Error: spawn UNKNOWN

[fid37is]

Current behavior

Can't run npx cypress open command. I keep getting this Error: spawn UNKNOWN.

Desired behavior

No response

Test code to reproduce

\cypress-tau-course>npx cypress open
An unexpected error occurred while verifying the Cypress executable.

Please search Cypress documentation for possible solutions:

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Check if there is a GitHub issue describing this crash:

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Consider opening a new issue.

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Error: spawn UNKNOWN

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Platform: win32 (10.0.22621)
Cypress Version: 6.6.0

C:\Users\agbap\cypress-tau-course>

Cypress Version

6.6.0

Node version

latest

Operating System

win 11

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[jennifer-shehane]

@fid37is Are you sure you’re using Cypress 6.6.0? Because this is an extremely old version. Please try updating to our latest version. We don’t patch fixes back to this version.

[MikeMcC399]

@fid37is

• Another user reported a similar issue and mentioned that Windows Group Policy was blocking the execution of Cypress (Error spawn UNKNOWN during #20842 (comment)). You might like to investigate if that applies to your machine and if you need to get Cypress whitelisted.
• You will probably get the same error message if you try to execute npx cypress verify
• It looks like you are using https://github.com/filiphric/cypress-tau-course. Although this uses a legacy version "cypress": "^6.6.0" it will normally start.
• To fill in the details, what version of Node.js is displayed when you execute node --version?
• Although training courses using legacy Cypress versions (9.x and earlier) can still teach you fundamentals. You might want to look for courses based on the current version (13.x) or a minimum of 10.x.

[MikeMcC399]

@fid37is

Were you able to make any progress based on the previous comments?

[cypress-app-bot]

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[cypress-app-bot]

This issue has been closed due to inactivity.