Protractor: "session not created exception from tab crashed"

[chocochik92]

I probably need to bring this up to Selenium also but I thought I'd ask here as well. I'm getting this error:

SessionNotCreatedError: session not created exception from timeout: Timed out receiving message from renderer: 600.000

I am running protractor tests on Windows 8 Chrome. What happens is that a Chrome tab will open but won't load the url, and will open C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe shell window. Then nothing else happens and the test times out. Which makes sense that I get a timeout error. But I'm not sure why it isn't loading the website in the first place.

When I close the chrome tab I then get this message:

SessionNotCreatedError: session not created exception from tab crashed`

I am up to date on both selenium standalone and chromedriver. The only thing I can think of is that Chrome was recently updated to 46.0.2490.71, but I don't have any problems on Windows 7 with this same version.

Here's the full log:

/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:113
var template = new Error(this.message);
             ^
SessionNotCreatedError: session not created exception 
from tab crashed
(Session info: chrome=46.0.2490.71)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.16.333243     (0bfa1d3575fc1044244f21ddb82bf870944ef961),platform=Windows NT 6.3 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 30.24 seconds
Build info: version: '2.47.1', revision: '411b314', time: '2015-07-30 03:03:16'
System info: host: 'Win8Test', ip: '192.168.1.185', os.name: 'Windows 8.1', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.3', java.version: '1.8.0_45'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
at new bot.Error     (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:113:18)
at Object.bot.response.checkResponse (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/response.js:106:9)
at /Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:158:24
at [object Object].promise.ControlFlow.runInFrame_ (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1877:20)
at [object Object].promise.Callback_.goog.defineClass.notify (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:2464:25)
at [object Object].promise.Promise.notify_ (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:563:12)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Object.goog.array.forEach (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/array/array.js:203:43)
at [object Object].promise.Promise.notifyAll_ (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:552:16)
at goog.async.run.processWorkQueue (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/async/run.js:125:21)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.acquireSession_ (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:155:22)
at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.createSession (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:129:30)
at [object Object].Builder.build (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/builder.js:416:22)
at [object Object].DriverProvider.getNewDriver (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/lib/driverProviders/driverProvider.js:38:7)
at [object Object].Runner.createBrowser (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:180:37)
at /Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:256:21
at _fulfilled (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:797:54)
at self.promiseDispatch.done (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:826:30)
at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:759:13)
at /Users/awilliamson/projects/chewie/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:525:49
[launcher] Process exited with error code 1`

config.js

exports.config = {
  multiCapabilities: [
    {
      'browserName': 'chrome',
      seleniumAddress: 'http://192.168.1.136:4444/wd/hub' // windows 7
    },
    {
      'browserName': 'chrome',
      seleniumAddress: 'http://192.168.1.185:4444/wd/hub' // windows 8
    },
  ],
  framework: 'jasmine2',
  suites: {...},
  jasmineNodeOpts: {
    showColors: true,
    defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
  },
  params: {
    url: ...
  }
},
onPrepare: function () {
  global.dvr = browser.driver;
  global.siteUrl = browser.params.url;
  global.isAngularSite = function (flag) {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = !flag;
  };
  dvr.manage().window().setPosition(0, 0);
  dvr.manage().window().setSize(1024, 768);
  browser.getCapabilities().then(function (cap) {
    browser.browserName = cap.caps_.browserName;
  });
  ...
}

[sjelin]

Can I see your config file?

[JulienBier]

Same issue there.
It was working with Chrome 45 but not with Chrome 46 (on Windows 8.1).

[chocochik92]

@sjelin I added my config file
also i'm using "jasmine": "^2.3.2" and "protractor": "^2.5.1",

[sjelin]

@chocochik92 Could you run the following in node:

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
    usingServer('http://192.168.1.185:4444/wd/hub').
    withCapabilities({
      'browserName': 'chrome',
    }).build();

driver.get('http://www.google.com');

driver.quit();

This should test selenium directly. If it works, it will open Google and then quit.

[chocochik92]

@sjelin still the same problem

[sjelin]

Ok, then it's definitely a problem with WebDriver and not with protractor.

[chocochik92]

I ended up solving this issue by upgrading to Chromedriver 2.19

[johanbove]

Took me a while to find this out. Thanks for posting!

Explanation for people who need to know how to upgrade to ChromeDriver: check the file (on Windows) and set the "chromedriver" property of the "config.json" file:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\webdriver-manager\config.json

{
  "webdriverVersions": {
    "selenium": "2.46.0",
    "chromedriver": "2.20",
    "iedriver": "2.46.0",
    "chromedriver-nw": "0.12.2"
  }
}