[BUG] Failed to launch the browser process

[Goooler]

Describe the bug

 Running linkspector with reviewdog 🐶 ...
  💥 Main error: Failed to launch the browser process:  Code: 2
  
  stderr:
  /home/runner/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux_arm-142.0.7444.162/chrome-linux64/chrome: 1: $@@@�����Dv�Dv��������U1�U1���������P��: not found
  /home/runner/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux_arm-142.0.7444.162/chrome-linux64/chrome: 2: �������,5����������h: not found
  /home/runner/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux_arm-142.0.7444.162/chrome-linux64/chrome: 1: ELF: not found
  /home/runner/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux_arm-142.0.7444.162/chrome-linux64/chrome: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
  
  TROUBLESHOOTING: https://pptr.dev/troubleshooting
  
  reviewdog: parse error: failed to unmarshal rdjson (DiagnosticResult): proto: syntax error (line 1:1): unexpected token 
  Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

See

• 6_Run [email protected]
• https://github.com/GradleUp/shadow/actions/runs/19358077110/job/55383286435?pr=1836

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Use the action:

  - uses: umbrelladocs/action-linkspector@v1
    with:
      reporter: github-pr-check
      fail_on_error: true
      filter_mode: nofilter
      fail_level: any

Run it and you'll see. Or reproduce the issue in https://github.com/GradleUp/shadow.

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[gaurav-nelson]

Thank you @Goooler

The issue is that the action is running on OS: Linux (arm64) which is not supported by Puppeteer on Linux.

However, there is a workaround to download the Chrome binary and then provide it to puppeteer. Till I get to update the action and gracefully handle this, can you test if it works on x64 architecture for you?

Thanks.

[Goooler]

After switching to ubuntu-latest, it works. Thanks for the help!

BTW, the action worked on ubuntu-24.04-arm but failed randomly. I filed issue #141. Now it always fails on the arm runners.