cypress: cypress crash during long test run with error thrown by plugin / IPC channel closed

Current behavior:

After updating to 3.0.1 (from 3.0.0), after running a fairly large test run of 50 specs (compiled with the ts plugin), I’ve started to encounter these errors about 2/3 of the way through the suite. Every test afterwards fails immediately with the below stack trace:

Error: The following error was thrown by a plugin. We've stopped running your tests because a plugin crashed.

Error [ERR_IPC_CHANNEL_CLOSED]: channel closed
    at ChildProcess.target.send (internal/child_process.js:584:16)
    at Object.send (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:34:27)
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:74:28
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:77:16
    at Promise.cancellationExecute [as _execute] (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:321:9)
    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:481:18)
    at new Promise (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:77:14)
    at Object.wrapParentPromise (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:61:14)
    at Object.before:browser:launch (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:67:27)
    at Object.execute (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:109:38)
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js:137:28
    at tryCatcher (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Function.Promise.attempt.Promise.try (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/method.js:39:29)
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js:133:32
    at tryCatcher (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:510:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:567:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:612:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:691:18)
    at Async._drainQueue (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:133:16)
    at Async._drainQueues (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:143:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:781:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:743:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:714:5)

    at Object.get (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/errors.js:129:13)
    at Object.wrapper [as get] (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:4968:19)
    at ChildProcess.handleError (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:92:24)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at ChildProcess.target.send (internal/child_process.js:588:12)
    at Object.send (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:34:27)
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:74:28
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:77:16
    at Promise.cancellationExecute [as _execute] (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:321:9)
    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:481:18)
    at new Promise (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:77:14)
    at Object.wrapParentPromise (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:61:14)
    at Object.before:browser:launch (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:67:27)
    at Object.execute (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:109:38)
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js:137:28
    at tryCatcher (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Function.Promise.attempt.Promise.try (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/method.js:39:29)
    at /root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/electron.js:133:32
    at tryCatcher (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:510:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:567:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:612:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:691:18)
    at Async._drainQueue (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:133:16)
    at Async._drainQueues (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:143:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/root/.cache/Cypress/3.0.1/Cypress/resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:781:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:743:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:714:5)

Desired behavior:

Steps to reproduce:

I’m not sure if it’s specific to my suite – I’ve tried on a repo of simple tests (in the 50 or some odd range), but I think it has more to do with the size or complexity of the tests. I’ll have to do some work to get an example of the crash.

Versions

Cypress 3.0.1 CircleCI 2.0 Config cypress/browsers:chrome65-ff57 using the cypress run --browser chrome option