Chromedriver works manually but fails when ran fro

I have a Jenkins slave node setup with LinuxMint. So we can do some browser testing on a Linux box in Chrome and Firefox.

I have the latest Chromedriver installed where the test can run it and when I go into /var/jenkins/workspace/<project name>/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework manually and do my run npm <test name> the tests launch the chromedriver and run successfully.

When I go into Jenkins and run my test chromedriver is failing with the following and I am not sure where to go with this.:

Using ChromeDriver directly... [launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver /var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:108 var template = new Error(this.message); ^ UnknownError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.21.371461 (633e689b520b25f3e264a2ede6b74ccc23cb636a),platform=Linux 3.19.0-32-generic x86_64) at new bot.Error (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:108:18) at Object.bot.response.checkResponse (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/response.js:109:9) at /var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:160:24 at promise.ControlFlow.runInFrame_ (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/../webdriver/promise.js:1857:20) at goog.defineClass.notify (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/../webdriver/promise.js:2448:25) at promise.Promise.notify_ (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/../webdriver/promise.js:564:12) at Array.forEach (native) at promise.Promise.notifyAll_ (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/../webdriver/promise.js:553:15) at goog.async.run.processWorkQueue (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/async/run.js:130:15) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7) From: Task: WebDriver.createSession() at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.acquireSession_ (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:157:22) at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.createSession (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:131:30) at new Driver (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:810:36) at DirectDriverProvider.getNewDriver (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/protractor/lib/driverProviders/direct.js:68:16) at Runner.createBrowser (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:182:37) at /var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:263:21 at _fulfilled (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/q/q.js:797:54) at self.promiseDispatch.done (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/q/q.js:826:30) at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/q/q.js:759:13) at /var/jenkins/workspace/QA-E2E-Linux/TestAutomation/SeleniumFramework/node_modules/q/q.js:525:49 [launcher] Process exited with error code 1

回答1:

First Solution:

Have you java 8 installed? If yes, uninstall it and install java 7.

Second Solution:

Downgrade protractor to v1.8.0

More informations: https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/1905

@edit

I found a similar topic as your, the same error in jenkins - linux:

In you jenkins settings add a global property

key : DISPLAY
value:0:0

On your server start Xvfb in the background:

Xvfb :0 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x24 &

link: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9

回答2:

So I was connecting to the slaves from the Jenkins master via SSH. This wasn't ever going to launch a browser session. I switched over to the Java Web Start option, and it launched the browser just fine.