Starting March 15th, our previously passing tests started failing with the message: “Navigation failed because browser has disconnected!” These tests use the docker image circleci/node:11-browsers. We use the npm package puppeteer-core to run our browser tests. These tests are on a scheduled workfl…

We have identified a possible cause of this issue. We won’t run any jobs on the upgraded OS before the fix is out. So your affected jobs should now work fine again. We’ll update here once the fix is rolled out.

Thanks @alexey Not sure if this information is helpful, but our “nightly” jobs just ran again, and they failed in the same way.

@katelynsills or @alexey we are still seeing this issue. Just started seeing it in a Docker build using circleci/node:8.12.0. This works locally when using docker-compose to run the same service.

Hi @danasto , I haven’t checked recently, but the issue was continuing long enough that we moved from using puppeteer-core to puppeteer. Puppeteer installs chromium, so we didn’t have to rely on the installed browsers. Inefficient to say the least, but it worked for us.

Thanks, unfortunately we already use Puppeteer but don’t use the version of Chromium in node_modules, we pre-download. The odd thing is we use circleci/node:8.12.0, and then run our builds inside a node alpine image. We should not be seeing a “container” run fine locally using docker-compose run and…

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drazisil March 19, 2019, 1:57pm 2

Being investigated under Upgrading the underlying operating system for the Docker executor

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