E2E tests instability: electronApplication.browserWindow: Execution context was destroyed, most likely because of a navigation

[odockal]

Bug description

The patch for #4968 was merged and it introduced probably a regression. E2E main tests started to fail. It is very interesting that Smoke E2E suite is still passing without any issues.

Error differs a bit when run locally, run the nature could be the same.

Playwright test log (this one differs)

Error: electronApplication.browserWindow: Execution context was destroyed, most likely because of a navigation.

Console output:

main ↪️ System ready. Loading extensions...
STDERR: Error creating window Error: ERR_FAILED (-2) loading 'file:///home/odockal/git/podman-desktop/packages/renderer/dist/index.html'
    at rejectAndCleanup (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:84559)
    at WebContents.stopLoadingListener (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:84946)
    at WebContents.emit (node:events:514:28) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ERR_FAILED',
  url: 'file:///home/odockal/git/podman-desktop/packages/renderer/dist/index.html'
}

Operating system

Linux

Installation Method

Other

Version

next (development version)

Steps to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

main ↪️ System ready. Loading extensions...
STDERR: Error creating window Error: ERR_FAILED (-2) loading 'file:///home/odockal/git/podman-desktop/packages/renderer/dist/index.html'
    at rejectAndCleanup (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:84559)
    at WebContents.stopLoadingListener (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:84946)
    at WebContents.emit (node:events:514:28) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ERR_FAILED',
  url: 'file:///home/odockal/git/podman-desktop/packages/renderer/dist/index.html'
}

Additional context

No response

[odockal]

The problem seems to be introduced with remove playwright dep
and eventually partially fixed for e2e smoke tests with add playwright install step in gha file. Now @ScrewTSW is working on the fix for all e2e tests.

[odockal]

It might be that the fix mentioned above is not directly solving this issue.
Instead we might adjust opening - closing developer tools window in application startup and preferences, decribed in #5031.

[odockal]

Outstanding PR could also fix an issue, but it seems that it is not a way how to properly fix the issue.

[odockal]

Solved by: #5274

[cbr7]

Reopened because issue is still occurring.