Cypress crashes on running sample tests

[noelrappin]

Current behavior

Ruby on Rails project, installed Cypress via cypress-rails, but before I can even get to the Rails specific stuff or the my-app, just the Cypress sample tests.

Running any sample test crashes the Cypress test runner with the following in the logs:

(node:47175) MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 close listeners added to [EventEmitter]. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
(node:47319) MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 preprocessor:close listeners added to [EventEmitter]. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
Error: kill EPERM
    at ChildProcess.kill (internal/child_process.js:492:26)
    at /Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/index.js:34:14
    at Promise.cancellationExecute [as _execute] (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:406:9)
    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:518:18)
    at new Promise (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:103:10)
    at Object.kill [as close] (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/index.js:21:10)
    at Object.onError (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/project-e2e.js:58:36)
    at EventEmitter.handleError (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:174:17)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:19:22)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at emit (internal/child_process.js:876:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:85:21)
 {
  errno: 'EPERM',
  code: 'EPERM',
  syscall: 'kill'
}
Error: kill EPERM
    at ChildProcess.kill (internal/child_process.js:492:26)
    at /Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/index.js:34:14
    at Promise.cancellationExecute [as _execute] (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:406:9)
    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:518:18)
    at new Promise (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:103:10)
    at Object.kill [as close] (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/browsers/index.js:21:10)
    at Object.onError (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/project-e2e.js:58:36)
    at EventEmitter.handleError (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/index.js:174:17)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/noelrappin/Library/Caches/Cypress/6.5.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Resources/app/packages/server/lib/plugins/util.js:19:22)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at emit (internal/child_process.js:876:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:85:21)

GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/actions.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/support/index.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/aliasing.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/assertions.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/connectors.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/cookies.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/cypress_api.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/files.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/local_storage.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/location.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/misc.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/navigation.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/network_requests.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/querying.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/spies_stubs_clocks.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/traversal.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/utilities.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/viewport.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/waiting.spec.js - - ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/examples/window.spec.js - - ms - -

Desired behavior

Cypress sample tests should run

Test code to reproduce

Happens running any or all of the Cypress sample tests

Versions

Cypress 6.5.0, it did work in 4.12 several months ago. MacOS 11.2.1. Any browser (though sometimes it won't even connect to chrome)

[jennifer-shehane]

EPERM is a permissions error. Opening Cypress will require write permissions, you'll need to verify the correct permissions are set and rerun.

Duplicate of #7640

[noelrappin]

Pretty sure I have write permission on the on the cache directory, so what directory do I need to set?