ERROR: dalek-driver-chrome: Could not launch Chromedriver

[tim3trick]

Tests starts up sucessfully but fails (way before done):

$ dalek test/simple.js -b chrome
Running tests
Running Browser: Google Chrome
OS: Linux 3.11.0-17-generic x86_64
Browser Version: 33.0.1750.149

RUNNING TEST - "Can login"
▶ OPEN http://...
✔ EXISTS Login form exists.
✔ EXISTS Login button exists.
▶ TYPE #Benutzername
▶ TYPE #Passwort

ERROR: dalek-driver-chrome: Could not launch Chromedriver

[asciidisco]

Hmm,
hard to debug without seeing the code that is causing this. Would you mind posting it or a reduced test case behaving the same? Thanks.

[mezz]

Getting the same issue on OS X.

Running tests
Running Browser: Google Chrome
OS: Mac OS X 10.9.4 x86_64
Browser Version: 36.0.1985.143

>> ERROR: dalek-driver-chrome: Could not launch Chromedriver

edit: reinstalled node, dalek, dalek-browser-chrome, restarted, and the problem went away.

[mezz]

I have the problem again, and gathered some more information:

first time _catchDriverLogs is called, dataStr is "Starting ChromeDriver (v2.9.248307) on port 9002"
timeout is created and cleared right away

second time, dataStr is "Port not available. Exiting..."
timeout is created again and triggers the error message "dalek-driver-chrome: Could not launch Chromedriver"

I'll see if I can find out more about the underlying error.

[mezz]

Turns out a chromedriver instance started by dalek was never closed and was still running.

killall chromedriver on the command line fixed the issue.

[asciidisco]

That really helps, only a few lines of code can cause this. Will look into it again.