PhantomJS crashes when used with Rspec/Capybara/Poltergeist

[ariya]

finites...@gmail.com commented:

Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run 'phantomjs --version'.

phantomjs-1.6.1-macosx-static installed via homebrew

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Install phantomjs & poltergeist. Add

require 'capybara/poltergeist'
Capybara.javascript_driver = :poltergeist

to spec/spec_helper.rb

Run rspec on tests with ':js => true'

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect the test suite to run, instead I get the following message:

 Capybara::Poltergeist::DeadClient:
   The PhantomJS client died while processing {"name":"visit","args":["http://127.0.0.1:59433/",{}]}

PhantomJS has crashed. Please file a bug report at https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/entry and attach the crash dump file: /tmp/3F54E4A4-3A84-4A7A-8F4A-B44A7F0A0971.dmp

Which operating system are you using?

Mac OSX Mountain Lion

Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?

phantomjs-1.6.1-macosx-static installed via homebrew

Disclaimer:
This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #765.
🌟   3 people had starred this issue at the time of migration.

[ariya]

daniel....@odacer.com commented:

Is it maybe because of TrueTypeFonts? I'm struggling with the same error (MacOs X + Poltergeist + PhantomJS) and I have also Font-Awesome in my setup. Regarging this reported issue..:

teampoltergeist/poltergeist#44

...I'll try now to disable all TrueTypeFonts and rerun my specs again. I'm keen if this would make a difference for you, too. Regards Loybert

[ariya]

daniel....@odacer.com commented:

Update: all my tests pass, as i removed font-awesome from the asset-pipeline. I'll check if there's any possibility to make asset-requirements conditional, unless this issue persists.

Greetings Loybert

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Can you try with version 1.8.1? The font crash has been fixed (issue 690).