Jest failing with "Call retries were exceeded", using --runInBand works-around issue

🐛 Bug Report

I’ve got 2 test files. In the test, a WebAssembly object gets instantiated. This instantiation seems to stall for some reason when running the test in CI. Locally running jest passes the tests fine.

In CI they fail with this error:

  ● Test suite failed to run

    Call retries were exceeded

      at ChildProcessWorker.initialize (../node_modules/jest-worker/build/workers/ChildProcessWorker.js:193:21)

When -i is used however, they pass as well in CI.

Jest: 24.8.0 Node: 10.15.0 Local env: macOS, 10.14.6 (18G84)) CI env: CircleCI, Docker Linux 6a7bd3b63625 4.15.0-1035-aws #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 18 16:15:14 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

To Reproduce

I don’t have a concise repro repo at this moment.

Expected behavior

I expect the tests to pass as well when not run in band.

Link to repl or repo (highly encouraged)

Don’t have it at this moment.

Run `npx envinfo --preset jest`

Paste the results here:

CI:

npx: installed 1 in 1.719s

  System:
    OS: Linux 4.15 Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 9 (stretch)
    CPU: (36) x64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.15.0 - ~/.nodenv/versions/10.15.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.17.3 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.4.1 - ~/.nodenv/versions/10.15.0/bin/npm

Local:

Environment:
  OS:  macOS 10.14.6
  Node:  10.15.0
  Yarn:  1.17.3
  npm:  6.4.1
  Watchman:  Not Found
  Xcode:  Xcode 10.3 Build version 10G8
  Android Studio:  3.1 AI-173.4819257

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:59
Comments:84 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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dimagimburgcommented, Jul 1, 2020

adding --runInBand, worked for me. I don’t know why and I don’t care as long as i see greens 🟢 🙈

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jiaoqiqicommented, Aug 10, 2021

Meet the same issue when upgrade node from 12.13 to 16, any update on this? “jest”: “^25.5.4”, “react”: “^16.14.0”, “node”: “16”

Test suite failed to run

    Call retries were exceeded

      at ChildProcessWorker.initialize (node_modules/jest-worker/build/workers/ChildProcessWorker.js:191:21)
      at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:394:28)
      at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)