Browserinit fails in Azure Devops

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Hi all,

I’m trying to install and initialize the Browser Library in Azure Devops.

In my YAML file I use:

- script:
    rfbrowser init

The error message I’m getting is not very helpful to me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.12/x64/bin/rfbrowser”, line 8, in
sys.exit(run())
File “/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.12/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Browser/entry.py”, line 237, in run
rfbrowser_init(args.skip_browsers)
File “/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.12/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Browser/entry.py”, line 53, in rfbrowser_init
raise error
File “/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.12/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Browser/entry.py”, line 45, in rfbrowser_init
_rfbrowser_init(skip_browser_install, install_file)
File “/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.7.12/x64/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Browser/entry.py”, line 155, in _rfbrowser_init
+ f"Node process returned with exit status {process.returncode}"
RuntimeError: Problem installing node dependencies.Node process returned with exit status 1
##[error]Bash exited with code ‘1’.
##[section]Finishing: CmdLine

Has anybody got an idea how to solve this?

2

Hi, maybe first clean dependencies on browser’s nodes and binaries:
command: “rfbrowser clean-node”

3

ow and for the installation in Azure you need the “NodeTool” that you can added to your yaml.
That works fine for me.

4

It turned out that we were using the wrong node.js version (to old).

This yaml works:

- task: NodeTool@0
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '16.x'
  displayName: 'Installing Node.js'

- script:
    pip install --upgrade pip
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  displayName: 'Installing RF tool stack'

- script:
    rfbrowser init
  displayName: 'RF Browser init'

Thanks for your input!

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