createPDF function hangs in Linux runners (but works fine in Windows)

[jorge-abarca]

The createPDF function in pdfWriter hangs when being executed by Linux runners, this even causes the Manual Test and Build and Test workflows to fail (given they are using a Linux image themselves). Interestingly enough, this issue doesn't affect Windows runners.

The root cause seems to be related to the parameters being passed when calling puppeteer.launch, I have a PR open that fixes this issue, but here is some code I borrowed from stackoverflow if you are in the middle of some refactoring and don't feel like going through all the commits:

      return puppeteer.launch({
        executablePath: revisionInfo.executablePath,
        headless: true,
        devtools: true,
        args: [
          '--ignore-certificate-errors',
          '--no-sandbox',
          '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
          '--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas',
          '--disable-gpu'
              ]
        })

I have tested this fix for both Linux and Windows runners. While this is not a critical issue, it is quite a head-scratcher given that it silently fails. In our case we would find some workflows with reports generated and others without any reports.

[peter-murray]

I had picked up some of these settings when updating the libraries, but have included a couple more of them from your suggestion. I do not agree with the --ignore-certificate-errors as there should be none loading a local file, so have not included that one.