Selenium Standalone has exited with code 1 / The system cannot find the path specified

Question

I am trying to start the webdriver manager from command line, after having installed latest versions node, protractor and java. The whole log after trying webdriver-manager start command:

[16:28:54] I/start - java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\Users\F&J\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\chromedriver_2.43.exe -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=C:\Users\F&J\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\geckodriver-v0.23.0.exe -jar C:\Users\F&J\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\selenium-server-standalone-3.14.0.jar -port 4444 [16:28:54] I/start - seleniumProcess.pid: 13024 Usage: java [-options] class [args...] (to execute a class) or java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...] (to execute a jar file) where options include: -d32 use a 32-bit data model if available -d64 use a 64-bit data model if available -server to select the "server" VM The default VM is server.

-cp -classpath A ; separated list of directories, JAR archives, and ZIP archives to search for class files. -D= set a system property -verbose:[class|gc|jni] enable verbose output -version print product version and exit -version: Warning: this feature is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. require the specified version to run -showversion print product version and continue -jre-restrict-search | -no-jre-restrict-search Warning: this feature is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. include/exclude user private JREs in the version search -? -help print this help message -X print help on non-standard options -ea[:...|:] -enableassertions[:...|:] enable assertions with specified granularity -da[:...|:] -disableassertions[:...|:] disable assertions with specified granularity -esa | -enablesystemassertions enable system assertions -dsa | -disablesystemassertions disable system assertions -agentlib:[=] load native agent library , e.g. -agentlib:hprof see also, -agentlib:jdwp=help and -agentlib:hprof=help -agentpath:[=] load native agent library by full pathname -javaagent:[=] load Java programming language agent, see java.lang.instrument -splash: show splash screen with specified image

See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index.html for more details. The system cannot find the path specified. The system cannot find the path specified. The system cannot find the path specified. [16:28:54] I/start - Selenium Standalone has exited with code 1

Answer 1

Turns out that special characters in the folder names are not handled very well.

The command would run as far as " I/start - java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\Users\F&", which was not a valid path.