Question

I’m trying to run a series of selenium tests using maven and I get this error:

Running com.myapp.web.selenium.MySeleniumTest
WARN  [SocketListener0-1] HttpConnection - POST /selenium-server/driver/ HTTP/1.1
java.lang.RuntimeException: Firefox refused shutdown while preparing a profile
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFullProfileToBeCreated(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:27
7)
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.launch(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:147)
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.AbstractBrowserLauncher.launchRemoteSession(AbstractBrowserLauncher.java:24)
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.getNewBrowserSession(SeleniumDriverResourceHandler.java:587)
        .............
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher$FileLockRemainedException: Lock file still present! C:\DOCUME~1\Fl
orin\LOCALS~1\Temp\customProfileDir894171\parent.lock
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFileLockToGoAway(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:235)
        at org.openqa.selenium.server.browserlaunchers.FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.waitForFullProfileToBeCreated(FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java:27

I’m using Firefox 3.6.8, selenium-java-client-driver 0.9.2 and selenium-server 0.9.2.
I start the selenium server from the tests like this:

private static void initServer() throws Exception {
    String[] args = new String[]{"-port", String.valueOf(4444)};
    SeleniumServer.main(args);
}

It seems that the selenium profile is being locked and not released so that the subsequent tests can use it.

Answer 1

The version of Selenium that you are using is actually quite old. Have you tried using the Selenium Maven plugin instead? In my experience, Selenium has often needed to be upgraded to accommodate newer versions of browsers.