Re: Error “selenium server did not return proper status” when starts PhantomJS

[aitap]

As far as I understand, "Selenium server did not return proper status" happens in the Selenium::Remote::RemoteConnection class. Here is how we can try to get more information on this problem:

1. perldoc -l Selenium::Remote::RemoteConnection to display the file name of the module
2. perl -d yourprogram.pl
3. f path/to/Selenium/Remote/RemoteConnection.pm
4. Use l command to view the source and b command to place a breakpoint before croak "Selenium server did not return proper status";
5. c to run the program; after it stops on the brakepoint, use x to examine values of variables and expressions. Does Selenium client really connect where it is supposed to (localhost:8190)? What is returned in $status object?

I had a problem with Selenium client incorrectly guessing that I have a webdriver running and trying to connect to my I2P instance.

[keplerbr]

Apparently, I had problems with the command "f".

C:\Users\macabeus>cd C:\Users\macabeus\Desktop\bvubot

C:\Users\macabeus\Desktop\bvubot>perldoc -l Selenium::Remote::RemoteCo
+nnection
C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Selenium\Remote\RemoteConnection.pm

C:\Users\macabeus\Desktop\bvubot>perl -d test.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.44
Editor support available.

Enter h or 'h h' for help, or 'perldoc perldebug' for more help.

main::(test.pl:6):      my $phantom = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new(l
+og => 'DEB
UG');

  DB<1> f C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Selenium\Remote\RemoteConnection
+.pm
No file matching 'C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Selenium\Remote\RemoteCo
+nnection.p
m' is loaded.

  DB<2> f path/to/Selenium/Remote/RemoteConnection.pm
No file matching 'path/to/Selenium/Remote/RemoteConnection.pm' is load
+ed.

  DB<3> l
6==>    my $phantom = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new(log => 'DEBUG');
7
8:      1;

  DB<3> b

  DB<3> b 7
Line 7 not breakable.

  DB<4> b 8

  DB<5> c
[DEBUG - 2014-10-19T15:37:47.819Z] Config - config.init - {"ip":"127.0
+.0.1","por
t":"8910","hub":null,"logFile":null,"logLevel":"DEBUG","logColor":fals
+e}
[INFO  - 2014-10-19T15:37:47.897Z] GhostDriver - Main - running on por
+t 8910
Selenium server did not return proper status at (eval 54)[C:/Strawberr
+y/perl/ven
dor/lib/Sub/Quote.pm:5] line 61.
 at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/PhantomJS.pm line 214.
        WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS::new("WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS", "l
+og", "DEBU
G") called at test.pl line 6
Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,
use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
h q, h R or h o to get additional info.

  DB<5> x
0  0

  DB<5> q

C:\Users\macabeus\Desktop\bvubot>

I'm unsure how I can test the connection, because the program results in problems during the construction of the object of PhantomJS

[aitap]

No file matching 'C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Selenium\Remote\RemoteConnection.pm' is loaded.

Does f C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Selenium/Remote/RemoteConnection.pm not work, either? The idea was to examine the variables $self and $status near the place of the error (sub BUILD in RemoteConnection.pm, lines 44-49 in my installation).

[natalie_g]

Sorry for slow poke ...

So I stumbled accross this thread because I have the same problem. And an ugly fix/work-around. Can't do any better because I don't know anything about perl.

1. Open StrawberryPerl\perl\vendor\lib\LWP\Protocol\http.pm
2. Find sub _new_socket
3. Set $host = '127.0.0.1' (maybe '::1' works, too?)

How did I find this solution? The debugging helped. The error reported by IO::Socket::INET is "bad address". Originally the host was "localhost". I have no idea why "localhost" is a bad address but "127.0.0.1" works.

For reference:

• nslookup localhost = no result
• ping localhost = ::1
• http://localhost:8910/ in browser opens as expected
• Windows 10, 64bit
• perl v5.22.0 MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
• Several network cards/adapters but only one enabled
• IPv4 and IPv6
• Default Windows Firewall
• Avast Free AntiVirus