playwright: [BUG] Webkit problem with libwebp-1.1.0-1, error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6

Context:

Playwright Version: ^1.1.1
Operating System: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.7.2-arch1-1
Node version: v14.4.0
Browser: WebKit
Extra: libwebp-1.1.0-1

Code Snippet

const playwright = require('playwright')

;(async () => {
  for (const browserType of ['webkit']) {
    const browser = await playwright[browserType].launch()
    const context = await browser.newContext()
    const page = await context.newPage()
    await page.goto('http://whatsmyuseragent.org/')
    await page.screenshot({ path: `example-${browserType}.png` })
    await browser.close()
  }
})()

Describe the bug error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6

 pw:api => webkit.launch started +0ms
  pw:api <= webkit.launch failed +23ms
(node:329099) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Protocol error (Playwright.enable): Browser has been closed.
==================== webkit.launch logs ====================
<launching> /home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
<launched> pid=329110
/home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/minibrowser-wpe/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
<process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>
============================================================
Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs.Error
    at /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:104:63
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at WKSession.send (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:103:16)
    at Function.connect (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkBrowser.js:50:37)
    at WebKit._connectToTransport (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit.js:33:38)
    at WebKit._innerLaunch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:86:36)
    at async ProgressController.run (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/progress.js:76:28)
    at async WebKit.launch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:61:25)
    at async /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/src/index.js:5:21
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:329099) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
(node:329099) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

which I fixed by creating the symbolic link manually. sudo ln /usr/lib/libwebp.so.7 /usr/lib/libwebp.so.6

Then again running into

 pw:api => webkit.launch started +0ms
  pw:api <= webkit.launch failed +24ms
(node:330939) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Protocol error (Playwright.enable): Browser has been closed.
==================== webkit.launch logs ====================
<launching> /home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
<launched> pid=330950
/home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/minibrowser-wpe/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
<process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>
============================================================
Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs.Error
    at /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:104:63
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at WKSession.send (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:103:16)
    at Function.connect (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkBrowser.js:50:37)
    at WebKit._connectToTransport (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit.js:33:38)
    at WebKit._innerLaunch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:86:36)
    at async ProgressController.run (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/progress.js:76:28)
    at async WebKit.launch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:61:25)
    at async /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/src/index.js:5:21
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:330939) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
(node:330939) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Which I solved by creating the symbolic link manually again. sudo ln /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3

Is it because of the latest libwebp-1.1.0-1 ?

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 5
Comments: 24 (2 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

chore(playwright): run web server Run webkit browsers SEE https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/2621#issuecomment-931530175 — committed to leosuncin/redux-offline-example by leosuncin 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Missing libraries are:
libicui18n.so.66
libicuuc.so.66
libwebp.so.6
libenchant.so.1

Manjaro: I solved it by installing the following libs: aur/enchant1.6 aur/icu66 aur/libwebp052

+61

dmitriiweb on Sep 30, 2021

I’m running Manjaro and I’m encountering the same issue:

Error: Host system is missing dependencies!

  Missing libraries are:
      libwebp.so.6
      libenchant.so.1
      libicui18n.so.66
      libicuuc.so.66

Is Arch support on the roadmap? Has anyone found a workaround?

+11

DahliaWitt on Mar 5, 2021

Arch support would be nice!

I had missing .so errors, which I solved with

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libicui18n.so.67 libicui18n.so.66
sudo ln -s libicuuc.so.67 libicuuc.so.66
sudo ln -s libwebp.so.7 libwebp.so.6

Now I have this error:

[err] /home/trusktr/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1343/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: symbol lookup error: /home/trusktr/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1343/minibrowser-wpe/lib/libWPEWebKit-1.0.so.3: undefined symbol: u_strToUpper_66

Any ideas? Maybe the new errors is due to linking to the wrong versions, which I know isn’t the actual solution.

trusktr on Oct 1, 2020

I am also using Arch, and got same errors.

nbyavuz on Jun 19, 2020

Missing libraries are:
libicui18n.so.66
libicuuc.so.66
libwebp.so.6
libenchant.so.1
Manjaro: I solved it by installing the following libs: aur/enchant1.6 aur/icu66 aur/libwebp052

I did that too, but I still had some missing libraries, so I had to also install aur/libffi7 And run this command: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpcre.so /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 After that the problem was gone

vaziliybober on Jun 25, 2022

@yury-s Arch Linux x86_64

tahmid-shahriar on Jun 19, 2020

using arch wsl, I installed these package and solved it yay -S enchant icu66 libwebp gtk3 nss alsa-lib dbus-glib

can everyone confirm this?

Microsoft should provide also an option for Arch based operative systems.

SalahAdDin on Dec 3, 2022

i wouldn’t call it “runs everywhere” 😆 Anyways, my arch error after all comments in this thread is:

  1) [webkit] › example.spec.ts:3:5 › has title ────────────────────────────────────────────────────

    browserType.launch: 
    ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
    ║ Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. ║
    ║ Missing libraries:                                   ║
    ║     libflite_cmu_us_awb.so.1                         ║
    ║     libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1                         ║
    ║     libflite_cmu_us_rms.so.1                         ║
    ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Playwright - 1.31.0 Arch - 6.1.12-arch1-1

slch on Feb 23, 2023

❯ uname -r
6.0.1-arch2-1

yay -S libffi7 enchant1.6 icu66 libwebp052

sudo ln -s libicui18n.so.67 libicui18n.so.66
sudo ln -s libicuuc.so.67 libicuuc.so.66
sudo ln -s libwebp.so.7 libwebp.so.6
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libffi /usr/lib/libffi.so.8.1.2

jorgelaranjo on Dec 5, 2022

With Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (minimal installation) + Playwright 1.10.0 when running WebKit you get this error:

libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Protocol error (Playwright.enable): Browser closed.
==================== Browser output: ====================
<launching> /home/tanguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1446/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
<launched> pid=22226
[pid=22226][err] /home/tanguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1446/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[pid=22226] <process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>Error
    at /home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/wkConnection.js:105:63
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at WKSession.send (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/wkConnection.js:104:16)
    at Function.connect (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/wkBrowser.js:72:37)
    at WebKit._connectToTransport (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/webkit.js:32:38)
    at WebKit._innerLaunch (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:131:36)
    at async ProgressController.run (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/progress.js:79:28)
    at async WebKit.launch (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:78:25)
    at async BrowserServerLauncherImpl.launchServer (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/browserServerImpl.js:58:25)
    at async PlaywrightRunner.launchServer (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/jest-playwright-preset/lib/PlaywrightRunner.js:68:44)

Solution:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

tkrotoff on Apr 20, 2021

Is it because of the latest libwebp-1.1.0-1 ?

@somoy99 It might be! But i wouldn’t say anything for sure.

All in all, our recent effort at making launch experience smoother should help you here: you’ll get a list of all missing dependencies, at least as of our upcoming 1.3 release.

We don’t consider missing dependency a bug in this case since ArchLinux support is out of scope for us at the moment. Closing this since it’s not actionable on our side.

aslushnikov on Jul 22, 2020