new Error(The process '${this.toolPath}' failed with exit code ${this.processExitCode});

[CaiqueCoelho]

I'm getting the following error when running the cypress-io/github-action on v5 or v6:

Signal received: 0, errno: 0
################################################################################
Stack trace:
################################################################################
/home/runner/work/openid_server_code/openid_server_code/node_modules/aws-crt/dist/bin/linux-x64/aws-crt-nodejs.node(aws_backtrace_print+0x41) [0x7f004fc16a71]
/home/runner/work/openid_server_code/openid_server_code/node_modules/aws-crt/dist/bin/linux-x64/aws-crt-nodejs.node(+0x82c73) [0x7f004f8adc73]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x14420) [0x7f005def0420]
node() [0xa963ba]
node(_ZN2v88internal7Isolate38RunHostImportModuleDynamicallyCallbackENS0_6HandleINS0_6ScriptEEENS2_INS0_6ObjectEEENS0_11MaybeHandleIS5_EE+0x101) [0xed1141]
node(_ZN2v88internal25Runtime_DynamicImportCallEiPmPNS0_7IsolateE+0x9b) [0x12e78db]
node() [0x170e0b4]
/home/runner/work/_actions/cypress-io/github-action/v5/dist/index.js:3900
                error = new Error(`The process '${this.toolPath}' failed with exit code ${this.processExitCode}`);
                        ^

Error: The process '/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/18.19.0/x64/bin/npm' failed with exit code 255
    at ExecState._setResult (/home/runner/work/_actions/cypress-io/github-action/v5/dist/index.js:3900:25)
    at ExecState.CheckComplete (/home/runner/work/_actions/cypress-io/github-action/v5/dist/index.js:3883:18)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/_actions/cypress-io/github-action/v5/dist/index.js:3777:27)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1100:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5)

Looks like this problem is happening for more users on the following issue on Cypress repository cypress-io/cypress#24296

Cypress Version: 12.6.0
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04

My worklow.yml:

name: Cypress Tests

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened, ready_for_review, unlocked]

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

env:
  CI: true

jobs:
  cypress-raidiam:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04 # needed for mongo import
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    timeout-minutes: 15
    steps:
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 18

      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup Mongo
        uses: supercharge/[email protected]
        with:
          mongodb-version: 6
          mongodb-replica-set: test-rs

      - name: Launch Localstack
        run: |
          echo "Install aws localstack"
          pip install awscli-local==0.21
          pip install localstack-client==2.5
          pip install awscli==1.29.73
          pip install boto3==1.28.73
          pip install docutils==0.16
          pip install botocore==1.31.73
          pip install rsa==4.7.2
          pip install s3transfer==0.7.0
          pip install jmespath==1.0.1
          pip install python-dateutil==2.8.2
          echo "awscli and awslocal installed"
          echo "Starting Local Stack"
          docker compose -f docker-compose-localstack.yml up -d
          sleep 10
          bash .aws/localstack.sh
          bash create-resources.sh

      - name: Cypress Run Raidiam
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v5 # needed for node v18
        with:
          build: npm run build:cypress
          start: npm run cypress:test
          wait-on: 'http://localhost:9000/session/end'
          wait-on-timeout: 120
          browser: chrome
          record: true
          parallel: false
          group: ${{ env.TAG }}
          tag: ${{ env.TAG }}
        env:
          CYPRESS_grepTags: ${{ env.TAG }}

[CaiqueCoelho]

cc @tvthatsme @jarekcimoch @garmeeh

[MikeMcC399]

@CaiqueCoelho

Can you share your repository? If not, please provide the script definitions for

• build:cypress
• cypress:test

as used in:

          build: npm run build:cypress
          start: npm run cypress:test

You should not normally be running Cypress tests through the action's start (Server) parameter.

[MikeMcC399]

• This issue seems to be following on from cypress-io/github-action@v6 is always running on node 20 even when using setup-node with node-version 18 #1086

[MikeMcC399]

@CaiqueCoelho

If you look at the full log of your workflow you will probably find that the error

/home/runner/work/_actions/cypress-io/github-action/v5/dist/index.js:3900
                error = new Error(`The process '${this.toolPath}' failed with exit code ${this.processExitCode}`);
                        ^

Error: The process '/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/18.19.0/x64/bin/npm' failed with exit code 255

is caused by the failure of one of your npm calls.

If it is not clear which of the npm calls is the problem, then you can add the following into your workflow to gather additional debug information:

  env:
    DEBUG: '@cypress/github-action'

[MikeMcC399]

Closing due to lack of activity.

If there is new information we can re-open.