PhantomJS sometimes crashes

[mcalthrop]

I have been successfully running a fairly comprehensive suite of Protractor e2e tests using Chrome on OSX (Mavericks: 10.9.2).

We have a technical requirement to run these tests headlessly, so I swapped in PhantomJS instead of Chrome, and after 20 seconds (consistently), I get the following error:

Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 8
Fatal error: protractor exited with code: 1

Now for some more detailed information.

Here is the full error output from the grunt task I am running:

Running "protractor:phantomjs" (protractor) task
------------------------------------
PID: 9678 (capability: phantomjs #1)
------------------------------------
Starting selenium standalone server...
Selenium standalone server started at http://192.168.1.111:4444/wd/hub
/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1562
throw error;
^
UnknownError: null
at new bot.Error (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/error.js:109:18)
at Object.bot.response.checkResponse (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/atoms/response.js:106:9)
at /path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:135:24
at /path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:1178:15
at webdriver.promise.ControlFlow.runInNewFrame_ (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1455:20)
at notify (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:328:12)
at notifyAll (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:297:7)
at fulfill (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:402:7)
at /path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/base.js:1178:15
at webdriver.promise.ControlFlow.runInNewFrame_ (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1455:20)
==== async task ====
    WebDriver.createSession()
at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.acquireSession_ (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:132:49)
at Function.webdriver.WebDriver.createSession (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:111:30)
at Builder.build (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/builder.js:105:20)
at LocalDriverProvider.getDriver (/path/node_modules/protractor/lib/driverProviders/local.dp.js:128:9)
at /path/node_modules/protractor/lib/runner.js:327:35
at _fulfilled (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:797:54)
at self.promiseDispatch.done (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:826:30)
at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:759:13)
at /path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:573:44
    [launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 8
>>
Fatal error: protractor exited with code: 1

Package versions:

"grunt-protractor-runner": "~0.2.3"
"protractor": "0.19.0"
"selenium-webdriver": "~2.40"

Contents of protractor.conf.js:

exports.config = {
    seleniumServerJar: '../../node_modules/protractor/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.39.0.jar',
    seleniumPort: 4444,
    seleniumArgs: ['-browserTimeout=60'],
    specs: [
        '../e2e/utils.js',
        '../e2e/**/*-suite.js'
    ],
    capabilities: {
        browserName: 'phantomjs',
        'phantomjs.binary.path': './node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs',
        'phantomjs.cli.args': ['--debug=true', '--webdriver', '--webdriver-logfile=webdriver.log', '--webdriver-loglevel=DEBUG']
    },
    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:9292',
    rootElement: 'body',
    onPrepare: function () {
        require('jasmine-reporters');
        jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new jasmine.JUnitXmlReporter('test/results/', true, true));
    },
    framework: 'jasmine',
    jasmineNodeOpts: {
        onComplete: function () {
        },
        isVerbose: true,
        showColors: true,
        includeStackTrace: true,
        defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
    }
};

I have tried installing version ~1.9.7-1 of the phantomjs package independently of the one that protractor depends upon, and updating the phantomjs.binary.path property in protractor.conf.js, but I get the same result.

After spending far too long debugging the JS to try to isolate where the error is occurring, I know that it is falling over in runner.js.

Specifically in Runner.prototype.runJasmine_(), the anonymous function passed to webdriver.promise.controlFlow().execute() here is never executed.

Can anyone help?

Let me know if you need more information.

Matt

[juliemr]

From the stacktrace, it looks like a webdriver session is never being created (async task at WebDriver.createSession()).

I am running phantomjs 1.9.7-1 and it's working just fine, so it must be somewhere else.

It would be helpful to see the output of your selenium standalone server. Could you run that with webdriver-manager start and change your configuration to use seleniumAddress: http://localhost:4444/wd/hub?

[mcalthrop]

Ok, thanks Julie.

Here's the output:

seleniumProcess.pid: 15184
Mar 05, 2014 10:12:38 AM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main
INFO: Launching a standalone server
Setting system property webdriver.chrome.driver to /full/path/node_modules/protractor/selenium/chromedriver
10:12:44.383 INFO - Java: Oracle Corporation 24.45-b08
10:12:44.384 INFO - OS: Mac OS X 10.9.2 x86_64
10:12:44.403 INFO - v2.39.0, with Core v2.39.0. Built from revision ff23eac
10:12:44.572 INFO - Default driver org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver registration is skipped: registration capabilities Capabilities [{platform=WINDOWS, ensureCleanSession=true, browserName=internet explorer, version=}] does not match with current platform: MAC
10:12:44.632 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
10:12:44.633 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
10:12:44.634 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
10:12:44.635 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
10:12:44.636 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
10:12:44.674 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler@71f993c
10:12:44.674 INFO - Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd]
10:12:44.685 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444
10:12:44.685 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.Server@2db45934
10:15:29.843 INFO - Executing: [new session: Capabilities [{phantomjs.cli.args=[--debug=true, --webdriver, --webdriver-logfile=webdriver.log, --webdriver-loglevel=DEBUG], browserName=phantomjs, phantomjs.binary.path=./node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs}]] at URL: /session)
10:15:29.867 INFO - Creating a new session for Capabilities [{phantomjs.cli.args=[--debug=true, --webdriver, --webdriver-logfile=webdriver.log, --webdriver-loglevel=DEBUG], browserName=phantomjs, phantomjs.binary.path=./node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs}]
10:15:29.896 INFO - executable: /full/path/./node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs
10:15:29.896 INFO - port: 35651
10:15:29.896 INFO - arguments: [--debug=true, --webdriver, --webdriver-logfile=webdriver.log, --webdriver-loglevel=DEBUG, --webdriver=35651, --webdriver-logfile=/full/path/phantomjsdriver.log]
10:15:29.896 INFO - environment: {}
Error: Option webdriver need a value
10:15:50.280 WARN - Exception thrown
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'MattRetina.local', ip: '172.16.4.64', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.9.2', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:188)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.execute(DefaultSession.java:177)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.<init>(DefaultSession.java:113)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.createSession(DefaultSession.java:90)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverSessions.newSession(DefaultDriverSessions.java:104)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.NewSession.handle(NewSession.java:63)
    at org.openqa10:15:50.293 WARN - Exception: null

Note that I've replaced the actual path in the logs above with /full/path/.

[mcalthrop]

So from the Error: Option webdriver need a value message, it looks like the --webdriver option now needs to have a value assigned to it (previously the parameter was required, but did not need a value assigned to it).

I tried removing it, and also assigning to it the value for the webdriver (--webdriver=http://localhost:4444/wd/hub), and both had the same result: I was able to get PhantomJS running. Great!

However, Protractor failed on every assertion with the following error:

UnknownError: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'Hostname.local', ip: '172.16.4.64', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.9.2', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: PhantomJSDriver

And the output from webdriver-manager start included the following:

11:24:27.491 INFO - Executing: [find element: By.id: sign-out] at URL: /session/30e3013c-a159-4c31-adfc-3be450ebed54/element)
[ERROR - 2014-03-05T11:24:27.699Z] WebElementLocator - _handleLocateCommand - Element(s) NOT Found: GAVE UP. Search Stop Time: 1394018667695
11:24:28.628 WARN - Exception thrown
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: {"errorMessage":"Unable to find element with id 'sign-out'","request":{"headers":{"Accept":"application/json, image/png","Connection":"Keep-Alive","Content-Length":"33","Content-Type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","Host":"localhost:39666"},"httpVersion":"1.1","method":"POST","post":"{\"using\":\"id\",\"value\":\"sign-out\"}","url":"/element","urlParsed":{"anchor":"","query":"","file":"element","directory":"/","path":"/element","relative":"/element","port":"","host":"","password":"","user":"","userInfo":"","authority":"","protocol":"","source":"/element","queryKey":{},"chunks":["element"]},"urlOriginal":"/session/b3928c50-a458-11e3-a030-95aefe148b93/element"}}
Command duration or timeout: 404 milliseconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'MattRetina.local', 11:24:28.637 WARN - Exception: {"errorMessage":"Unable to find element with id 'sign-out'","request":{"headers":{"Accept":"application/json, image/png","Connection":"Keep-Alive","Content-Length":"33","Content-Type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","Host":"localhost:39666"},"httpVersion":"1.1","method":"POST","post":"{\"using\":\"id\",\"value\":\"sign-out\"}","url":"/element","urlParsed":{"anchor":"","query":"","file":"element","directory":"/","path":"/element","relative":"/element","port":"","host":"","password":"","user":"","userInfo":"","authority":"","protocol":"","source":"/element","queryKey":{},"chunks":["element"]},"urlOriginal":"/session/b3928c50-a458-11e3-a030-95aefe148b93/element"}}
Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'MattRetina.local', ip: '172.16.4.64', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.9.2', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown

I wonder if there is something else incorrect/missing in the array I am assigning to 'phantomjs.cli.args'?

[mcalthrop]

Hmmm... I just discovered this in the webdriver-manager start logs:

2014-03-05T11:45:01 [DEBUG] Network - Resource request error: 5 ( "Operation canceled" ) URL: "http://username:password@localhost:9292/path/to/static1.json" 
2014-03-05T11:45:01 [DEBUG] Network - Resource request error: 5 ( "Operation canceled" ) URL: "http://username:password@localhost:9292/path/to/static2.json" 
2014-03-05T11:45:01 [DEBUG] Network - Resource request error: 5 ( "Operation canceled" ) URL: "http://username:password@localhost:9292/path/to/service" 
2014-03-05T11:45:01 [DEBUG] WebPage - updateLoadingProgress: 10 
2014-03-05T11:45:01 [DEBUG] WebPage - evaluateJavaScript result QVariant(QString, "{"status":0,"value":null}") 
PhantomJS has crashed. Please read the crash reporting guide at https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Crash-Reporting and file a bug report at https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/new with the crash dump file attached: /tmp/710344B2-2CBA-4B9B-9352-8A016F894B94.dmp

So by the looks of things, PhantomJS is crashing. Which is not good.

I have noticed that on the odd occasion when I run the tests, they actually pass (although I have restricted the tests to just a single one while I'm trying to get PhantomJS running).

For reference, when I run node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs --version, I get 1.9.7.

[mcalthrop]

I wonder if the HTTP authentication is causing a problem with PhantomJS.

So far, I have been putting the authentication details in the baseUrl in protractor.conf.js:

baseUrl: 'http://http_username:http_password@localhost:9292'

Have dug around, and the only PhantomJS documentation on how to pass in HTTP username and password I could find was here.

So I modified my protractor.conf.js as follows:

capabilities: {
    'phantomjs.binary.path': './node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs',
    'phantomjs.cli.args': ['--debug=true', '--webdriver=localhost:4444', '--webdriver-logfile=webdriver.log', '--webdriver-loglevel=INFO'],
    "phantomjs.page.settings.userName": 'http_username',
    "phantomjs.page.settings.password": 'http_password'
},

I also tried adding the --webdriver= parameter as well:

'phantomjs.cli.args': ['--debug=true', '--webdriver=localhost:4444', '--webdriver-logfile=webdriver.log', '--webdriver-loglevel=INFO'],

Unfortunately none of the above solves the problems I have been having.

@juliemr, could you let me know what parameters you are passing to PhantomJS via phantomjs.cli.args?

And are you able to set up an HTTP auth test?

many thanks

Matt

[juliemr]

I also see problems with the --webdriver option. I don't think you should specify that one.

I can add phantomjs.page.settings.userName and phantomjs.page.settings.password and my tests still pass.

Can you try testing against a page which doesn't require HTTP auth, to see if we can rule that out? e.g. run this test against http://www.angularjs.org

describe('angularjs homepage', function() {
  it('should greet the named user', function() {
    browser.get('http://www.angularjs.org');

    element(by.model('yourName')).sendKeys('Julie');

    var greeting = element(by.binding('yourName'));

    expect(greeting.getText()).toEqual('Hello Julie!');
  });
});

[mcalthrop]

Good call. I'll try that tomorrow (UK time).

Could you let me know what parameters you are passing to phantom?

Matt

[juliemr]

I used the same parameters as you, minus the --webdriver one, and then I also tried with no parameters.

[mcalthrop]

Ok, I've tried the what you suggested.

It works fine using Chrome, but when using PhantomJS, I still get the message that PhantomJS has crashed.

Here's what I have in my protractor.conf.js:

exports.config = {
    seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
    seleniumArgs: ['-browserTimeout=60'],
    specs: [
        'bug-tester-suite.js'
    ],
    browserName: 'phantomjs',
    capabilities: {
        'phantomjs.binary.path': './node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs'
    },
    rootElement: 'body',
    onPrepare: function () {
        require('jasmine-reporters');
        jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new jasmine.JUnitXmlReporter('test/results/', true, true));
    },
    framework: 'jasmine',
    jasmineNodeOpts: {
        isVerbose: true,
        showColors: true,
        includeStackTrace: true,
        defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
    }
};

And of course the bug-tester-suite.js file contains the exact contents you specified above.

Here is the protractor output, run via grunt:

Running "protractor:phantomjs" (protractor) task

------------------------------------
    PID: 39204 (capability: phantomjs #1)
------------------------------------

    Using the selenium server at http://localhost:4444/wd/hub

    angularjs homepage
should greet the named user

Failures:

    1) angularjs homepage should greet the named user
Message:
    UnknownError: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
    Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'MattRetina.local', ip: '192.168.50.1', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.9.2', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: EventFiringWebDriver
Stacktrace:
    UnknownError: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
    Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15'
System info: host: 'MattRetina.local', ip: '192.168.50.1', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.9.2', java.version: '1.7.0_45'
Driver info: driver.version: EventFiringWebDriver
    ==== async task ====
    WebDriver.executeScript()
at Protractor.waitForAngular (/full/path/node_modules/protractor/lib/protractor.js:407:22)
at Protractor.findElement (/full/path/node_modules/protractor/lib/protractor.js:568:8)
at Object.elementFinder.(anonymous function) [as sendKeys] (/full/path/node_modules/protractor/lib/protractor.js:88:24)
at null.<anonymous> (/full/path/test/config/bug-tester-suite.js:5:39)
at /full/path/node_modules/protractor/jasminewd/index.js:54:12
    ==== async task ====
    at null.<anonymous> (/full/path/node_modules/protractor/jasminewd/index.js:53:12)
at null.<anonymous> (/full/path/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/minijasminenode/lib/async-callback.js:45:37)
at Timer.listOnTimeout [as ontimeout] (timers.js:110:15)

Finished in 6.811 seconds
1 test, 1 assertion, 1 failure

    [launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 1
>>
Fatal error: protractor exited with code: 1

And here is the output from running node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager start:

10:41:37.765 INFO - Executing: [new session: Capabilities [{browserName=phantomjs, phantomjs.binary.path=./node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs}]] at URL: /session)
10:41:37.767 INFO - Creating a new session for Capabilities [{browserName=phantomjs, phantomjs.binary.path=./node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs}]
10:41:37.773 INFO - executable: /full/path/./node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs
10:41:37.773 INFO - port: 6823
10:41:37.773 INFO - arguments: [--webdriver=6823, --webdriver-logfile=/full/path/phantomjsdriver.log]
10:41:37.773 INFO - environment: {}
PhantomJS is launching GhostDriver...
    [INFO  - 2014-03-06T10:41:39.450Z] GhostDriver - Main - running on port 6823
    [INFO  - 2014-03-06T10:41:39.794Z] Session [e64f3ee0-a51b-11e3-8aba-d31758324c72] - page.settings - {"XSSAuditingEnabled":false,"javascriptCanCloseWindows":true,"javascriptCanOpenWindows":true,"javascriptEnabled":true,"loadImages":true,"localToRemoteUrlAccessEnabled":false,"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) PhantomJS/1.9.7 Safari/534.34","webSecurityEnabled":true}
    [INFO  - 2014-03-06T10:41:39.794Z] Session [e64f3ee0-a51b-11e3-8aba-d31758324c72] - page.customHeaders:  - {}
    [INFO  - 2014-03-06T10:41:39.795Z] Session [e64f3ee0-a51b-11e3-8aba-d31758324c72] - Session.negotiatedCapabilities - {"browserName":"phantomjs","version":"1.9.7","driverName":"ghostdriver","driverVersion":"1.1.0","platform":"mac-unknown-32bit","javascriptEnabled":true,"takesScreenshot":true,"handlesAlerts":false,"databaseEnabled":false,"locationContextEnabled":false,"applicationCacheEnabled":false,"browserConnectionEnabled":false,"cssSelectorsEnabled":true,"webStorageEnabled":false,"rotatable":false,"acceptSslCerts":false,"nativeEvents":true,"proxy":{"proxyType":"direct"}}
    [INFO  - 2014-03-06T10:41:39.795Z] SessionManagerReqHand - _postNewSessionCommand - New Session Created: e64f3ee0-a51b-11e3-8aba-d31758324c72
10:41:39.799 INFO - Done: /session
10:41:39.810 INFO - Executing: [set script timeoutt: 11000] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/timeouts/async_script)
10:41:39.819 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/timeouts/async_script
10:41:39.855 INFO - Executing: [get: about:blank] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url)
10:41:39.871 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url
10:41:39.877 INFO - Executing: [execute script: window.name = "NG_DEFER_BOOTSTRAP!" + window.name;window.location.assign("http://www.angularjs.org/");, []] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute)
10:41:39.885 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute
10:41:39.910 INFO - Executing: [get current url] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url)
10:41:39.916 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url
10:41:40.036 INFO - Executing: [get current url] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url)
10:41:40.043 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url
10:41:40.161 INFO - Executing: [get current url] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url)
10:41:40.169 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url
10:41:40.293 INFO - Executing: [get current url] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url)
10:41:40.302 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/url
10:41:40.336 INFO - Executing: [execute async script: return (function () {
    var attempts = arguments[0];
    var asyncCallback = arguments[arguments.length - 1];
    var callback = function(args) {
        setTimeout(function() {
            asyncCallback(args);
        }, 0);
    };
    var check = function(n) {
        try {
            if (window.angular && window.angular.resumeBootstrap) {
                callback([true, null]);
            } else if (n < 1) {
                if (window.angular) {
                    callback([false, 'angular never provided resumeBootstrap']);
                } else {
                    callback([false, 'retries looking for angular exceeded']);
                }
            } else {
                window.setTimeout(function() {check(n - 1)}, 1000);
            }
        } catch (e) {
            callback([false, e]);
        }
    };
    check(attempts);
}).apply(null, arguments);, [10]] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute_async)
10:41:42.120 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute_async
10:41:42.132 INFO - Executing: [execute script: return (function () {
    // Continue to bootstrap Angular.
    angular.resumeBootstrap(arguments[0]);
}).apply(null, arguments);, [[]]] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute)
10:41:43.336 INFO - Done: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute
10:41:43.348 INFO - Executing: [execute async script: return (function () {
    var el = document.querySelector(arguments[0]);
    var callback = arguments[1];
    try {
        angular.element(el).injector().get('$browser').
            notifyWhenNoOutstandingRequests(callback);
    } catch (e) {
        callback(e);
    }
}).apply(null, arguments);, [body]] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c/execute_async)
PhantomJS has crashed. Please read the crash reporting guide at https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Crash-Reporting and file a bug report at https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/new with the crash dump file attached: /tmp/96DD66B3-7F6D-452D-BFD8-B7A3DC11748B.dmp
10:41:46.650 INFO - Executing: [delete session: 6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c] at URL: /session/6bb308da-46f1-47e2-9b99-57fab05b1e6c)

[mcalthrop]

A bit more info... today I actually got it to run about a dozen tests (out of a suite of around 100) before it crashed.

Plus: a colleague tried running it on an up to date Gentoo installation.

[juliemr]

Hm. You've reached the limits of my phantomjs knowledge.

Any proxies or firewalls? What's the version of phantomJS at /node_modules/karma-phantomjs-launcher/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs?

[mcalthrop]

Version 1.9.7. No firewalls or proxies.

I have built a very simple project that works independently of grunt, so I can hopefully isolate the issue.

Could you have a look at protractor-phantomjs-testing, and see if it always runs ok for you?

I have tried running that several times, and sometimes it works fine, but other times I get the PhantomJS has crashed message.

I have also tried running the same project on Gentoo and Ubuntu installations, and the same thing happens on both of them: sometimes it works, and other times phantomjs crashes.

[mcalthrop]

Hi again Julie

Since I made that post, the tests I originally wrote have changed quite a bit: I discovered that when the target location for protractor & phantomjs is a minimal Angular installation, there are no crashes.

However, it consistently fails when testing against www.angularjs.org.

So I wondered if maybe it had something to do with PhantomJS not being able to handle certain font formats, and I designed a set of tests to see what would happen when fonts were included on that minimal AngularJS page – results are on the github project I linked to in my previous message.