npx tape-run fails in GitHub Actions workflow.

[aacic]

The command npx tape-run fails in GitHub Actions workflow in case ubuntu-latest is used. Currently, the default runner for ubuntu-latest is Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS.

Error log:

npx tape-run --static ../public
npm error Lifecycle script `test:unit` failed with error:
npm error code 1
npm error path /home/runner/work/proteinpaint/proteinpaint/client
npm error workspace @sjcrh/proteinpaint-client@2.104.1-0
npm error location /home/runner/work/proteinpaint/proteinpaint/client
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c ./test.sh *.unit.spec.*
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

The same workflow executes successfully on: ubuntu-22.04.

[fergiemcdowall]

Same here. Not sure why it has suddenly stopped working:

• Fails also when I run locally with act
• Fails when I downgrade to tape-run@10
• Fails when I downgrade the runner image from runs-on: ubuntu-latest to runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

No drama- it just quietly exits with exitcode '1'.

I tried re-running a couple of my older passing builds in GitHub Actions and they also seem to have stopped working.

I suspect that there has been some general change to all of the Ubuntu images that breaks tape-run.

[fergiemcdowall]

Everything works fine on Actions with the macos-latest image and xvfb-run removed from the test command, so it definitely seems to be something to do with xvfb and/or the Linux images that is causing tape-run to error.

[fergiemcdowall]

browser-run is also throwing the same error as tape-run on the Linux images, so I suspect the fix lies somewhere in that direction.

[fergiemcdowall]

related?