[Question]Exception : com.microsoft.playwright.PlaywrightException: Failed to read message from driver, pipe closed. Skipping browsers download because `PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD` env variable is set.

Hi Team,

Getting the below exception .

com.microsoft.playwright.PlaywrightException: Failed to read message from driver, pipe closed. Skipping browsers download because PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD env variable is set. i’m running the test in playwright docker img via jenkins.

Playwright version:1.14.1 JDK : 1.8.0_275 Maven: 3.6.3 Chromium : 86.0.4240.111

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agaramudhalacommented, Oct 1, 2021

lemme try to recreate the project for sharing since i couldn’t share the existing one as is due to organisation restrictions

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kb33gitcommented, Jun 14, 2022

I am getting exact same issue, because of organization policies we are not allowed to download any external jars/software hence I added PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1 to User environment variable and trying to use installed browser binaries. I am not using any docker, jenkins etc. its simple maven project with playwright dependency and one line of code “Playwright play = Playwright.create();” stack trace as below

I:\ds\tools\jdk8\1.8.0_321\bin\java.exe … Skipping browsers download because "PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD eny variable is set Exception in thread “main” com.microsoft.playwright.PlaywrightException : Failed to read message from driver, pipe closed. at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.Pipe Transport.poll(Pipe Transport.java:75) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.Connection.processone Message (Connection.java:202), at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.ChannelOwner.rununtil(ChannelOwner.java:101) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.Connection.sendMessage(Connection.java:115) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.ChannelOwner.sendMessage(ChannelOwner.java:94) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.Connections Root.initialize(Connection.java:82) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.Connection.initializePlaywright(Connection.java:183) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.PlaywrightImpl.create(PlaywrightImpl.java:45) at com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright.create(Playwright.java:92) at com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright.create(Playwright.java:96) at com.jpmorgan.projectplaywright.PlaywrightTest.main(PlaywrightTest.java:7) Caused by: java.io.EOFException at com.microsoft.playwright.impl. ReaderThread.readIntLE(Pipe Transport.java:110) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl. ReaderThread.readMessage(Pipe Transport.java:139) at com.microsoft.playwright.impl. ReaderThread.run(Pipe Transport.java:125) Process finished with exit code 1

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