[Bug]: webkit launch ends in failure on Ubuntu 24.04

[radekBednarik]

Version

1.45.1

Steps to reproduce

1. clone repo [email protected]:radekBednarik/pw-repro-webkit-fail.git
2. npm install
3. npx playwright install --with-deps
4. npx playwright test

Expected behavior

Example tests are expected to PASS.

Actual behavior

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

    Error: browserType.launch: Target page, context or browser has been closed
    Browser logs:

    <launching> /home/radek/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-2035/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
    <launched> pid=34434
    [pid=34434][err] /home/radek/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-2035/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    [pid=34434] <process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>
    [pid=34434] starting temporary directories cleanup
    Call log:
      - <launching> /home/radek/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-2035/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
      - <launched> pid=34434
      - [pid=34434][err] /home/radek/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-2035/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libvpx.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      - [pid=34434] <process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>
      - [pid=34434] starting temporary directories cleanup

Additional context

• Running on WSL under Win11

Environment

System:
    OS: Linux 5.15 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
    CPU: (32) x64 AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
    Memory: 28.97 GB / 30.90 GB
    Container: Yes
  Binaries:
    Node: 20.15.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.15.0/bin/node
    npm: 10.7.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v20.15.0/bin/npm
    pnpm: 9.3.0 - /mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/pnpm
    bun: 1.1.4 - ~/.bun/bin/bun
  IDEs:
    VSCode: 1.90.2 - /mnt/c/Users/bedna/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code
  Languages:
    Bash: 5.2.21 - /usr/bin/bash
  npmPackages:
    @playwright/test: ^1.45.1 => 1.45.1

[mxschmitt]

I tried to reproduce doing the following, but was not able to:

wsl --install --distribution Ubuntu-24.04
sudo su
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
source /root/.bashrc
nvm install 20
cd
git clone https://github.com/radekBednarik/pw-repro-webkit-fail
cd pw-repro-webkit-fail
npm install
npx playwright install --with-deps
npx playwright test

What am I doing different? Did you update your Ubuntu to 24?

Could you try

npx playwright uninstall
npx playwright install --with-deps

[radekBednarik]

@mxschmitt hello, yes, that worked! looks like update from 22.04 to 24.04 broke something. Thanks and this can be closed.

[mxschmitt]

(probably you still had our 22.04 version of WebKit installed, so re-installing the browser will download the 24.04 version of it).

[juliaogris]

I too have misbehaving webkit tests on Ubuntu noble (24.04) after upgrade, however

npx playwright uninstall
npx playwright install --with-deps

did not fix it for me.

The same tests work fine when run via mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.48.0-noble docker image.

I cannot create a minimal reproduce of my system setup and I'm completely in the dark how to best debug this. Here's one thing I've tried:

$ DEBUG=pw:browser npx playwright test
...

w:browser [pid=24665][err] ** (MiniBrowser:24685): CRITICAL **: 15:25:02.402: WebKitWebView is-controlled-by-automation set but automation is not allowed in the context, falling back to default session. +0ms
  pw:browser [pid=24665][err] MESA: error: zink: could not create swapchain +116ms
  pw:browser [pid=24665] <gracefully close start> +30s
  pw:browser [pid=24665] <process did exit: exitCode=0, signal=null> +11ms

Any pointers much appreciated.