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I want to run my Robot Framework tests which include Selenium2Library keywords on an Ubuntu remote machine so they should be run without a display. At first I just tried to run a simple test and get following result:

WebDriverException: Message: The browser appears to have exited before we could connect. If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.

I installed xvfb in order the run headless tests and run these lines on remote shell:

sudo Xvfb :10 -ac
export DISPLAY=:10

Now i am getting the following error and I can't get rid of it

test                                                                  |         FAIL |
WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: %s If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.

I checked nearly all questions here about Selenium on xvfb and this specific error.

Since some mentioned about Selenium - Firefox incompability, I tried updating selenium (it is up to date, version 2.46.0), my Firefox was latest and i has not worked. Then I tried using an old firefox relase (35.0) which is also not worked

Now I'm trying a solution for this problem and I am almost sure it is about fireofx. Thanks for your answers and advices

EDIT: ->Runing tests with chrome works just fine

->Also i checked my iptables if there is a rule blocking network to local, it is in default state

Kubilay Karpat
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  • You could run through http://dailychitty.blogspot.de/2014/07/configuring-jenkins-agent-to-run-robot.html and check if you missed anything during installation of xvfb. I had installed it for Centos and it had worked fine for me. – Deepti K Jul 01 '15 at 15:47
  • I tried the run that script bu i did not worked acutally the commands in script were very similar to mine and other steps were same till runing xvfb. I think that tihs issue is not related with Xvfb but cant figure out – Kubilay Karpat Jul 02 '15 at 07:40
  • How do you start Firefox in your robot file? Are you trying to pass some special parameters? Does it work if you just use "Open Browser http://stackoverflow.com/ Firefox" – Pekka Jul 04 '15 at 08:52
  • @Pekka Exacty how i am calling firefox. Also I am now sure that problem is with firefox since chome opens and takes screenshos without a problem in same test cases that ff gives error. – Kubilay Karpat Jul 06 '15 at 11:08

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