[🐛 Bug]: Ruby - Selenium Manager throwing error

[kevin-roe]

What happened?

When running tests today Selenium started failing with this message:

/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.rb:79:in `run': undefined method `positive?' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

          return result unless status.exitstatus.positive? || result.nil?

I was able to reproduce the issue with this simple code:

require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit

I tracked it down to here, where the command is returning pid 4961 SIGKILL (signal 9) on the status on line 67, causing line 79 to eventually cause the process to die.

This randomly started happening to me earlier today, and eventually 4 other members of my team started experiencing this as well. I don't have a ton of knowledge on how Selenium Manager works, but due to the random nature of this I imagine some process on my machine is pulling in some updated version of the bin/macos/seneium-manager executable and that is causing problems, but that's just my best guess.

How can we reproduce the issue?

gem install selenium-webdriver -v 4.25.0


```ruby
require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :chrome
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit

### Relevant log output

```shell
2024-10-18 13:49:48 INFO Selenium [:logger_info] Details on how to use and modify Selenium logger:
  https://selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/logging

2024-10-18 13:49:48 DEBUG Selenium [:selenium_manager] Selenium Manager binary found at /Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/bin/macos/selenium-manager 
2024-10-18 13:49:48 DEBUG Selenium [:selenium_manager] Executing Process ["/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/bin/macos/selenium-manager", "--browser", "chrome", "--language-binding", "ruby", "--output", "json", "--debug"] 
2024-10-18 13:49:48 ERROR Selenium Exception occurred: undefined method `positive?' for nil:NilClass

          return result unless status.exitstatus.positive? || result.nil?
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^
2024-10-18 13:49:48 ERROR Selenium Backtrace:
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.rb:79:in `run'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.rb:44:in `binary_paths'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver_finder.rb:58:in `paths'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver_finder.rb:35:in `browser_path'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver_finder.rb:43:in `browser_path?'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/local_driver.rb:43:in `process_options'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/local_driver.rb:27:in `initialize_local_driver'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/chrome/driver.rb:34:in `initialize'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:47:in `new'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:47:in `for'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-4.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver.rb:89:in `for'
	/Users/kevin.roe/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/qa_automation_sdk-3.4.7/lib/qa_automation_sdk/drivers/selenium_adapter.rb:19:in `create_webdriver'

Operating System

MacOS Sequoia

Selenium version

Ruby 4.25.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 130.0.6723.59, Firefox 131.0.3

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Can't get the driver - that is the problem

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

[github-actions]

@kevin-roe, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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Thank you!

[kevin-roe]

We were able to fix the problem by reverting back to 4.24.0. We also had to uninstall 4.25.0 for the fix to work

[kevin-roe]

Is there an update on this? We would prefer not have to remain on 4.24.0 for the foreseeable future.

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This issue is stale because it has been open 280 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 14 days.

[titusfortner]

Sorry it has taken so long to address this. Should be available for next release