webshot.js returned failure value: 1

[ThierryO]

I'm having a similar issue as #112 when rendering a Rmarkdown file with leaflet() to pdf. Rendering the minimal example below returns the error Error in (function (url = NULL, file = "webshot.png", vwidth = 992, vheight = 744, : webshot.js returned failure value: 1. I've installed the latest version from CRAN and ran webshot::install_phantomjs(force = TRUE).

---
title: "Webshot test"
output: pdf_document
---

```{r leaflet, fig.cap = "webshot test"}
library(leaflet)
leaflet() |>
  setView(lat = 50.75695, lng = 4.00905, zoom = 15) |>
  addTiles()
```

─ Session info ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
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 os       Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu
 ui       RStudio
 language nl_BE:nl
 collate  nl_BE.UTF-8
 ctype    nl_BE.UTF-8
 tz       Europe/Brussels
 date     2023-02-01
 rstudio  2022.12.0+354 Elsbeth Geranium (desktop)
 pandoc   2.19.2 @ /usr/lib/rstudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown)

─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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 [1] /home/thierry/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0
 [2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
 [3] /usr/lib/R/site-library
 [4] /usr/lib/R/library

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[ThierryO]

The basic check fails add suggested here fails too.

> library(webshot)
> webshot("https://www.r-project.org/", "r.png")
Error in webshot("https://www.r-project.org/", "r.png") : 
  webshot.js returned failure value: 1

[vkehayas]

> library(webshot)
> webshot("https://www.r-project.org/", "r.png")
Auto configuration failed
139826745849792:error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library:dso_dlfcn.c:185:filename(libproviders.so): libproviders.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
139826745849792:error:25070067:DSO support routines:DSO_load:could not load the shared library:dso_lib.c:244:
139826745849792:error:0E07506E:configuration file routines:MODULE_LOAD_DSO:error loading dso:conf_mod.c:285:module=providers, path=providers
139826745849792:error:0E076071:configuration file routines:MODULE_RUN:unknown module name:conf_mod.c:222:module=providers
Error in webshot("https://www.r-project.org/", "r.png") : 
  webshot.js returned failure value: 1

> packageVersion("webshot")
[1] ‘0.5.2’

(Same with version 0.5.4)

Related to ariya/phantomjs#15449. It appears that phantomjs is not maintained anymore.

Following https://stackoverflow.com/a/72679175/6888231, this solution solves the issue for me

Sys.setenv(OPENSSL_CONF="/dev/null")

The reason is the updated OpenSSL of my system.

[ThierryO]

Sys.setenv(OPENSSL_CONF="/dev/null")

This solution works for me too.