How to walk the PhantomJS path to selenium mesh

Question

I get an error when trying to configure phantomjs node on Selenium Grid ( https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Selenium+Plugin )

I configured the following json configuration:

{ "capabilities": [ { "browserName": "phantomjs", "phantomjs.binary.path": "/usr/bin/phantomjs", "platform": "LINUX", "maxInstances": 5 } ], "configuration": { "nodeTimeout":120, "port":5555, "hubPort":4444, "hubHost":"localhost", "nodePolling":2000, "registerCycle":10000, "register":true, "cleanUpCycle":2000, "timeout":30000, "maxSession":1 } } 

But I get an error when starting webdriver:

 WebDriverException: Message: The path to the driver executable must be set by the phantomjs.binary.path capability/system property/PATH variable; for more information, see https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki. The latest version can be downloaded from http://phantomjs.org/download.html Stacktrace: at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState (Preconditions.java:199) at org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriverService.findPhantomJS (PhantomJSDriverService.java:236) at org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriverService.createDefaultService (PhantomJSDriverService.java:181) at org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriver.<init> (PhantomJSDriver.java:104) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0 (NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:-2) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance (NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance (DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance (Constructor.java:526) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverProvider.callConstructor (DefaultDriverProvider.java:103) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverProvider.newInstance (DefaultDriverProvider.java:97) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverFactory.newInstance (DefaultDriverFactory.java:60) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call (DefaultSession.java:222) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call (DefaultSession.java:1) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run (FutureTask.java:262) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1.run (DefaultSession.java:176) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:745) -------------------- >> begin captured logging << -------------------- selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection: DEBUG: POST http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub/session {"desiredCapabilities": {"browserName": "phantomjs"}} selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection: DEBUG: Finished Request 

If I stop the node launched by the plugin (and support the plugin hub) and manually start my own node as follows, it works fine:

 java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar -role webdriver -browser browserName=phantomjs,platform=LINUX -hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register 

[edit] phantomjs is executable from the shell and lives in / usr / bin / phantomjs:

 $ whereis phantomjs phantomjs: /usr/bin/phantomjs 

I can’t find the canonical description of the phantomjs online installation, and this is not one of the default browser options provided by the plugin.

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The problem with the above was OS resolution on /usr/bin/phantomjs ; I needed to do chmod a+x on it.

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Friendly adding this extra problem

This works (manually triggered by me):

/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.111.x86_64/jre/bin/java -jar /var/lib/jenkins/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar -role webdriver -browser browserName=phantomjs,platform=LINUX -hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register

This does not happen (the process started by the selenium plugin):

/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.111.x86_64/jre/bin/java -cp /var/cache/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/remoting-2.56.jar hudson.remoting.Launcher -cp /var/lib/jenkins/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar:/var/lib/jenkins/htmlunit-driver-standalone-2.20.jar -connectTo localhost:36322

Error starting test: PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase_WebDriverException: The process has not exited yet therefore no result is available

Answer 1

Adding an answer in case someone skips a comment.

Please check if phantomjs has "x" (execute) access for all users. If not, use the command to change access.

 chmod +x /usr/bin/phantomjs 

The new error "The process has not yet come out, therefore the result is not available" basically comes with a mismatch of the version of selenium / driver. You can try lowering the version of selenium.

Btw, which version of phantoms are you using.

Answer 2

Try adding -Dphantomjs.binary.path=/usr/bin/phantomjs to your Java flags for Jenkins (usually see /etc/default/jenkins or /etc/sysconfig/jenkins ).

Answer 3

juste add the path to the command line as follows:

 '/usr/bin/java' -Dphantomjs.binary.path='/home/john/.local/share/binman_phantomjs/linux64/2.1.1/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs' -jar '/home/john/.local/share/binman_seleniumserver/generic/3.0.1/selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar'