Cypress verify fails with permission error for Github Actions on Linux

[mel-OR]

Current behavior

When running our Github action, the job fails on the cypress verify step:

/usr/local/bin/npx cypress cache list
┌─────────┬──────────────┐
│ version │ last used    │
├─────────┼──────────────┤
│ 8.7.0   │ 3 months ago │
└─────────┴──────────────┘
/usr/local/bin/npx cypress verify
[STARTED] Task without title.
[FAILED] EACCES: permission denied, open '/github/home/.cache/Cypress/8.7.0/binary_state.json'
An unexpected error occurred while verifying the Cypress executable.

Desired behavior

Complete the verification within an accessible folder and update the cache as necessary.

Test code to reproduce

Snippet of the action:

jobs:
  ui-chrome-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container: cypress/browsers:node16.5.0-chrome94-ff93
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: "UI Tests - Chrome"
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
        with:
          # we have already installed all dependencies above
          install: true
          browser: chrome

Cypress Version

8.7.0, 9.3.1

Other

No response

[alexnitta]

I'm also experiencing this issue.

[flotwig]

There is a workaround for this issue on the corresponding issue on cypress-io/github-actions: cypress-io/github-action#446 (comment)

[alexnitta]

Thanks @flotwig - that workaround is fixing the issue for me.

[mel-OR]

options: --user 1001 workaround fixed my team's issue.

[tetonpeaks]

After clearing my Cypress cache folder with cypress clear cache I ran into this issue as well.

This is what I did:

1. rm -rf the Cypress folder in your .cache director
2. For me I also deleted the Cypress folder in node_modules
3. Cleaned cache with npm cache clean --force
4. Installed Cypress with npm install cypress --save-dev

Hope this helps!

[cypress-app-bot]

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[cypress-app-bot]

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