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"npx playwright install" timing out in CircleCI

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Logan (Apryse)posted in #help-playwright
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Logan (Apryse)

Hello,

Yesterday, our CircleCI pipelines started failing randomly. We are running npx playwright install --with-deps chromium as one of our steps, but that command is timing out after ten minutes with the following error:

Too long with no output (exceeded 10m0s): context deadline exceeded

Daemons using outdated libraries
Which services should be restarted?

xvfb.service

We have not made any changes to our playwright version or config - this error started happening out of the blue.

Has anyone run into this and managed to resolve it?

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This thread is trying to answer question "Has anyone encountered and resolved an issue where 'npx playwright install --with-deps chromium' times out in CircleCI?"

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Logan (Apryse)

Just a follow up, I ended up fixing this by adding

environment:
      NEEDRESTART_MODE: a
      DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive

To our CircleCI config. I don't know why this fixes it, but it does!

tphillips8117

DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive means it should not expect to have any user input, which it looks like it was, which was stalling the installation and failing

tphillips8117

NEEDRESTART_MODE could be set to l if you are setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive

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