Protocol error (Page.getInstallabilityErrors): 'Page.getInstallabilityErrors' wasn't found

[AfterThreeYears]

What is the current behavior?

Fails to produce seo report. Exits immediately.

n248-154-066:~$ lighthouse --chrome-flags="--headless" https://github.com --only-categories=seo
ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser. +0ms
ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser... +1ms
ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser..... +505ms
ChromeLauncher Waiting for browser.....✓ +1ms
config:warn Trace not requested by an audit, dropping trace in defaultPass +403ms
status Connecting to browser +10ms
status Resetting state with about:blank +13ms
status Benchmarking machine +23ms
status Initializing… +1s
status Running defaultPass pass AnchorElements, LinkElements, MetaElements, FontSize, EmbeddedContent, RobotsTxt, TapTargets, Accessibility, FullPageScreenshot +12ms
status Resetting state with about:blank +0ms
status Cleaning browser cache +20ms
status Preparing network conditions +3ms
status Beginning devtoolsLog and trace +2ms
status Loading page & waiting for onload +0ms
status Gathering in-page: AnchorElements +9s
status Gathering in-page: LinkElements +0ms
status Gathering in-page: MetaElements +0ms
status Gathering in-page: FontSize +0ms
status Gathering in-page: EmbeddedContent +0ms
status Gathering in-page: RobotsTxt +0ms
status Gathering in-page: TapTargets +1ms
status Gathering in-page: Accessibility +0ms
status Gathering in-page: FullPageScreenshot +0ms
status Gathering devtoolsLog & network records +0ms
status Gathering: AnchorElements +13ms
status Gathering: LinkElements +92ms
status Gathering: MetaElements +9ms
status Gathering: FontSize +12ms
status Gathering: EmbeddedContent +2s
status Gathering: RobotsTxt +6ms
status Gathering: TapTargets +472ms
status Gathering: Accessibility +74ms
status Gathering: FullPageScreenshot +1s
status Populate base artifacts +607ms
status Get webapp manifest +0ms
status Get webapp installability errors +251ms
method <= browser ERR:error Page.getInstallabilityErrors +1ms
status Disconnecting from browser... +1ms
ChromeLauncher Killing Chrome instance 2702339 +0ms
Runtime error encountered: Protocol error (Page.getInstallabilityErrors): 'Page.getInstallabilityErrors' wasn't found
Error: Protocol error (Page.getInstallabilityErrors): 'Page.getInstallabilityErrors' wasn't found
at Function.fromProtocolMessage (/usr/lib/node_modules/lighthouse/lighthouse-core/lib/lh-error.js:146:19)
at /usr/lib/node_modules/lighthouse/lighthouse-core/gather/connections/connection.js:141:25
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)

What is the expected behavior?
LH performance report

Environment Information

Affected Channels: Node
Lighthouse version: 7.5.0
Chromium version: Chromium 73.0.3683.75 built on Debian 9.8, running on Debian 9.11
Node.js version:v12.22.1
Operating System: Linux n248-154-066 4.14.81.bm.15-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.14.81.bm.15 Sun Sep 8 05:02:31 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linu

[patrickhulce]

Thanks for filing @AfterThreeYears!

That version of Chromium is very old. Lighthouse only supports running on Chrome stable or newer (version 90+).