Error: Failed to launch the browser process! Unable to open X display.

Bug description

I am on a Windows 11 machine, running Puppeteer from Ubuntu 20.4 (WSL 2.0)

This is the standard boilerplate code to run things:

async function ssr(url) {
  const browserHeadless = await puppeter.launch({ 
    headless: true,
  })

  const page = await browserHeadless.newPage()

  ...

Everything seems to work just fine when the optional param headless is set to true.

However, when I want to test things with headless: false, things go belly up.

I have literally scoured the net, Stack Overflow, GitHub, including puppeteer troubleshooting, this issue, this other issue and other articles read online.

Puppeteer version

10.4.0

Node.js version

16.13.0

npm version

8.1.0

What operating system are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

reject(new Error([
                   ^
Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
[10270:10270:1103/133318.960840:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1409)] Unable to open X display.

TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md

    at onClose (/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:197:20)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:188:79)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:402:35)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)

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kommandercommented, Sep 8, 2022

We ran into a similar issue, running with docker compose locally:

pdf-1  | [1] /app/workspaces/apps/pdf/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:229
pdf-1  | [1]             reject(new Error([
pdf-1  | [1]                    ^
pdf-1  | [1] 
pdf-1  | [1] Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
pdf-1  | [1] Error: Can't open display: 
pdf-1  | [1] 
pdf-1  | [1] 
pdf-1  | [1] TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md
pdf-1  | [1] 
pdf-1  | [1]     at onClose (/app/workspaces/apps/pdf/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:229:20)
pdf-1  | [1]     at Interface.<anonymous> (/app/workspaces/apps/pdf/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:219:68)
pdf-1  | [1]     at Interface.emit (node:events:539:35)
pdf-1  | [1]     at Interface.close (node:readline:586:8)
pdf-1  | [1]     at Socket.onend (node:readline:277:10)
pdf-1  | [1]     at Socket.emit (node:events:539:35)
pdf-1  | [1]     at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1345:12)
pdf-1  | [1]     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

Using "puppeteer": "13.1.2",, with manually installed chromium on node:16.15.0-bullseye-slim.
Setting:

PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium
PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true

Starting puppeteer like so:

this.browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox'] });

EDIT: When running chromium-browser --product-version I only get:

root@eb2379677dc0:/app# chromium --product-version
Error: Can't open display:

EDIT 2: Same issue with newer versions of puppeteer

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OrKoNcommented, Nov 4, 2022

Same issue as https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/8148

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