failing on protractor test/protractor-conf.js

[mzogz]

Hello -

So I'm new to development in general and the setup for this was a trip. Looked like I got it running - I could use [npm start] and [npm test] but [npm run protractor] fails as shown.

I have an updated chrome, and the server and Karma will both run correctly (no visible errors and Karma is green).

I'm running this in Cygwin on 64-bit Windows 8.

The debug log will follow.

Here are my commands and the resulting script:

$ npm run protractor

angular-phonecat@0.0.0 preprotractor C:\angular-phonecat
npm run update-webdriver

angular-phonecat@0.0.0 preupdate-webdriver C:\angular-phonecat
npm install

angular-phonecat@0.0.0 postinstall C:\angular-phonecat
bower install

angular-phonecat@0.0.0 update-webdriver C:\angular-phonecat
webdriver-manager update

selenium standalone is up to date.
chromedriver is up to date.

angular-phonecat@0.0.0 protractor C:\angular-phonecat
protractor test/protractor-conf.js

---

PID: 12540 (capability: chrome #1)

Using ChromeDriver directly...
[launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 1

npm ERR! angular-phonecat@0.0.0 protractor: protractor test/protractor-conf.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the angular-phonecat@0.0.0 protractor script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! protractor test/protractor-conf.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls angular-phonecat
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "run" "protractor"
npm ERR! cwd C:\angular-phonecat
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.28
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

debug log:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'run',
1 verbose cli 'protractor' ]
2 info using npm@1.4.9
3 info using node@v0.10.28
4 verbose run-script [ 'preprotractor', 'protractor', 'postprotractor' ]
5 info preprotractor angular-phonecat@0.0.0
6 verbose unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
7 info protractor angular-phonecat@0.0.0
8 verbose unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 info angular-phonecat@0.0.0 Failed to exec protractor script
10 error angular-phonecat@0.0.0 protractor: protractor test/protractor-conf.js
10 error Exit status 1
11 error Failed at the angular-phonecat@0.0.0 protractor script.
11 error This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,
11 error not with npm itself.
11 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
11 error protractor test/protractor-conf.js
11 error You can get their info via:
11 error npm owner ls angular-phonecat
11 error There is likely additional logging output above.
12 error System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
13 error command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "run" "protractor"
14 error cwd C:\angular-phonecat
15 error node -v v0.10.28
16 error npm -v 1.4.9
17 error code ELIFECYCLE
18 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

What is going on? Is it something simple?

[petebacondarwin]

Can you check that you have the latest version of the Chrome Browser installed?
Can you try installing protractor globally and running it directly:

npm install -g protractor
protractor test/protractor-conf.js

[mzogz]

Running protractor directly from the directory solved it. I also found a google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/angular/frDOqI8iqFE/5DUeK4WMZSAJ) working through the same issue and there are resolutions all the way around.

[petebacondarwin]

Glad it worked out for you.

[sarehawes]

I ran

npm start

in my terminal window, then I opened a new terminal window and ran

npm run protractor

and it works fine. I don't think the instructions are clear enough that this is what you need to do.

[hawaiikaos]

Because I had this same issue and can't install packages globally, this is the way to run it directly when you have a local installation:

./node_modules/.bin/protractor test/protractor-conf.js

[manuglopez]

./node_modules/.bin/protractor test/protractor-conf.js

Worked for me in mac

[RadianSmile]

I meet the same problem as well when following angularjs tutorial at experiments of step 3 :
(when adding some unexpected scenarios into scenarios.js)
https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_03#experiments

And I solve the problem by @hawaiikaos 's method
./node_modules/.bin/protractor test/protractor-conf.js

But why using npm run protractor would got such error after the console inform the unexpected situation?
...

[marklovett]

OSX 10.95

The following solution help me:
angular/protractor#906

[paawansriraag]

Yeah i got the same problem but what i did is just unzipping the downloaded Chromedriver and i run it directly (chromedriver.exe)... This solved my problem :)

[d2002test]

I am running the angular-phonecat example on Mac and get this error for 'npm run protractor' command

[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[launcher] Process exited with error code 1
/Users/macadmin/angular-phonecat/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/async/nexttick.js:39
goog.global.setTimeout(function() { throw exception; }, 0);
^
Error: Timed out waiting for the WebDriver server at http://IP/wd/hub
at Error (native)
at onResponse (/Users/macadmin/angular-phonecat/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/http/util.js:87:11)
at /Users/macadmin/angular-phonecat/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/http/util.js:42:21

There is this forum (Corrupted selenium server jar #656) but don't see a precise solution.
I am also getting different ports in IP.

[jshin49]

in protractor-conf.js
change chromeOnly to directConnect

[carrigmore]

It might help if you add "sudo" to the command
sudo npm run protractor

[bharathkallurs]

In my case I had just got ubuntu 16.04 installed on my system and had not installed the jre package. Once I did, the protractor started working. As people mentioned earlier, please run npm start and npm protractor start in different command line tabs. The instructions on quick start guide seems outdated.

Please check your java path and if it is accessible to start a selenium web server as well.

Hope it helps someone.