Issues using DEBUG var env

[FranciscoMSM]

Current behavior:

When I run DEBUG=cypress:* cypress run I got ALL the messages from cypress.
So far so good.
When I try to be more specific ie DEBUG=cypress:server* cypress run - I don't get to see any log at all.

Desired behavior:

According to the docs I should be able to use more specific selectors like the docs ones but they don't seem to work.

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

DEBUG=cypress:server:* cypress run produces no extra logging

Versions

Cypress 3.4.0, Debian 9, Electron 61 Headless

[jennifer-shehane]

I'm not able to reproduce this issue using Cypress 3.8.1 or 3.4.0, OSX

Please comment providing more information that may be relevant to why this is happening so that we can investigate.

We use debug package for this printing, so maybe it is something involving that. https://github.com/visionmedia/debug

[jennifer-shehane]

Reopening with another person mentioning the DEBUG logs not printing for them. #6160

To reproduce this issue, you can simply start a new cypress project:

npm i --save cypress
./node_modules/.bin/cypress open

If you run
DEBUG=cypress* node_modules/.bin/cypress run
all debugs are printed in the console

if you run
DEBUG=cypress:server:browsers:electron node_modules/.bin/cypress run
No debug message is printed

Operating System: Linux Mint

I was not able to reproduce this behavior however on Mac Catalina.

[jennifer-shehane]

Closing since still unable to reproduce. Please comment if you're encountering this issue with a description of your system, how you're setting the env vars (maybe even print all env vars) and the output during cypress run and we will consider reopening.

[jennifer-shehane]

Someone we worked with that had this issue, we narrowed it down to a permissions issue with setting the environment variable in their terminal/shell. You may need to run your terminal in administrative mode or review your permission settings.

[szy54]

@jennifer-shehane I am currently facing it and with DEBUG=cypress:server* cypress run it works locally on OSX, however it doesn't work on the ubuntu20.04 EC2 that I usually run the cypress from (as part of CI in jenkins).
I doubt the problem is with permissions to set the env var.
I'll leave couple examples from myself, but I'm not able to dig into cypress or debug package code myself to analyze it during $work.
My aim was to enable cypress:server:video logs and you'll laugh at how I achieved it 🤣
DEBUG=cypress:* works
DEBUG=cypress:cli* works
DEBUG=cypress:server* doesn't work
DEBUG=cypress:*,cypress:server:video prints everything
DEBUG=cypress:cli*,cypress:server:video prints only cli*
also I realised that excluding is working
DEBUG=cypress:*,-cypress:cli* works as expected
so I ended up with enabling cypress:* and excluding everything else that I don't need. 🤯
DEBUG=cypress:*,-cypress:launcher*,-cypress:ts*,-cypress:https*,-cypress:proxy*,-cypress:server:u*,-cypress:server:validation*,-cypress:server:r*,-cypress:server:s*,-cypress:server:t*,-cypress:server:p*,-cypress:server:o*,-cypress:server:a*,-cypress:server:b*,-cypress:server:c*,-cypress:server:d*,-cypress:server:e*,-cypress:server:f*,-cypress:server:g*,-cypress:server:h*,-cypress:server:i*,-cypress:server:w*,-cypress:n*,-cypress:c*

[gedkirkham]

I resolved this issue by running the below command.

export DEBUG=cypress* rather than DEBUG=cypress*