Selenium Server on startup - selenium

I'm using Selenium RC in a Ubuntu system.
I want to automate the tests, and I need to start Selenium-server.jar on startup of the machine.
I created seleniumServer.conf in /ect/init/ with:
start on startup
start on runlevel 3
respawn
exec xvfb-run java -jar /home/condde/selenium-server-1.0.3/selenium-server.jar -port 4444
When I reboot the machine, it works fine, the process is running.
But when I execute a test, the result is:
PHPUnit_Framework_Exception: Could not connect to the Selenium RC server.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

I have the same problem, my process can not connect the selenium server sometimes. After dig into debug log and selenium source code, I found that's because java's SecureRandom hangs if /dev/random hangs when selenium try generate random number. So I replace /dev/random with /dev/urandom, then selenium server works fine:
sudo mv /dev/random /dev/random.real
sudo ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
Or you can modify $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security file and changing the property:
securerandom.source=file:/dev/random
to:
securerandom.source=file:/dev/urandom
Maybe it works, but not for me.

Use -debug to start Selenium with debug log to see if any error.
java -jar selenium-server.jar -debug > /var/log/selenium-server.log 2>&1

I did this on ubuntu 14 using npm.
First, install the selenium-standalone via npm.
sudo npm install selenium-standalone -g
sudo selenium-standalone install
Then create a symbolic link in /etc/init.d, and configure it to run.
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/selenium-standalone /etc/init.d/
sudo update-rc.d selenium-standalone defaults

Another very simple and good solution is to install selenium via docker. I have used the chrome image and it's easy as:
sudo docker run -d -p 4444:4444 selenium/standalone-chrome
The -d option makes is a daemon that will be restarted every time you start your computer. The -p option forwards the webdriver port (4444) from the docker instance to the host.
Well, it's not phantomjs, but I like chrome better anyway. There is also a firefox image! Checkout https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium for more info.

I would start the selenium server process with -log parameter to get info from the process first and all and see if it actually get any kind of connections, errors etc..
A few ideas to troubleshoot:
Do you get any response if you enter http://localhost:4444
It should render a 403 error by the Jetty engine.
If this does not work I would try with your actual IP:4444, that might indicate problem with localhost variable, proxy settings etc..
Could the firewall settings be blocking the the 4444 port? Maybe the Selenium Server process is not allowed to start the browser.

Related

Unable to open X display when trying to run google-chrome on Centos (Rhel 7.5)

I need to run Google Chrome remotely on a virtual machine using SSH. I do not want xforwarding - I want to utilize the GPU available on the vm. When I try running google-chrome I get following error:
[19615:19615:0219/152933.751028:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1512)] Unable to open X display.
I've tried to setting my DISPLAY env value to various values:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
export DISPLAY=:0.0
I've also tried replacing 0.0 in abowe examples with different values.
I have ForwardX11 no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
I tried setting up target like this:
systemctl isolate multi-user.target
When I try to run sudo lshw -C display i get folowing output:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Hyper-V virtual VGA
vendor: Microsoft Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci#0000:00:08.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master rom
configuration: driver=hyperv_fb latency=0
resources: irq:11 memory:f8000000-fbffffff
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GM204GL [Tesla M60]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 1
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:f0-ef iomemory:f0-ef memory:41000000-41ffffff memory:fe0000000-fefffffff memory:ff0000000-ff1ffffff
I've tried to update my gpu drivers by:
wget https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/tesla/375.66/nvidia-diag-driver-local-repo-rhel7-375.66-1.x86_64.rpm
yum -y install nvidia-diag-driver-local-repo-rhel7-375.66-1.x86_64.rpm
But after that I still see UNCLIMED next to my NVIDIA gpu.
Aby ideas?
You can try with Xvfb. it does not require additional hardware.
Install Xvfb if you didn't install it yet and do the following steps.
sudo apt-get install -y xvfb
Dependencies to make "headless" chrome/selenium work:
sudo apt-get -y install xorg xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf
sudo apt-get -y install dbus-x11 xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable
Optional but nifty: For capturing screenshots of Xvfb display:
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick x11-apps
Make sure that Xvfb starts every time the box/vm is booted:
Xvfb -ac :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 &
export DISPLAY=:99
Run Google Chrome
google-chrome
Okay guys. I found my problem after 2 hours of going crazy. My box was configured correctly. What you can NOT do, is ssh from one box, to another box, to this box and expect X11 forwarding to play nicely. Without tearing apart the entire network, I found that if I shelled over from the MAIN box to this box ( no double or triple ssh'ing) chrome comes right up as a regular user using CLI. So it was a matter of multiple shells from multiple boxes that made the display say it was set to NOTHING! Setting the display manually only complicates the problems. Once I shelled directly over to this box from the main outside box, my display was set to 10:0, which is first instance in my configuration. Don't make this mistake, you will waste valuable time.
FWIW, I ran into this when using SSH to log into a Selenium chrome node in a Docker compose stack. Chrome would launch if I invoked it as root with sudo -u seluser google-chrome, but not if I logged in as seluser. The trick turned out to be that root had DISPLAY set to :99:0, and seluser didn't have it set at all. If I set it explicitly (either from a seluser shell or from the docker compose exec command line) it worked.
$ docker-compose exec -u seluser \
selenium-chrome \ # or whatever your service is called
/bin/bash
seluser#c02cda62b751:/$ export DISPLAY=:99:0
seluser#c02cda62b751:/$ google-chrome http://app.test:3000/home
or
$ docker-compose exec -u seluser -e DISPLAY=:99:0 \
selenium-chrome \
google-chrome http://app.test:3000/home
That :99.0 is undocumented, though, so if this isn't working, you might try checking root's DISPLAY value with:
docker-compose exec -u root selenium-chrome bash -c 'echo "${DISPLAY}"'
I faced the same issue with WSL and Ubuntu. I have unininstalled/Reset the ubuntu. After that, I have executed the below command
wsl --set-default-version 2
then I installed again the Ubuntu, I didn't get --no-sandbox issue or any issue.
Hope this will use for someone.

Stop Selenium 3.0.1 using command line

I tryied command from older versions, but it dont seems to work.
curl "http://localhost:5555/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer"
'Old' command is not working because it's part of selenium RC which is not included in selenium 3.
You should now start your nodes with -servlet org.openqa.grid.web.servlet.LifecycleServlet included, and than you can shut it down with http://yourNodeIP:port/extra/LifecycleServlet?action=shutdown
I reported this issue few months ago and it's solved so you can check it out for more details here. https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/2982
If you are on linux you can kill the process running on that port by
fuser -k 5555/tcp
or netstat -plten |grep java you will get the PID of seleniumserver process.
kill -9 PID.
Also try hitting the lifecycle of selenium grid2
http://yourHubIP:port/lifecycle-manager?action=shutdown
CTRL+c from your terminal also would help.
let me know if you are looking for anything else
Assuming you are running it on *nix and the standalone server is listening on the default port (4444)... you need to:
find the PID of the process that is bound to port 4444 (use lsof command)
send that process a SIGTERM to gracefully shutdown (use the kill command)
you can achieve this with the following one-liner:
$ lsof -t -i :4444 | xargs kill

Running headless firefox Xvfb with Jenkins to run selenium tests

I face with Error: no display specified error when running play framework tests in Jenkins at FreeBSD server.
So every time I face with timeout
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox
Jenkins has:
1) Xvfb plugin installed
2) Play Framework installed
Tests are written using selenide library and selenide module for play framework.
Xvfb configured and enabled in job configuration.
Job console output is:
Checking out Revision 3f485bd2e3dbcfa058fc19f89ab18020e36707d8 (origin/trunk)
...
Xvfb starting$ /usr/local/bin//Xvfb :1 -screen 0 -fbdir /usr/local/jenkins/xvfb-9-786185694297443042.fbdir
...
Command detected: clean
Command detected: deps --sync
Command detected: precompile
Command detected: auto-test
[YalsTests] $ /srv/java/play/play clean
...
~ using java version "1.8.0_72"
[YalsTests] $ /srv/java/play/play auto-test
~ 14 tests to run:
~
~ selenium/front/CorrectInput... org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output:
Error: no display specified
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:113)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.startClient(FirefoxDriver.java:271)
Job configuration:
[X] Start Xvfb before the build, and shut it down after.
Xvfb specific display name 1
Xvfb display name offset 0
Invoke Play Framework
Command set Play 1.x
Goals
Clean project [clean]
Custom parameter
Custom command deps --sync
Precompile all Java sources and templates [precompile]
Automatically run all application tests [auto-test]
The selenium tasks needs to know the DISPLAY that it shall connect to.
You can set it e.g. as an environment variable (don't forget to export it, if you do that in .profile)
export DISPLAY=:10
This is for bash, other shells might need a 2 step process:
DISPLAY=:10
export DISPLAY
You can also specify the variable at the command line before the command:
DISPLAY=:10 java -jar mySelenium.jar
You could avoid all these issues by using Selenoid project which starts headless browsers in parallel in Docker containers. Container images are created by considering compatible version of webdriver and browser. They also include fonts, flashplayer and so on. Just choose one of already existing images and run your tests. No need to install Java to run Selenium tests.
I tend to supply this if I'm running my tests via Jenkins:
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1920x1080x16" mvn clean install...
One thing that has tripped me up in the past is that while xvfb-run will create a virtual display, it can really screw up your screenshots and web interactions if it isn't sized correctly, so it's usually advisable to supply a resolution size which will suitably display your browser.

Docker: Unable to view running container despite successful demo example

When I run the example from the Docker doc in the "Viewing our web application container" section, i.e.,
docker run -d -P training/webapp python app.py
...I'm able to view the "Hello World" output in a browser. Success. This seems to indicate that the network I'm on may not be the problem.
Now I'm trying to view a container that runs a webdriver suite (test automation of a browser). Based on the output in docker logs -f, the webdriver suite runs to completion. But when I try to point a browser at the webdriver container (which is running the browser), I get a error saying:
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Here are the steps I'm following:
Start webdriver container with this command
docker run -d -p 8080:5000 "/bin/bash" "-c" "/dir1/dir2/filename.sh $PARAMETER1 $PARAMETER2"
point a browser to:
http://subdomain.mydomain.com:5000
Docker output:
user#server$ docker ps -l
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
2fa83fc0401a 65525ab9ad78 "/bin/bash -c '/opt/y" 55 minutes ago Up 55 minutes 2222/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->5000/tcp
user#server$ docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' 2fa83fc0401a
111.22.33.4444
Other info:
Server config: Ubuntu 14.04
Docker version: 1.8.1, build d12ea79
I've reviewed the following questions but I'm not running on a VM and I'm not running NodeJS.
Unable to view rails app running in docker container from browser
Docker: Unable to specify port for a running container
Does anyone have suggestions on how I might troubleshoot this problem? Any assistance gratefully accepted.
:) jay
Update 1:
Based on the NodeJS question noted above, I'm thinking that I'm not setting a port correctly in the Dockerfile. Maybe this is as simple as setting the correct port for Selenium?
Update 2: as #hunter noted, I had the ports in the wrong order, but switching the ports does not resolve the problem. I think the bigger problem is that I was assigning the wrong port. So, I changed docker run -d -p 8080:5000 to docker run -d -P. When I did that, I got the following output:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS
f375251b61d7 65525ab9ad78 "/bin/bash -c '/opt/y" About an hour ago Up About an hour 0.0.0.0:33073->2222/tcp
I then pointed the browser to that port: http://subdomain.mydomain.com:33073
But I still get the same error: ERR CONNECTION REFUSED
I think you're using the wrong port - the external port is 8080 not 5000.

xvfb-run hanging on server

On our build server (bamboo launched) we are wanting to do selenium tests, to do this we are running xvfb-run, this works on our local servers which are all of the same type.
If I log on to the build server and run:
xvfb-run echo 'i'
I get the error:
xvfb-run: error: Xvfb failed to start
I have tried running like this:
xvfb-run -a echo 'i'
This time it just hangs and never finishes, any ideas on things I can try?
Thanks
Run following commands:
sudo nohup Xvfb :40 -ac &
export DISPLAY=:40
Since it works locally, I suspect a server or permissions issue is going on. Perhaps your user can't open up a lock file in /tmp ? Try to get more info about the problem by running:
xvfb-run -e /dev/stdout [mycommand]