Cypress: Error while downloading Cypress in jenkins by npm

[vittalas]

Current behavior:

We have a npm dependency of Cypress(3.1.4) in our project

Desired behavior:

Cypress npm dependency should be successfully downloaded.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

Add cypress3.1.4 as a npm dependency and do a yarn install.

Below logs will give the exact error;

09:51:29 [4/4] Building fresh packages...
09:51:31 error /ibp/data/myproject/node_modules/cypress: Command failed.
09:51:31 Exit code: 1
09:51:31 Command: node index.js --exec install
09:51:31 Arguments: 
09:51:31 Directory: /ibp/data/myproject/node_modules/cypress
09:51:31 Output:
09:51:31 Installing Cypress (version: 3.1.4)
09:51:31 
09:51:31 [?25l[09:51:29]  Downloading Cypress     [started]
09:51:31 [09:51:31]  Downloading Cypress     [completed]
09:51:31 [09:51:31]  Unzipping Cypress       [started]
09:51:31 read err { Error: invalid stored block lengths
09:51:31     at InflateRaw.zlibOnError (zlib.js:153:15) errno: -3, code: 'Z_DATA_ERROR' }
09:51:31 [?25hevents.js:183
09:51:31       throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
09:51:31       ^
09:51:31 
09:51:31 Error: extra field length exceeds extra field buffer size
09:51:31     at /ibp/data/myproject/node_modules/yauzl/index.js:305:83
09:51:31     at /ibp/data/myproject/node_modules/yauzl/index.js:618:5
09:51:31     at /ibp/data/myproject/node_modules/fd-slicer/index.js:32:7
09:51:31     at FSReqWrap.wrapper [as oncomplete] (fs.js:658:17)

Versions

Cypress version 3.1.4

[jennifer-shehane]

I recall some older zlib errors we fixed, but this looks like an error we haven't seen before. https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1756

Anything unusual about your Jenkins setup you could add to the issue? Must be some edge case since we haven't seen this.

[vittalas]

As you can see the build is very inconsistent and each of the failures are due to the above issue

[bahmutov]

I believe it is a network problem and the zip does not successfully download each time. You should cache the downloaded and installed Cypress binary to avoid re-downloading it each time. See https://on.cypress.io/caching and examples for various CIs in https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-kitchensink#ci-status

[vittalas]

@bahmutov actually our CI runs on a clean image everytime and we frequently run into this issue. While there are many other packages that we download but we have not seen these issues.

[fraindz]

I faced a similar error with git lab ci. Even after multiple tries, the error stayed. But retrying the next day, the issue was gone. So it does appear to be a temporary issue.

[luisrudge]

I'm having the same issues with circleci consistently (never works)

[vittalas]

we dont see this issue with other packages except for this one, and we consistently see this issue !

[mvpowers]

Having the same issue with Cypress 3.2.0 in Jenkins

15:25:48.5174 [4/4] Building fresh packages...
15:25:52.5095 error .../node_modules/cypress: Command failed.
15:25:52.5095 Exit code: 1
15:25:52.5096 Command: node index.js --exec install
15:25:52.5096 Arguments:
15:25:52.5096 Directory: .../node_modules/cypress
15:25:52.5096 Output:
15:25:52.5096 Installing Cypress (version: 3.2.0)
15:25:52.5096
15:25:52.5096 [?25l[15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress     [started]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      0% 0s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      2% 5s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      5% 4s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      10% 3s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      13% 3s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      17% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:50]  Downloading Cypress      22% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      24% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      29% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      32% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      34% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      38% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      43% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      46% 2s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      50% 1s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      65% 1s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloading Cypress      93% 0s [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloaded Cypress      [title changed]
15:25:52.5096 [15:25:51]  Downloaded Cypress      [completed]
15:25:52.5097 [15:25:51]  Unzipping Cypress       [started]
15:25:52.5097 [15:25:52]  Unzipping Cypress        0% 0s [title changed]
15:25:52.5097 [?25hevents.js:174
15:25:52.5097       throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
15:25:52.5097       ^
15:25:52.5097
15:25:52.5097 Error: extra field length exceeds extra field buffer size
15:25:52.5097     at .../node_modules/cypress/node_modules/yauzl/index.js:314:83
15:25:52.5097     at .../node_modules/cypress/node_modules/yauzl/index.js:631:5
15:25:52.5097     at .../node_modules/cypress/node_modules/fd-slicer/index.js:32:7
15:25:52.5097     at FSReqWrap.wrapper [as oncomplete] (fs.js:463:17)

[Alexander091]

I also had the same issue on CodeShip. In my case, my image didn't have one of the necessary dependencies for cypress (libnotify-dev).
see: https://on.cypress.io/continuous-integration#Dependencies
I performed command sudo apt-get update -qq --yes && sudo apt-get install libnotify-dev -qq and that helped to me