper.js:87:32)
    at DetoxAdapterImpl.beforeEach (/Users/censoredusername/Documents/projects/censored-mobile-app/node_modules/detox/runners/jest/DetoxAdapterImpl.js:17:22)
    at DetoxAdapterJasmine.beforeEach (/Users/censoredusername/Documents/projects/censored-mobile-app/node_modules/detox/runners/jest/DetoxAdapterJasmine.js:19:5) {
  name: 'DetoxRuntimeError'
}

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Detox: 17.3.3 and also tried latest 17.10.2
• React Native: 0.63.3
• Node: 12.14.0
• Device: Android SDK 29
• OS: MacOS 10.14.6
• Test-runner: jest-jasmine2

[hxiongtw]

Seem to be running fine now, closing this.

[hamzahayat]

Detox is extremely unreliable and flaky. I’ve configured everything correctly as per the documentations, and I constantly run into this error (along with a couple others) when running my tests via CI.

Some real effort needs to go into stabilizing the testing platform.