[BUG] Webkit problem with libwebp-1.1.0-1, error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6

[tahmid-shahriar]

Context:

• Playwright Version: ^1.1.1
• Operating System: Arch Linux x86_64
• Kernel: 5.7.2-arch1-1
• Node version: v14.4.0
• Browser: WebKit
• Extra: libwebp-1.1.0-1

Code Snippet

const playwright = require('playwright')

;(async () => {
  for (const browserType of ['webkit']) {
    const browser = await playwright[browserType].launch()
    const context = await browser.newContext()
    const page = await context.newPage()
    await page.goto('http://whatsmyuseragent.org/')
    await page.screenshot({ path: `example-${browserType}.png` })
    await browser.close()
  }
})()

Describe the bug
error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6

 pw:api => webkit.launch started +0ms
  pw:api <= webkit.launch failed +23ms
(node:329099) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Protocol error (Playwright.enable): Browser has been closed.
==================== webkit.launch logs ====================
<launching> /home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
<launched> pid=329110
/home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/minibrowser-wpe/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libwebp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
<process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>
============================================================
Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs.Error
    at /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:104:63
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at WKSession.send (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:103:16)
    at Function.connect (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkBrowser.js:50:37)
    at WebKit._connectToTransport (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit.js:33:38)
    at WebKit._innerLaunch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:86:36)
    at async ProgressController.run (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/progress.js:76:28)
    at async WebKit.launch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:61:25)
    at async /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/src/index.js:5:21
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:329099) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
(node:329099) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

which I fixed by creating the symbolic link manually.
sudo ln /usr/lib/libwebp.so.7 /usr/lib/libwebp.so.6

Then again running into

 pw:api => webkit.launch started +0ms
  pw:api <= webkit.launch failed +24ms
(node:330939) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Protocol error (Playwright.enable): Browser has been closed.
==================== webkit.launch logs ====================
<launching> /home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
<launched> pid=330950
/home/thesorryguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1269/minibrowser-wpe/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
<process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>
============================================================
Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs.Error
    at /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:104:63
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at WKSession.send (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkConnection.js:103:16)
    at Function.connect (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/webkit/wkBrowser.js:50:37)
    at WebKit._connectToTransport (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit.js:33:38)
    at WebKit._innerLaunch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:86:36)
    at async ProgressController.run (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/progress.js:76:28)
    at async WebKit.launch (/home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:61:25)
    at async /home/thesorryguy/Documents/youtube-stream/src/index.js:5:21
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:330939) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
(node:330939) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Which I solved by creating the symbolic link manually again.
sudo ln /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3

Is it because of the latest libwebp-1.1.0-1 ?

[yury-s]

Which Linux distribution are you using?

[tahmid-shahriar]

@yury-s Arch Linux x86_64

[nbyavuz]

I am also using Arch, and got same errors.

[aslushnikov]

Is it because of the latest libwebp-1.1.0-1 ?

@somoy99 It might be! But i wouldn't say anything for sure.

All in all, our recent effort at making launch experience smoother should help you here: you'll get a list of all missing dependencies, at least as of our upcoming 1.3 release.

We don't consider missing dependency a bug in this case since ArchLinux support is out of scope for us at the moment. Closing this since it's not actionable on our side.

[trusktr]

Arch support would be nice!

I had missing .so errors, which I solved with

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libicui18n.so.67 libicui18n.so.66
sudo ln -s libicuuc.so.67 libicuuc.so.66
sudo ln -s libwebp.so.7 libwebp.so.6

Now I have this error:

[err] /home/trusktr/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1343/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: symbol lookup error: /home/trusktr/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1343/minibrowser-wpe/lib/libWPEWebKit-1.0.so.3: undefined symbol: u_strToUpper_66

Any ideas? Maybe the new errors is due to linking to the wrong versions, which I know isn't the actual solution.

[knaitas]

Arch support would be nice!

I had missing .so errors, which I solved with

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libicui18n.so.67 libicui18n.so.66
sudo ln -s libicuuc.so.67 libicuuc.so.66
sudo ln -s libwebp.so.7 libwebp.so.6

Now I have this error:

[err] /home/trusktr/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1343/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: symbol lookup error: /home/trusktr/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1343/minibrowser-wpe/lib/libWPEWebKit-1.0.so.3: undefined symbol: u_strToUpper_66

Any ideas? Maybe the new errors is due to linking to the wrong versions, which I know isn't the actual solution.

Same issue, did you manage to solve it?

[allgrowsm]

I had the same issue in ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

I run following command and solved it.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install libgles2
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-libav
sudo apt-get install libharfbuzz-icu0
sudo apt-get install libwoff1
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-gl1.0-0
sudo apt-get install libwebp-dev

Can you please include everything when we install?

Cheers

[fuzunspm]

same issue here on arch linux

Missing libraries are:
libicui18n.so.66
libicuuc.so.66
libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0
libwebp.so.6
libenchant.so.1

After linking system libraries with above i get the error below

[err] /home/username/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1402/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: symbol lookup error: 

/home/username/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1402/minibrowser-wpe/lib/libWPEWebKit-1.0.so.3: undefined symbol: u_strToLower_66

[DahliaWitt]

I'm running Manjaro and I'm encountering the same issue:

Error: Host system is missing dependencies!

  Missing libraries are:
      libwebp.so.6
      libenchant.so.1
      libicui18n.so.66
      libicuuc.so.66

Is Arch support on the roadmap? Has anyone found a workaround?

[tkrotoff]

With Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (minimal installation) + Playwright 1.10.0 when running WebKit you get this error:

libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Protocol error (Playwright.enable): Browser closed.
==================== Browser output: ====================
<launching> /home/tanguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1446/pw_run.sh --inspector-pipe --headless --no-startup-window
<launched> pid=22226
[pid=22226][err] /home/tanguy/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1446/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[pid=22226] <process did exit: exitCode=127, signal=null>Error
    at /home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/wkConnection.js:105:63
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at WKSession.send (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/wkConnection.js:104:16)
    at Function.connect (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/wkBrowser.js:72:37)
    at WebKit._connectToTransport (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/webkit/webkit.js:32:38)
    at WebKit._innerLaunch (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:131:36)
    at async ProgressController.run (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/progress.js:79:28)
    at async WebKit.launch (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/browserType.js:78:25)
    at async BrowserServerLauncherImpl.launchServer (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/playwright/lib/browserServerImpl.js:58:25)
    at async PlaywrightRunner.launchServer (/home/tanguy/dev/flex-wrap-layout/examples/node_modules/jest-playwright-preset/lib/PlaywrightRunner.js:68:44)

Solution:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad

[Evidlo]

same issue here on arch linux

Missing libraries are:
libicui18n.so.66
libicuuc.so.66
libgstcodecparsers-1.0.so.0
libwebp.so.6
libenchant.so.1

After linking system libraries with above i get the error below

[err] /home/username/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1402/minibrowser-wpe/bin/MiniBrowser: symbol lookup error: 

/home/username/.cache/ms-playwright/webkit-1402/minibrowser-wpe/lib/libWPEWebKit-1.0.so.3: undefined symbol: u_strToLower_66

Install the correct version of libicu manually:

wget 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu66_66.1-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb' -O /tmp/libicu66.deb
dpkg -i /tmp/libicu66.deb

[dmitriiweb]

Missing libraries are:
libicui18n.so.66
libicuuc.so.66
libwebp.so.6
libenchant.so.1

Manjaro: I solved it by installing the following libs:
aur/enchant1.6
aur/icu66
aur/libwebp052