whatsapp-web.js: Error: Failed to launch the browser process!

error description

Getting this error when deploying to server, locally is running fine

(node:46580) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch the browser process! /var/www/whatsapp-automation/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-901912/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md

at onClose (/var/www/whatsapp-automation/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:197:20)
at Interface.<anonymous> (/var/www/whatsapp-automation/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:187:68)
at Interface.emit (events.js:412:35)
at Interface.close (readline.js:451:8)
at Socket.onend (readline.js:224:10)
at Socket.emit (events.js:412:35)
at endReadableNT (internal/streams/readable.js:1317:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:82:21)

(Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created) (node:46580) 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: 1) (node:46580) [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.

Library

NodeJS version (14.17.0):
whatsapp-web.js version:

Other

Operating system (the one running node) [Linux ]:

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 24 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Clean the modules and reinstall. It works.

+14

avalenti89 on Dec 29, 2021

Closing as unrelated to whatsapp-web.js. This is likely due to something with your environment not being able to run puppeteer.

pedroslopez on Feb 6, 2022

Hi. As pointed out correctly by @N-D-P the issue is that the required dependencies are not installed for ubuntu. I followed his path and got it working. Below is the command that you can use. To install chromium

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Install the dependencies.

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates fonts-liberation libasound2 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgbm1 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libnss3 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 lsb-release wget xdg-utils

uthx on Jan 27, 2023

use const client = new Client({ puppeteer: { headless: true,args: [‘–no-sandbox’, ‘–disable-setuid-sandbox’]}, session: sessionCfg });

ahmadsofuwan on Nov 22, 2021

use const client = new Client({ puppeteer: { headless: true,args: [‘–no-sandbox’, ‘–disable-setuid-sandbox’]} });

ashuvax on May 16, 2022

No one? help us, pls!

Alejandroo98 on Mar 20, 2022

use const client = new Client({ puppeteer: { headless: true,args: [‘–no-sandbox’, ‘–disable-setuid-sandbox’]}, session: sessionCfg });

doesn’t work for me. I’m using the lib on EC2 linux. Version: 1.15.3

avalenti89 on Dec 28, 2021

Great !! Happy Coding 😉 @uthx

N-D-P on Jan 30, 2023

This solution worked for EC2 linux server

Install Cromium-browser.

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Install other dependencies required for ubuntu sudo apt-get install gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 li-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 li libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget libgbm-dev

NOTE : As whatsapp-web.js is constantly upgrading, by the time you replicate this steps you may need to install some more dependencies apart from mentioned in Step 2. Just copy that dependency and stackoverflow it you will surely get its solution.

N-D-P on Mar 30, 2022

Same error here. I found that if I add this buildpack to Heroku repo, it works but the slug size increase over 350mb:
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/jontewks/puppeteer-heroku-buildpack.git

And this is the only way I can deploy to Heroku and run the client at this moment:

const client = new Client({
    session: sessionData,
    puppeteer: {
        headless: true,
        args: ['--no-sandbox']
    }
});

jeremyandes on Jan 14, 2022