Angular 6 upgrade broke karma. Executed 0 of 0 Error

[crh225]

Upgrading to Angular 6 broke karma somehow and none of my tests run.

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- [X] devkit
- [ ] schematics

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Repro steps

download repo here
https://github.com/crh225/angular-github-issues
run yarn and the run ng test

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no log given

Desired functionality

my tests run as they did before

Mention any other details that might be useful

here is my commit going from angular 5 to angular 6
crh225/angular-github-issues@bbc8c81

[crh225]

I used the ng upgrade to upgrade angular

[crh225]

it was related to another npm package. (firebase). see angular/angularfire#1597

[L2jLiga]

I have the same issue, but I don't use firebase

"dependencies": {
    "@angular/animations": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/common": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/compiler": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/core": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/forms": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/http": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/language-service": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/router": "6.0.1",
    "@ngrx/effects": "6.0.0-beta.3",
    "@ngrx/store": "6.0.0-beta.3",
    "@ngrx/store-devtools": "6.0.0-beta.3",
    "busboy": "0.2.14",
    "core-js": "^2.5.5",
    "express": "4.16.2",
    "express-session": "1.15.6",
    "file-saver": "1.3.3",
    "font-awesome": "4.7.0",
    "grant-express": "3.8.0",
    "jsonwebtoken": "^8.2.0",
    "lodash": "4.17.4",
    "moment": "2.19.4",
    "mydatepicker": "2.6.1",
    "numeral": "2.0.6",
    "primeng": "5.0.2",
    "request": "2.83.0",
    "rxjs": "6.1.0",
    "rxjs-compat": "6.1.0",
    "zone.js": "0.8.26"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular/cli": "6.0.1",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "6.0.1",
    "@angularclass/hmr": "^2.1.3",
    "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "~0.6.1",
    "@types/jasmine": "2.8.7",
    "@types/jasminewd2": "2.0.3",
    "@types/node": "8.0.58",
    "@types/numeral": "0.0.22",
    "codelyzer": "4.2.1",
    "jasmine-core": "2.99.1",
    "jasmine-marbles": "0.3.1",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "4.2.1",
    "karma": "1.7.1",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "2.2.0",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "1.4.2",
    "karma-jasmine": "1.1.1",
    "karma-mocha-reporter": "2.2.5",
    "npm-run-script": "0.0.4",
    "protractor": "5.3.2",
    "rimraf": "2.6.2",
    "ts-node": "~5.0.1",
    "tslint": "5.9.1",
    "typescript": "2.7.2"
  }