[Bug]:

Version

1.58.2

Steps to reproduce

playwright install chromium hangs silently with no output
Root cause: stale __dirlock file at ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/__dirlock
No error, no timeout, no hint about the lock — just a hang
DEBUG=pw:install also produces no output when this happens
macOS (Darwin 25.3.0), Playwright 1.58.2

Expected behavior

output that explains that a dirlock was found would be super helpful.

Actual behavior

It just hangs indefinitely.

Additional context

No response

Environment

System:
    OS: macOS 26.3.1
    CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M4
    Memory: 86.06 MB / 16.00 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 24.9.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
    npm: 11.6.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
  IDEs:
    VSCode: 1.105.0 - /usr/local/bin/code
    Claude Code: 2.1.76 - /opt/homebrew/bin/claude
  Languages:
    Bash: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash

Can't repro this and should not happen according to the code.

It happened to me 3 times today, but thanks for the effort.

this is a reproducible case for me. Seems like __dirlock is the culprit. Downgrading to node@24 also helps which might be expected as playwright does not support node@26

  System:
    OS: macOS 26.4.1
    CPU: (16) arm64 Apple M4 Max
    Memory: 217.80 MB / 48.00 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 26.1.0 - /Users/mrecl/.nvm/versions/node/v26.1.0/bin/node
    npm: 11.13.0 - /Users/mrecl/.nvm/versions/node/v26.1.0/bin/npm
    pnpm: 11.0.8 - /Users/mrecl/.nvm/versions/node/v26.1.0/bin/pnpm
  Languages:
    Bash: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
  npmPackages:
    @playwright/test: ^1.55.1 => 1.59.1

❯ sudo DEBUG=pw:install pnpm  exec playwright install
Password:
  pw:install downloading Chrome for Testing 147.0.7727.15 (playwright chromium v1217) - attempt #1 +0ms
Downloading Chrome for Testing 147.0.7727.15 (playwright chromium v1217) from https://cdn.playwright.dev/builds/cft/147.0.7727.15/mac-arm64/chrome-mac-arm64.zip
  pw:install running download: +1ms
  pw:install -- from url: https://cdn.playwright.dev/builds/cft/147.0.7727.15/mac-arm64/chrome-mac-arm64.zip +0ms
  pw:install -- to location: /tmp/playwright-download-YFhjen/playwright-download-chromium-mac15-arm64-1217.zip +0ms
  pw:install -- response status code: 200 +1s
  pw:install -- is chunked: false +0ms
  pw:install -- total bytes: 173508376 +0ms
165.5 MiB [====================] 100% 0.0s
  pw:install -- download complete, size: 173508376 +11s
  pw:install SUCCESS downloading Chrome for Testing 147.0.7727.15 (playwright chromium v1217) +1ms
  pw:install removing existing browser directory if any +0ms
  pw:install extracting archive +0ms
  < gave it ~3 hours and nothing more was printed >

it also happens on linux CI when building a docker image

...
#12 54.68 Setting up gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 (1.26.2-3+deb13u1) ...
#12 54.69 Processing triggers for dictionaries-common (1.30.10) ...
#12 54.88 Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.41-12+deb13u2) ...
#12 54.97 Downloading Chrome for Testing 147.0.7727.15 (playwright chromium v1217) from https://cdn.playwright.dev/builds/cft/147.0.7727.15/linux64/chrome-linux64.zip
#12 56.32 |                                                                                |   0% of 170.4 MiB
#12 56.64 |■■■■■■■■                                                                        |  10% of 170.4 MiB
#12 56.79 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                                                                |  20% of 170.4 MiB
#12 56.91 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                                                        |  30% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.04 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                                                |  40% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.16 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                                        |  50% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.28 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                                |  60% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.41 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                        |  70% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.54 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■                |  80% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.66 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■        |  90% of 170.4 MiB
#12 57.79 |■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■| 100% of 170.4 MiB
Session terminated, killing shell... ...killed.
WARNING: Timed out waiting for the build to finish
ERROR: Job failed: execution took longer than 1h0m0s seconds

This appears to be an issue with yauzl in extractZip which is already fixed upstream: thejoshwolfe/yauzl#169

Pavel Feldman (@pavelfeldman)

Pavel Feldman (@pavelfeldman) Can you please reopen this issue? This is completely blocking our CI on npmx: npmx-dev/npmx.dev#2783. Looks like Fabian Iwand (@mootari) has narrowed in on the cause and trivial fix 🙏🏼.

Fabian Iwand (@mootari)

Fabian Iwand (@mootari) 🤔 wait #40724 seems to be a duplicate and it was fixed by #40747?

Philippe Serhal (@serhalp)

Philippe Serhal (@serhalp) Good catch, looks like it's already fixed 🎉

Navigation Menu

Repository navigation

[Bug]: #39692

Version

Steps to reproduce

Expected behavior

Actual behavior

Additional context

Environment

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Type

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

[Bug]: #39692

Description

Version

Steps to reproduce

Expected behavior

Actual behavior

Additional context

Environment

Activity

pavelfeldman commented on Mar 15, 2026

salbee17 commented on Mar 15, 2026

mrecl-dlb commented on May 11, 2026

mootari commented on May 24, 2026

serhalp commented on May 24, 2026

serhalp commented on May 24, 2026

mootari commented on May 24, 2026

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Type

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

Issue actions