Having trouble running Cypress in ARM-based Debian Docker container

[Chekote]

Howdy,

I've been trying to get Cypress to run in Docker, using an ARM-based Debian container. But for some reason, Cypress is still trying to load x86 modules:

$ cypress run --spec e2e/src/messages.e2e-spec.ts
It looks like this is your first time using Cypress: 9.5.1


Cypress failed to start.

This may be due to a missing library or dependency. https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies

Please refer to the error below for more details.

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qemu-x86_64: Could not open '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory

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Platform: linux-x64 (Debian - 10.12)
Cypress Version: 9.5.1

I do not understand why cypress claims the platform is linux-x64, when the container it is running within is aarch64:

$ docker container run -it --rm chekote/node:latest-cypress-slim uname -m
aarch64

I am using the exact same container to install the node_modules via yarn install --frozen-lockfile.

Here's the Dockerfile I used to build the image:

# chekote/node:latest-cypress-slim
# chekote/node:{node version}-cypress-slim
FROM chekote/node:latest-dev-slim

RUN set -eux; \
    #
    # Upgrade all packages
    apt-get update; \
    apt-get upgrade -y; \
    #
    # Cypress Dependencies
    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
        libgtk2.0-0 \
        libgtk-3-0 \
        libgbm-dev \
        libnotify-dev \
        libgconf-2-4 \
        libnss3 \
        libxss1 \
        libasound2 \
        libxtst6 \
        xauth \
        xvfb; \
    #
    # Cleanup
    apt-get remove -y; \
    apt-get autoremove -y; \
    apt-get clean; \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \

Does anyone have any idea why Cypress is behaving this way?

[Chekote]

I'm closing this as a duplicate of #15461. Also see https://www.cypress.io/blog/2021/01/20/running-cypress-on-the-apple-m1-silicon-arm-architecture-using-rosetta-2/.