How to make protractor run with puppeteer and chrome 78?

Question

I am using Protractor for Angular E2E Tests + Puppeteer for a consistent Chrome Version in all CI-Servers.

Lately I am getting SessionNotCreatedError: session not

Answer 1

This has been an issue for a few months now. There are several threads on their github repo around it. The workaround for me has been to navigate to ~/node_modules/protractor and manually install webdriver-manager@latest. You should see webdriver-manager@12.1.7 installed.

> cd node_modules\protractor
> npm i webdriver-manager@latest