playwright: [BUG] `npx playwright install` does not finish install and exits with 0

Edit from maintainers

You are affected when npx playwright install does not produce a

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line for each browser install and stops already before.

We recently see this in our CI (using playwright@1.24.2):

$ node test/unit/browser/index.js --sequential --build --browser chromium --browser webkit --tfs 'Browser Unit Tests'
browserType.launch: Executable doesn't exist at /Users/runner/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/chromium-1015/chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium
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║ Looks like Playwright Test or Playwright was just installed or updated. ║
║ Please run the following command to download new browsers:              ║
║                                                                         ║
║     npx playwright install                                              ║
║                                                                         ║
║ <3 Playwright Team                                                      ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
    at runTestsInBrowser (/Users/runner/work/1/s/test/unit/browser/index.js:129:48)
    at /Users/runner/work/1/s/test/unit/browser/index.js:254:25 {
  name: 'Error'
}
error Command failed with exit code 1.

Is this known?

https://dev.azure.com/monacotools/Monaco/_build/results?buildId=185457&view=logs&j=a5d99aad-4929-5289-bf4a-26b78032353d&t=dafdf52c-6fc3-5431-f55d-37c3624b5ac3&l=13

//cc @pavelfeldman

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 27 (23 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

devops: use debug Node.js build on CI for browser downloads (#17504) https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/17394 — committed to microsoft/playwright by mxschmitt 2 years ago
chore: download browsers out of process (#17743) https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/17394 — committed to microsoft/playwright by mxschmitt 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

There is still a problem. you helped me****

Serhatbird on Oct 21, 2022

We implemented like a workaround for this, it goes live in 1.27.

Please let us know if you still encounter it afterwards.

mxschmitt on Oct 4, 2022

@mxschmitt Sure. Sorry if I hijacked the thread. To be clear we were seeing the downloads being stuck at 0 and then it would still report the build as a “success”. Then the tests would fail because there was no browser installed.

Here is a snippet from the machine. it was reproing consistently in CI. Let me know if you need more logs from before and after this moment.

Downloading Chromium 104.0.5112.20 (playwright build v1012)...
|                                                                                |   0% of 132.8 Mb

EDIT: Later on in the pipeline we would see the following in the tests.

 browserType.launch: Executable doesn't exist at /ms-playwright/chromium-1012/chrome-linux/chrome
    ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
    ║ Looks like Playwright Test or Playwright was just installed or updated. ║
    ║ Please run the following command to download new browsers:              ║
    ║                                                                         ║
    ║     npx playwright install                                              ║
    ║                                                                         ║
    ║ <3 Playwright Team                                                      ║
    ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

nmann4 on Sep 21, 2022