dri3 extension not supported error when running with xvfb in GitHub Action

[palewire]

Hello. I'm trying to run a headful Playwright browser inside GitHub Actions and running into trouble. I suspect this has to do with some nuance of configuring xvfb or the like.

My current roadblock is that unit tests and manual runs that work properly on my laptop are failing in GitHub Actions with an error that ends dri3 extension not supported and reads:

playwright._impl._api_types.TimeoutError: Timeout 30000ms exceeded.
=========================== logs ===========================
<launching> /opt/google/chrome/chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=ImprovedCookieControls,LazyFrameLoading,GlobalMediaControls,DestroyProfileOnBrowserClose,MediaRouter,AcceptCHFrame,AutoExpandDetailsElement,CertificateTransparencyComponentUpdater --allow-pre-commit-input --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --no-service-autorun --export-tagged-pdf --no-sandbox --disable-extensions-except=/home/runner/work/news-homepages/news-homepages/newshomepages/extensions/uBlock0.chromium --load-extension=/home/runner/work/news-homepages/news-homepages/newshomepages/extensions/uBlock0.chromium --user-data-dir=.chromium --remote-debugging-pipe about:blank
<launched> pid=5077
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5101:0501/155113.391161:ERROR:bus.cc(398)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5101:0501/155113.391244:ERROR:bus.cc(398)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5101:0501/155113.404284:ERROR:bus.cc(398)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5101:0501/155113.404312:ERROR:bus.cc(398)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5120:0501/155113.512668:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(623)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5120:0501/155113.512973:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(623)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.GetDisplayDevice: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[pid=5077][err] [5077:5120:0501/155113.513145:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(623)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.EnumerateDevices: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[pid=5077][err] libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[pid=5077][err] [5110:5110:0501/155113.750394:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(185)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[pid=5077][err] libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[pid=5077][err] [5135:5135:0501/155113.808305:ERROR:gpu_memory_buffer_support_x11.cc(44)] dri3 extension not supported.

More information is available here in the action run: https://github.com/palewire/news-homepages/runs/6248046186?check_suite_focus=true

Any help sorting out the issue would be appreciated.

[mxschmitt]

Looks like some Chromium issue, would running the tests headless work for you? It even increases the performance since no GUI / xserver needs to be emulated.

[palewire]

Headless is already working great in the main branch. I'm going headful because the Playwright docs suggest it's necessary to run the browser with an extension. In this case it's an ad blocker.

[palewire]

Put another way, I'd be happy to adopt any alternative method that works if I can use the ad blocker extension. That's my real goal. I don't really care if the operation is headful or headless.

[palewire]

I'm continuing to fumble around with this bug, which has become a blocker to my itty bitty humble project. One development: If I add the --disable-gpu flag to the Playwright browser boot the dri3 error disappears, but the process still times out on GitHub Actions, despite working locally. Perhaps something else is the root cause? Here's the latest log.

[mxschmitt]

Sorry for the late reply. Were you able to reproduce it with the Chromium which Playwright ships? Since you are using Google Chrome from the operating system.

[rwoll]

Closing as part of triage

[masaok]

This worked for me: https://shouv.medium.com/how-to-run-cypress-on-wsl2-989b83795fb6