fix(ci): retry Playwright system-deps install past apt mirror stalls - #2756
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`apt-get update`, run inside `npx playwright install-deps chromium`, stalls intermittently on the runner's Azure mirrors. On 2026-08-19 it killed the e2e job three consecutive times on one commit — each run ignoring azure.archive.ubuntu.com, then hanging on archive.ubuntu.com noble-security until the 6-minute cap — while sibling runs minutes apart cleared the same step in seconds. Unrelated branches hit it the same afternoon, so it is not branch-specific. The stall is transient, so retry rather than mask: three attempts with a 150s per-attempt cap, dropping to the canonical archive after the first failure. One bad mirror now costs an attempt instead of the whole job. Deliberately still exits non-zero once the attempts are spent. Since `Run E2E tests` is continue-on-error, a setup step is the only thing that can red this job — making the install non-fatal would leave a genuinely missing system library silently unreported. The job cap moves 6 → 9 minutes to fit three bounded attempts; it stays well under the job's own 20-minute ceiling, so the fail-fast property that `ci-success` depends on is preserved. Verified by extracting the run block and exercising it under `bash -e` with fakes for npx/sudo/timeout: succeeds on first pass, recovers on a third attempt, and exits 1 when all three stall. The guarded pkill/sed cleanups return non-zero without aborting the script. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018GWaH5h1Prm6zpeXkKWcZR
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In @.github/workflows/tests.yml:
- Around line 234-236: Update the “Install Playwright system deps” workflow step
so cold-cache runs also use the bounded retry behavior currently applied to
cache-hit runs, while preserving the existing cache-hit condition and timeout
handling.
- Around line 243-244: Update the timeout invocation wrapping “npx playwright
install-deps chromium” to include a suitable --kill-after duration so
descendants that ignore SIGTERM are terminated; then remove the global “sudo
pkill -9 -f '[a]pt-get'” cleanup command while preserving the apt partial-list
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| - name: Install Playwright system deps | ||
| if: steps.pw-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'true' | ||
| timeout-minutes: 6 | ||
| run: npx playwright install-deps chromium | ||
| timeout-minutes: 9 |
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printf '%s\n' '--- related install and cache references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'playwright install|pw-cache|cache-hit|timeout-minutes|pkill|azure\.archive|security' .github/workflows/tests.yml
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printf '%s\n' '--- branch reachability probe ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
text = Path(".github/workflows/tests.yml").read_text()
steps = [
("Install Playwright browsers",
"if: steps.pw-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'",
"timeout-minutes: 6",
"npx playwright install --with-deps chromium"),
("Install Playwright system deps",
"if: steps.pw-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'true'",
"timeout-minutes: 9",
"npx playwright install-deps chromium"),
]
for name, condition, timeout, command in steps:
print(f"{name}:")
print(f" condition={condition}")
print(f" timeout={timeout}")
print(f" dependency_install={'--with-deps' in command or 'install-deps' in command}")
print("conditions_are_complements=" + str(
"!= 'true'" in steps[0][1] and "== 'true'" in steps[1][1]
))
print("cold_cache_uses_retry_loop=" + str(
"Install Playwright browsers" in text and
"for attempt in 1 2 3; do" in text.split("Install Playwright browsers", 1)[1].split("Install Playwright system deps", 1)[0]
))
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Apply the retry path to cold-cache installs.
When the browser cache misses, npx playwright install --with-deps chromium installs system dependencies under the six-minute timeout. The retry loop runs only on cache hits. Apply bounded dependency installation to both paths, or document and test that the mirror-failure guarantee applies only to cache-hit runs.
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In @.github/workflows/tests.yml around lines 234 - 236, Update the “Install
Playwright system deps” workflow step so cold-cache runs also use the bounded
retry behavior currently applied to cache-hit runs, while preserving the
existing cache-hit condition and timeout handling.
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Correct observation, deliberately out of scope here — taking your second option ("document and test that the mirror-failure guarantee applies only to cache-hit runs"), which the PR description already does under Not addressed.
Reasoning for leaving it:
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A 150s per-attempt cap is the wrong shape for that step. The cold path runs
install --with-deps, which downloads ~250MB of browser binaries before touching apt. A legitimate cold install regularly exceeds 150s on its download alone, so copying this loop over would convert a slow-but-healthy install into three truncated ones. It needs its own budget, not this one. -
I can't test it in this PR. The cache key is
playwright-${{ runner.os }}-${{ steps.pw.outputs.version }}and 1.58.2 is already cached, so every run on this branch takes the cache-hit path. Restructuring the cold path here would ship untested code down a branch CI won't exercise until the next Playwright bump — exactly when you'd least want a surprise. -
Different exposure profile. Cache-hit is every run; cache-miss is only on a version bump. Fixing the path that fails daily first, with evidence, is the smaller and more verifiable change.
The right follow-up is probably to split the cold path into install chromium (generous download budget) + the shared bounded install-deps loop, so both paths converge on one retry policy. That's a bigger change and worth its own PR where the cold path can actually be exercised — happy to open it if a maintainer wants it now rather than later.
Leaving this thread open rather than resolving it, since it's a real gap I'm declining rather than fixing.
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@innolope-dev, acknowledged. Your scope decision is reasonable.
The cold-cache path needs a separate download budget. Reusing the 150-second install-deps cap would risk failing valid browser downloads. The cache-hit path has the higher current exposure and is the only path that this PR can verify.
The finding remains valid but is intentionally deferred. A follow-up should split browser download from system-dependency installation, then apply the shared bounded install-deps retry path. Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for that follow-up?
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Learning: For peanutprotocol/peanut-ui PR `#2756`, `.github/workflows/tests.yml` intentionally limits the bounded 150-second retry loop to cache-hit `npx playwright install-deps chromium` runs. Do not apply that cap directly to cold-cache `npx playwright install --with-deps chromium` runs, because browser downloads can legitimately exceed 150 seconds. A follow-up should split browser download from system-dependency installation and use the shared bounded dependency retry path after the download.
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Learning: In `.github/workflows/tests.yml`, the Playwright system-dependency retry step must use GNU `timeout` with `--kill-after` to terminate `npx playwright install-deps chromium` and its process group. Do not use global `pkill -f` cleanup for `apt-get`, because it can terminate unrelated package operations on the GitHub Actions runner. Keep the `/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*` cleanup after a failed attempt to remove partial apt-list state.
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Review feedback on the retry loop. `timeout` already runs the attempt in its own process group and signals that whole group, so the apt children do receive the SIGTERM — `--kill-after=15s` escalates to SIGKILL for any that ignore it. That makes `sudo pkill -9 -f '[a]pt-get'` both redundant and unsafe: it matched by command line across the entire runner, so it could have killed unrelated package work rather than only this step's descendants. Removed. The apt partial-list cleanup stays — that clears state a killed attempt leaves behind, which is what the next attempt trips over. Re-verified under `bash -e` with fakes: succeeds first pass, recovers on the third attempt, exits 1 when all three stall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018GWaH5h1Prm6zpeXkKWcZR
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Why
apt-get update, run insidenpx playwright install-deps chromium, stalls intermittently on the runner's Azure mirrors and takes the wholee2ejob down with it.On 2026-08-19 it killed e2e three consecutive times on a single unchanged commit (#2755, runs
32275904840,32277999994, and a re-run of the latter). Every failure has the same shape:It is not branch-specific — unrelated branch
feat/design-systemhit the identical failure the same afternoon (run32273292053), whilefeat/push-provisioningcleared the same step in seconds eleven minutes later. The stall is transient and mirror-side.This currently blocks merges:
ci-successaggregatese2e, so a mirror hiccup reds a PR whose code is fine.What changed
One step in
.github/workflows/tests.yml— three attempts with a 150s per-attempt cap, dropping to the canonical archive after the first failure:A bad mirror now costs one attempt instead of the whole job.
Why retry rather than
continue-on-errorMaking the step non-fatal was the obvious one-liner, and it is wrong here.
Run E2E testsis alreadycontinue-on-error: true, so a setup step is the only thing that can red this job. Marking the install non-fatal too would leave a genuinely missing system library silently unreported — the job would go green with no browser. So the step still exits non-zero once the attempts are spent.The cap moves 6 → 9 minutes to fit three bounded attempts (3 × 150s plus cleanup ≈ 8 min worst case). That stays well under the job's own
timeout-minutes: 20, so the fail-fast property the existing comment describes —ci-successmust always report, or content-publish-automerge stalls at all-green-of-zero — is preserved.Testing
GitHub Actions can't run locally, so I extracted the
runblock straight from the parsed YAML and exercised it under the runner'sbash -ewith fakes fornpx/sudo/timeout:::warning::lines::error::— genuine failure stays redThe guarded
pkill/sedcleanups were faked to return non-zero to confirm they don't abort the script under-e.pkilluses the'[a]pt-get'bracket form so it can't match its own command line. YAML parses andprettier --checkpasses.What this does not prove is behaviour against a real stalled mirror — that can only be observed in CI over time. If the mirrors are stalling for longer than 150s per attempt rather than intermittently, this will need the fallback moved earlier.
Not addressed
The sibling
Install Playwright browsersstep (cache-miss path,install --with-deps) shares the same apt exposure and would hit this on any Playwright version bump. I left it alone deliberately: it also downloads browser binaries, so a 150s per-attempt cap is the wrong shape for it and it needs its own timing profile. Worth a follow-up.Generated by Claude Code
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