Xvbf fails to start with Host RHEL 9.3 + Docker 25.0.3 + Cypress Base Image

[whlucky]

After upgrading our Build Servers to RHEL 9.3 our Gitlab CI/CD Steps running Cypress Tests started to fail.

[FAILED] Cypress Version: 13.6.6
Cypress failed to start.
This may be due to a missing library or dependency. https://on.cypress.io/required-dependencies
Please refer to the error below for more details.
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[31:0322/115354.489665:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[31:0322/115354.873807:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(240)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[31:0322/115354.873822:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.

After lots of trail and error I could pinpoint the issue to Xvfb as it did even fail after starting Xvfb manually with

Xvfb -ac :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 &
export DISPLAY=:99

I tried lots of different cypress images include cypress/base:latest and cypress/browsers:node-20.9.0-chrome-118.0.5993.88-1-ff-118.0.2-edge-118.0.2088.46-1.
We could verify that this is a problem with the combination of RHEL 9.3, Docker and the cypress base image, as we could get it to run again by using ubuntu:latest and installing the requirements, so there is probably some incompability between RHEL 9.3 and the cypress base images.

[podlesny-j]

@whlucky care to share your setup or functioning Dockerfile if you can, please? 🙏
I am running into similar issues and I could use some guidance.

[whlucky]

@podlesny-j sure:

FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y curl
RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_21.x | bash
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs
RUN apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libgbm-dev libnotify-dev libnss3 libxss1 libasound2 libxtst6 xauth xvfb

Just the latest ubuntu image with all cypress dependencies installed.