Cypress failed to start on official container

[federicochiesa]

I'm using a cypress container as part of a GitLab CI pipeline. The GitLab CI runner runs on Kubernetes, and the nodes run BottleRocket. The nodes are ARM machines, specifically AWS t4 instances.

This is the log I get from the pipeline:

$ cd $TEST
$ npm i
added 204 packages, and audited 205 packages in 19s
41 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details
3 vulnerabilities (1 moderate, 2 critical)
To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
  npm audit fix --force
Run `npm audit` for details.
$ npx cypress run
[STARTED] Task without title.
[FAILED] Cypress failed to start.
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] This may be due to a missing library or dependency. https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Please refer to the error below for more details.
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] ----------
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] /root/.cache/Cypress/8.7.0/Cypress/Cypress: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] ----------
[FAILED] 
[FAILED] Platform: linux (Debian - 13.1)
[FAILED] Cypress Version: 8.7.0
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.
----------
/root/.cache/Cypress/8.7.0/Cypress/Cypress: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
----------
Platform: linux (Debian - 13.1)
Cypress Version: 8.7.0

I can't find a solution. The docker image I'm using is cypress/included:cypress-15.4.0-node-22.20.0-chrome-141.0.7390.54-1-ff-143.0.4-edge-141.0.3537.57-1

[MikeMcC399]

@federicochiesa

The log says:

[FAILED] Cypress Version: 8.7.0

This is a legacy version of Cypress that is basically now unsupported.
Running this under a cypress/included Docker image with a different Cypress version (15.4.0) is likely to cause issues.
You could try instead running under cypress/base if you are testing only with Electron or cypress/browsers if you are testing against other browsers.
To update your Cypress 8.7.0 tests to a supported version of Cypress refer to https://docs.cypress.io/app/references/migration-guide and migrate from one major version to the next.