Protractor gives “Unable to start a WebDriver session” error

Question

I already have started a server with webdriver-manager start, but I get this error when I try to run protractor:

Using the selenium server at ht         


        

Answer 1

I generated code using JHipster and had similar error where e2e was not working. I provided binary path. But upon npm run e2e the browser opened and displayed data; in the address bar.

I shuffled and provided the binary at the end of chromeOptions after the args and it worked.

capabilities: {
        browserName: 'chrome',
        chromeOptions: {
            args: process.env.JHI_E2E_HEADLESS
                ? [ "--headless", "--disable-gpu", "--window-size=800,600" ]
                : [ "--disable-gpu", "--window-size=800,600" ],
            binary: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe"
        }
    }

Note: I also had to update the chrome version when an unsupported webdriver version error occurred.