HTML-to-xlsx error - "spawn Unknown system error -86 Error"

[preineck]

Hi everyone.
This is so odd. I've just been running an HTML-to-xlsx report over and over (in studio) and it was working, when suddenly it started throwing this error:

2021-08-18T21:34:05.513Z - warn: Error when processing render request 1 Error while executing html-to-xlsx recipe. spawn Unknown system error -86 Error: Error while executing html-to-xlsx recipe. spawn Unknown system error -86
    at module.exports (/Users/johnreineck/jsreportapp/node_modules/jsreport-core/lib/util/createError.js:11:13)
    at Reporter.createError (/Users/johnreineck/jsreportapp/node_modules/jsreport-core/lib/reporter.js:328:12)
    at Object.execute (/Users/johnreineck/jsreportapp/node_modules/jsreport-html-to-xlsx/lib/recipe.js:159:20)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:189:7)
caused by: Error: spawn Unknown system error -86
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:313:11)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:503:9)
    at Object.exports.execFile (child_process.js:213:15)
    at Promise (/Users/johnreineck/jsreportapp/node_modules/phantom-page-eval/lib/eval.js:88:34)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at evaluate (/Users/johnreineck/jsreportapp/node_modules/phantom-page-eval/lib/eval.js:83:14)
    at <anonymous>
2021-08-18T21:34:05.513Z - warn: Error during processing request at http://localhost:5488/api/report/caseReporting(clone)

Switching over to HTML it's fine but I do need the to-xlsx version for a one formula.

I haven't thought of many things to try beyond killing the jsreport process and restarting, then opening studio in another tab.

Any ideas? Thank you

[jan_blaha]

It seems to have an issue starting the phantomjs process. Don't have an idea why it should be hanging suddenly.
Does it fail also for a simple "hello world" template?

Any reason to use the phantomjs? The phantomjs project is archived and using chrome instead is recommended.

[preineck]

I didn't even know I had that option - that fixed it. Thank you!