Codeception: Updating codeception to latest version and running the test I get this exeception.[Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\SessionNotCreatedException] Unable to create new service: GeckoDriverService

[kjnanda]

What are you trying to achieve?

I am trying to run the test on Chrome and Firefox browser using selenium standalone server.

What do you get instead?

This is the output from my console.

[Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\SessionNotCreatedException] Unable to create new service: GeckoDriverService
Build info: version: '3.6.0', revision: '6fbf3ec767', time: '2017-09-27T16:15:40.131Z'
System info: host: 'krupa.local', ip: '192.168.0.100', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.6', java.version: '1.8.0_111'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown  

Provide test source code if related
This is my Sample cept file -

<?php
    $I = new AcceptanceTester($scenario);
    $I->wantTo('perform actions and see result');
    $I->amOnPage('/');
    $I->wait(10);
?>

Details

• Codeception version: 2.3.6
• PHP Version: 5.6.3
• Operating System: Mac OSx
• Installation type: Composer
• List of installed packages (composer show)

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• Suite configuration:

# paste suite config here
class_name: AcceptanceTester
modules:
    enabled:
        - \Helper\Acceptance
        - WPWebDriver
    config:
        WPWebDriver:
            browser: 'firefox'
            url: 'http://demo.rtmedia.io/'
            adminUsername: ''
            adminPassword: ''
            adminPath: '/wp-admin'

NOTE : Same issue happens with chrome driver.

Chrome Driver version - 2.33
Gecko Driver version - 0.18

[Naktibalda]

Are you passing paths to drivers as parameters to selenium.jar ?

[kjnanda]

This is how I run my test -
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=chromdriver -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.6.0.jar

[Naktibalda]

chromdriver should be a correct absolute or relative path to the driver file.

[kjnanda]

I have set both divers in $PATH.
With older version I used to run the same and it was working fine. I am wondering that why it is not working for me now! 🤔

M I missing anything here?

[Naktibalda]

It would be better to ask Selenium community.

[kjnanda]

Yeah, I have posted my query over there also.
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/4818

[DavertMik]

I asked Selenium community. Looks like this issue is that facebook/php-webdriver was not updated to handle last changes in WebDriver protocol :(
There is nothing we can do about it

[Naktibalda]

@kjnanda use Selenium 3.5 or even 3.4 until https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver/issues/469 is implemented.

There is a ticket https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver/issues/479 which says that php-webdriver is incompatible with Selenium 3.5, but I think that it isn't true.

[dlgoodchild]

@Naktibalda happy to be proven wrong. Would very much like to be. Anyway, I opted to use the 3.6 selemium standalone container with the python bindings, and I created basic tests in PHP (php-webdriver = not working), node.js (WebDriverJS = working mostly, but not actions), python (Python Bindings = working completely), ruby (Ruby Bindings = working completely).

[torsten-pohl]

I am using the recent Codeception 2.3.6 with the recent Selenium Standalone Server 3.6.0 and the recent ChromeDriver 2.33 by setting the ChromeDriver path explicitly in the corresponding parameter when starting Selenium Standalone Server, e.g.

java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=./chromedriver.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.6.0.jar

As @Naktibalda said, try to set the correct absolute or relative path to the ChromeDriver file.

[dianaolaru]

I'm having the same problmem:
[Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\SessionNotCreatedException] Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService Build info: version: '3.6.0', revision: '6fbf3ec767', time: '2017-09-27T16:15:40.131Z' System info: host: 'diana-Altex', ip: '127.0.1.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-97-generic', java.version: '1.8.0_144' Driver info: driver.version: unknown

I tried to run all the selenium versions from 3.4 to 3.5.3 and I get the same error. If I try on firefox I get the same error. And If I try with 3.3 selenium version I get the error:
[Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnknownServerException] Unable to find a free port

I'm using ubuntu, so I think I don't need to set the path... I don't know what to do anymore... please help

[kjnanda]

I am still facing the same problem. 😞 @dianaolaru

[DavertMik]

@dianaolaru as an option you could try to run dockerized Selenium. I'm pretty sure it will work for you if you download version <= 3.6.

On Ubuntu that helps for me:

docker run --net=host selenium/standalone-chrome

[dianaolaru]

thank you @DavertMik I'm afraid I crushed it even more... I tried to dockarize selenium (using this steps: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dockerized-execution-setup-selenium-test-vishal-mishra) , but now, when I try to run a test, the browser is not opening and it doesn't seem to do anything (it's runnig so slowly.. + my processor is going crazy). I finnaly got this error:
[Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnknownServerException] unknown error: $ is not defined

And when I run docker run --net=host selenium/standalone-chrome
The last info is this:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.BindException: Address already in use at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.SeleniumServer.boot(SeleniumServer.java:182) at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3$1.launch(GridLauncherV3.java:238) at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.main(GridLauncherV3.java:99) Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.ServerConnector.open(ServerConnector.java:298) at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.AbstractNetworkConnector.doStart(AbstractNetworkConnector.java:80) at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.ServerConnector.doStart(ServerConnector.java:236) at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.Server.doStart(Server.java:431) at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.SeleniumServer.boot(SeleniumServer.java:180) ... 2 more

I have no idea what I did :))

[dianaolaru]

I solved the problem! Apparently, I modified some stuff into /etc/hosts/ and my first line was:
128.0.0.1 localhost
I modified it with 127.0.0.1 localhost
(I also deleted the old ChromeDriver from /usr/local/bin/ and reinstalled the last update of the ChromeDriver but I'm not sure this influenced it very much)
Now it works!

• I'm using last version of codeception (2.3.6) - installed with composer (also tupdated) and
  selenium 3.6.0 started with this command:
  java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.6.0.jar

@kjnanda If you run on Windows, make sure you have your paths to Chromedriver added to your PATH list

[kjnanda]

@dianaolaru This is the output of my /etc/host

I keep my driver files in /user/local/bin only. Yet I am not able to run the script on my local browser. 🤔

[dianaolaru]

@kjnanda you are using Linux also?
Try to modify your localhost line with : 127.0.0.1 localhost
you have 1270 instead of 127 (maybe it will work)

Also you can erase your Chromedriver and use these commands to install it again:
wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.33/chromedriver_linux64.zip -P ~/
unzip ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/
rm ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv -f ~/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

[yuvraj993]

phpunit -c MagiumMagentoExample/tests/phpunit.xml.dist

[1) MyTests\Admin\LoginTest::testLogin
Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService
Build info: version: '3.6.0', revision: '6fbf3ec767', time: '2017-09-27T16:15:40.131Z'
System info: host: 'Unknown', ip: 'Unknown', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-97-generic', java.version: '9.0.1'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
]
Please help me on this

[dianaolaru]

"host: 'Unknown', ip: 'Unknown" - It seems like the system does not know your host and your ip.

Did you set your host? In /etc/hosts you should have:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 your-Name

[manivoolla]

Adding below entry in my hosts file resolved this issue for me. Thanks @dianaolaru
127.0.0.1 localhost

[uhi67]

I had a similar issue and in my case the solution was:
I had this two line in my hosts file:

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

I deleted the second, and problem solved.