java.lang.RuntimeException: File was a script file, not a real executable: \/usr\/bin\/firefox-bin<\/code><\/p>\nBefore actually spotting this line, I was mis-led by other log messages; but I will not talk about them in this post.<\/p>\n
The reason for the failing tests was that Selenium Server thought that the default executable found in the path (\/usr\/bin\/firefox) was a script file and not an executable application for the browser. I am not sure why Selenium Server checks whether the path to the browser should not be a script.<\/p>\n
The cause of the problem is that because of\u00a0 Ubuntu Hardy Heron upgrade, my firefox also got upgraded from 2.x to 3.x. The firefox browser executable in 2.x is a binary file; whereas for firefox 3.x, it is a script (.sh) file. As a result of this change, the check done by\u00a0 Selenium Server was failing.<\/p>\n
I resolved this problem by providing explicit path to the Firefox 2 executable file in the java code. (I also tried providing explicit path to the Firefox 3 executable but that is no help).<\/p>\n
So, the code for the Java Selenium test-case looks like this :<\/p>\n
selenium = new DefaultSelenium(\"localhost\", 4444, \"*firefox \/usr\/lib\/firefox\/firefox-2-bin\", url);<\/code><\/p>\nThis is not a solution, if you want to test your app with Firefox 3. I haven’t figured out the solution for making it work with Firefox 3; but for the time being, I am happy with testing my application with Firefox 2.<\/p>\n
If somebody has a solution for making it work with Firefox 3, please post the solution as a comment to the blog.<\/p>\n
-Deepak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a big fan of Selenium and have been using Selenium for quite some time for testing of web-applications. Recently, I upgraded my machine to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the next day, I found that all the selenium tests started failling on my machine. On digging through the logs, I found the following information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,25,8],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}