fix: prevent playwright CI from hanging on apt interactive prompts#1508
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Set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive so the secondary apt-get call inside `playwright install --with-deps` never blocks on debconf/needrestart prompts, which was causing the job to hang for 30 minutes until timeout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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playwright uses `sudo -- sh -c "apt-get ..."` with no -E flag, so env vars set in the workflow step are stripped by sudo's env_reset. Writing to /etc/environment is read by PAM and survives the sudo env reset, ensuring apt never blocks on interactive prompts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…do call playwright internally runs `sudo -- sh -c "apt-get ..."` with no -E flag. sudo's env_reset strips DEBIAN_FRONTEND and NEEDRESTART_MODE before the shell starts, so setting them in the workflow env has no effect. Adding them to sudoers env_keep preserves them through the reset, unblocking both debconf and needrestart interactive prompts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… hang needrestart runs as a dpkg trigger after apt-get installs packages and can block waiting for interactive input when services need restarting. Removing it from the throwaway CI runner is the most reliable fix since env var approaches (DEBIAN_FRONTEND, sudoers env_keep) don't survive playwright's internal `sudo -- sh -c` invocation cleanly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--with-deps installs hundreds of packages including fonts-unifont which triggers a slow fc-cache rebuild, and uses azure.archive.ubuntu.com mirrors that are intermittently unreachable on GitHub runners, causing the step to hang past the 30-minute job timeout. Install the browser binary first, then only the ~7 system libs Chromium actually needs. This cuts install time from 20+ min to under 10 min. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
apt-get update on ubuntu-latest runners tries azure.archive.ubuntu.com which is intermittently unreachable, causing hangs. The runner image package lists are already up to date so we can install directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hang playwright install chromium runs a post-download validation that calls its own internal `sudo apt-get update && apt-get install` for any missing .so libs. On ubuntu-latest, apt-get update hangs on azure mirrors. By installing the 7 required libs first (using the runner's existing package cache, no update needed), playwright's validation finds them all present and skips the internal apt-get entirely. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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playwright install --with-deps chromiumruns a secondaryapt-get installafter downloading the browser binaryDEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, apt can block on interactive prompts (debconf/needrestart), hanging the job until the 30-minute timeout firesDEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractiveenv var to that stepTest plan
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