Cypress 1.4.1 or 2.1.0 crashes on Windows 10

[trobbins1981]

Current behavior:

I launch cypress and I see my lists of tests.
I click on a test (it can be any test).
A chrome window briefly opens then it closes again

Desired behavior:

I would like for Cypress to work as designed, and start running my tests.

Steps to reproduce:

This issue appears to be intermittent. It never happened while I was on Cypress 1.4.1. Then, after upgrading to 2.1.0, it didn't happen at first, but then started to a week or so later. I then downgraded to 1.4.1 and it continued to happen. The next day, it started working again, but now today (a week later), it's crashing again.

Versions

Cypres 1.4.1 or 2.1.0
WIndows 10
Chrome 65

[trobbins1981]

I think I found a temporary solution for fixing it. Last time this this happened, it started working after I had put my computer to sleep then brang it right back. I figured it was a coincidence. Well, just now, I put my computer to sleep and brought it back, and it's working again.

[Saibamen]

Please retest with latest Cypress. Also install lates windows updates and npm

[jennifer-shehane]

Please try unsetting the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable if you have this set - as this causes Cypress to crash. This is due to an Electron bug prior to version 2.0.3, where having NODE_OPTIONS set causes either a failure or arguments to be ignored. electron/electron#12695 (comment)

To see all environment variables currently set

MacOS / Linux

printenv

Windows

SET

To unset NODE_OPTIONS environment variable

MacOS / Linux

unset NODE_OPTIONS # this is not the same as export NODE_OPTIONS=

Windows

set NODE_OPTIONS=

We have open issues for this being fixed that you can follow here:

• NODE_OPTIONS should not exit 0: Do not exit with 0 when running with NODE_OPTIONS #1676 - to be released in Cypress 3.3.0