GH Actions: playwright.sh and node: Permission denied

[imWildCat]

Repro step:

1. Step a Python project on GitHub using GH Actions to install playwright-python on the CI machine
2. While running python -m playwright install, you might see

Traceback (most recent call last):
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
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    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
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    exec(code, run_globals)
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/playwright-1.9.2-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/playwright/__main__.py", line 32, in <module>
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    main()
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/playwright-1.9.2-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/playwright/__main__.py", line 28, in main
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    subprocess.run([str(driver_executable), *sys.argv[1:]], env=my_env)
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 505, in run
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    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
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    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
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  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1823, in _execute_child
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    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
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PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/playwright-1.9.2-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/playwright/driver/playwright.sh'
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Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Sample GH Actions output: https://github.com/imWildCat/scylla/runs/2159854168?check_suite_focus=true#step:4:1244

I can only install playwright drive by using this workaround:

sudo chmod +x /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/playwright-1.9.2-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/playwright/driver/playwright.sh
python -m playwright install

In addition, after working around this issue, I also found another issue where no permission for node:

---------------------------- Captured stderr setup -----------------------------
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/playwright-1.9.2-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/playwright/driver/playwright.sh: 3: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.2/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/playwright-1.9.2-py3.9-linux-x86_64.egg/playwright/driver/node: Permission denied

Reference: https://github.com/imWildCat/scylla/pull/137/checks?check_run_id=2159995227#step:6:142

[kumaraditya303]

It is permission issue due to the use of sudo
Try this config:

name: 'Python package: Scylla'

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      max-parallel: 2
      matrix:
        python-version: [ 3.9 ]

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - uses: microsoft/playwright-github-action@v1
    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
      with:
        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: |
        sudo apt-get update -y
        sudo apt-get install libgnutls28-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev -y
        pip install -r tests/requirements-test.txt
        pip install -e.
        python -m playwright install
    - name: Lint with flake8
      run: |
        make style-check
    - name: Test with pytest
      run: |
        pytest --cov=./scylla tests

[imWildCat]

Thanks @kumaraditya303 but it doesn't feel like working: https://github.com/imWildCat/scylla/runs/2167141823

I wonder whether there's a way to install playwright directly in the shell script rather than use a pre-defined action?

[kumaraditya303]

@imWildCat The problem is that running playwright on especially Linux is not as simple as pip install playwright but rather it requires many system libraries and dependencies to be installed. Moreover as I can see there are permission error in your case but I don't think that's the real cause as I myself has a web application tested with playwright and it works flawlessly, I would like to ask if the tests you run are working locally by your side and you can try printing the permissions to check?, I have a thought that because your installation wasn't successful because of pycurl I guess it created some permission errors during pip installation.

[kumaraditya303]

@imWildCat I have updated the earlier yaml config, you may try it again

[imWildCat]

@kumaraditya303 Thanks a lot!

It works!

Could you share the location of playwright.sh? I couldn't find it but would like to take a look.