WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point - selenium

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org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at
point (931, 23). Other element would receive the click:
Running selenium tests using Jenkins in headless browser
In following environment
OS- CentOS 6 and Xvfb installed in same machine
Xvfb screen resolution - Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 &
Driver - Firefox driver
Selenium webdriver version - 2.52.0
The same test case working fine in windows os with firefox

Try this. Install Xvfb plugin on Jenkins.
After that install Xvfb in "Global Tool Configuration"
Then under your project configuration, setup xvfb
Try Using resolution given in image
Now run your build :)

This is the reason it is important to test on different browsers and on different platforms. Sometimes what works on one browser/os does not work on the same browser but a different platform.
I would update your setup so that you make a screenshot when you run into this type (and most other types) of error. In my experience this is the single best thing you can do to reduce the time spent to debug these issues.
In my setup I do the following:
Create a screenshot
Capture the coordinates from the Selenium error message
Use an image manipulation program to automatically create a red dot where the click happened
Usually I just have to take one look at such an image to see exactly what is happening.

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Selenium WDS executeScript()

I have a strange problem, which I'm unable to solve for sometime. I have a selenium WDS for Firefox browser. I tried to execute the code in JMeter UI, everything works fine. But when I try to execute the same in a server (using XVFB driver), I get the error:
rm="sun.org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: Can&apos;t find method org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.executeScript(string,org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement). (<Unknown source>#17) in <Unknown source> at line number 17"
All the required drivers are the same as the one I locally try. Yet, I get the error only when I run in the server but not locally. Please help
Most probably you have different versions of either WebDriver Sampler or dependency libraries, I don't see any other ways for the same script to work on one machine and don't work on another.
Install the same version of JMeter onto both machines (use JMeter 3.2 or later, whatever is available at JMeter Downloads Page)
Install latest version of the WebDriver Sampler plugin using JMeter Plugins Manager
Your test should now be running fine.

Unable to run WebDriverIo tutorial

I'm trying to follow the WebDriverIo tutorial at http://webdriver.io/guide.html .
After setting up the Selenium server, when I try executing the test node script (step 7 in the tutorial), selenium warns me of some errors (see screenshot for full log), and I don't get any output returned.
Steps to reproduce:
I start the Selenium server
When I try running the node script, this happens (clock to zoom):
At this point a Firefox window opens automatically, and remains blank.
I'm running Firefox v52 and Selenium 3.0.1. I downloaded Geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Any obvious thing that I'm missing? I'm very new to Selenium and browser automation, forgive the generic input :)
If you have been here to get your Windows release of gecko driver : https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases, you may have miss this message :
"IMPORTANT: If you use geckodriver with Selenium, you must upgrade to
Selenium 3.3 since this release aligns HTTP responses with the
WebDriver standard."
(I can see you are in v3.0.1).

How can I run Chrome headless from protractor WITHOUT using a Selenium server

I have Chrome working headless via a Selenium server by running xvfb bound to DISPLAY:10 and then running Selenium with a DISPLAY=:10 webdriver-manager start. So that's all fine.
I also have Chromedriver running directly from protractor by specifying directConnect: true in my protractor.conf.
What I'd like to do is a combination of the two, ie. run chromedriver directly (NO SELENIUM!), but somehow instruct it to run headless on DISPLAY :10.
In terms of topology, everything is run on the developer's PC. There are no servers involved. In a comment below, I mention a node server: this is being used to launch protractor instead of the more usual launching from the command line. I want protractor to be running on DISPLAY:0 so I can see its output, test failures etc. When it spawns chrome using chromedriver, I want chrome to be running on DISPLAY:10. My reason for doing this is that I want the chrome window to be bigger than my physical screen. See How can I screenshot the full height of a mobile form factor? for background.
I'm guessing the topology is like this:
Box A: xvfb, DISPLAY=:10, Selenium Server, chromedriver
Box B: DISPLAY=:0, node, protractor (directConnect: true), chromedriver
Box C: test runner.
I don't know how else it could be laid out, given that DISPLAY is an environment variable, not a parameter to be passed.
In which case, assuming you don't want a separate xvfb installed on Box B, and A is reachable (plus a decent connection) from B, the solution is simply to set:
DISPLAY=boxAHost:10
on Box B.
If A isn't reachable from B, it might be simplest to just duplicate the xvfb setup on both A and B, and have DISPLAY=:10 on both.
I had a "Doh!!!" moment of zen and the whole thing is much easier that I thought it would be.
I had conflated the stdout of node/protractor (which I want on my screen) with the X display of chrome (which I want headless on DISPLAY:10). Of course they are totally different!!!!
Simply prefixing protractor with DISPLAY=:10 eg.
DISPLAY=:10 protractor /installation_test/conf-c-direct-noserver.js
or, in my case since I'm running a node server which in turn spawns protractor, ...
DISPLAY=:10 npm start
So protractor runs in my terminal and I can watch stdout, whereas the DISPLAY=:10 is inherited down through the call layers and is eventually seen and understood by Chrome.

How to run the selenium code on linux using firefox without GUI?

I had redhat Linux server command line but there is no GUI for that and I need to run selenium code on this server with firefox. As I am new to selenium so I am not sure whether it will work or not.
For achieving this I had install Firefox on my Redhat linux machine successfully but not able to trigger that as it is showing no display found.
Is there any other way to achieve this for headless browsing, where virtually a firefox will be opened and selenium code can be executed without GUI. Is it possible to do??
You can use HtmlUnitDriver of selenium to use headless browsing but it will not open firefox and may be not loading all content to it's cache as same as firefox
Refer Below:-
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/HtmlUnitDriver
Another thing you can use is Phantomjs with selenium Webdriver. This is most using pattern by industries for headless browsing
Refer below:-
http://www.guru99.com/selenium-with-htmlunit-driver-phantomjs.html
Yes you can trigger selenium file using command line
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/testng/testng_executing_tests.htm
Bash file is running fine in windows for testng but it is not working in linux/mac
Now if still your firefox is not opening then it is basically issue of some setting with your OS with firefox
Refer that too :-
https://serverfault.com/questions/279036/open-terminal-via-ssh-run-firefox-display-not-found
May be you have problem with some permission in red hat
Hope it will help you :)

Jenkins with Xvfb and Selenium - Firefox started but nothing executed

I have a problem with Selenium under Jenkins 1.446 together with Xvfb: It looks like firefox is started correctly because I let my failing tests record screenshots. These screenshots all show the same failing page, which in my case is the starting page where the tests should begin. So I gues the selenium WebDriver commands do not arrive. What could be the reason? By the way, the tests are running perfectly on my local machine.
I'm using Firefox 9.0.1 with no specific test profile and no AddOns, Ubuntu 10.04, Senlenium 2.16.1
Log entry: com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: Timed out waiting for action to finish
Thanks!
EDIT: Issue seems to be fixed by a system reboot ...
I experienced a very similar issue with FF9.0.1 and Selenium 2.16.1 running through JUnit launched by Maven SureFire plugin run by Jenkins on a WinXP node.
2.17.0 fixed the issue for me. Try updating to the latest Selenium.
Through RDP, I was able to watch the tests running. The tests appeared to be partially blocked by a prompt from Firefox asking about collecting anonymous usage statistics. Manually answering the prompt would allow the test to continue but because Selenium creates a new profile each time by default, the prompt would return on the next browser launch. Running the tests locally with a pre-configured FF profile allowed me to persist that the prompt had been answered. This isn't possible on my XP node because the tests are running as 'System'.
Selenium/WebDriver would normally take care of this for you by marking the prompt as already answered in a temporary FF profile configuration but a bug was causing the value to be set to the wrong value. You can inject a profile configuration to the Selenium FirefoxDriver driver to pragmatically configure stuff like this prompt but the bug appeared to prevent this as well. This has been resolved in Selenium 2.17.0 (http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/java/CHANGELOG see 2.17.0 WebDriver bug fixes).