CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonrobotframeworkgeckodriver
Mathijs
Mathijs

Reputation: 35

Robotframework fails to start firefox on Linux

I am setting up a robot test-environment. I can't get robot to start the firefox browser.

My environment: Lubunto (linux) 20.04 Python 3.8.10 Firefox 93.0

I installed:

$ pip install --upgrade robotframework-seleniumlibrary
$ pip install webdrivermanager 
$ webdrivermanager browser firefox

I added my .local/bin and .local/share/WebDriverManager/bin to PATH

Installed versions: Robot Framework 4.1.2 webdrivermanager 0.10.0 geckodriver 0.29.0

I created a file helloworld.robot:

*** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary

*** Test Cases ***
Testcase HelloWorld
    Open Browser  https://www.knmi.nl/home  firefox

Running this robot test fails on: WebDriverException: Message: Service geckodriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 64

There is a file geckodriver-1.log containing: geckodriver: error: Found argument '--websocket-port' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

Does anyone have a sugestion how to solve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1242

Answers (2)

Mathijs
Mathijs

Reputation: 35

Helio gave the solution: order webdrivermanager to install 0.30.0:

webdrivermanager firefox:v0.30.0

Please not the 'v' before 0.30.0. Without it webdrivermanager cant find that version.

Upvotes: 1

Helio
Helio

Reputation: 3737

Most likely is outdated version of geckodriver when managed by webdrivermanager.

Try to install manually the latest, 0.30.0.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions