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geoB
geoB

Reputation: 4714

selenium-server: Unexpected status SERVICE_PAUSED

Attempts to install Selenium Server as a service (using nssm) in Windows 10 fail with Unexpected status SERVICE_PAUSED on nssm start selenium-server. Selenium is selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar. nssm is 2.24. OS is Windows 10, 1511, 32-bit.

Event viewer says

Service selenium-server ran for less than 1500 milliseconds. Restart will be delayed by 16000 milliseconds.

The objective is to run acceptance tests of a Symfony application using codeception. PhantomJS has been abandoned as it does not accommodate javascript popups.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2560

Answers (2)

user2208522
user2208522

Reputation: 51

I was able to get selenium-server service to start by only having the following in the "AppParameters" registry field that geoB mentions: 

-jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar

It seems the -Xrs isn't a valid parameter and was keeping the jar from starting. Same for -interactive (if you're following Selenium's website instructions (https://kb.op5.com/display/HOWTOs/Setting+up+Selenium+Server+on+Microsoft+Windows)

Upvotes: 0

geoB
geoB

Reputation: 4714

Returning to the question & doing some more searching revealed the solution here. While this is quite old, the key features remain the same (be sure to replace the * to provide the precise file name of the server jar, e.g., selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta4.jar):

  1. In the registry, modify the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\selenium-server\Parameters\AppDirectory to show the directory where the selenium-server-standalone*.jar is saved.
  2. Also modify the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\selenium-server\Parameters\AppParameters to -Xrs -jar selenium-server-standalone*.jar -port 8888

Upvotes: 1

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