Getting "Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died." with chromedriver

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 3153

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start test code for Chrome (works for IE and Firefox)

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

I would expect to see the browser start up.  This used to be working before.  It hasn't
been for quite a while, but I am not sure what (if anything) changed between it working
and not working.  The nightly tests are just running a simple logon-logoff test now
and were not critical until now.

Here is the console output I get from my program through the grid:

[TestNG] Running:
  Command line suite

Creating Selenium googlechrome http://iiscf1a session...
Trying to start test session with: Capabilities [{platform=ANY, browserName=chrome,
chrome.switches=[--ignore-certificate-errors], v
ersion=}]
Unable to create Selenium session.
Jan 5, 2012 1:20:55 PM simplegridtestng.DOTN_LoginTest setUp
SEVERE: null
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Error communicating with the remote browser.
It may have died.
Build info: version: '2.14.0', revision: '14955', time: '2011-11-29 11:43:45'
System info: os.name: 'Windows Vista', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.0', java.version:
'1.6.0_29'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:396)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:115)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:76)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:84)
        at dotn_helper.DOTN_Helper.<init>(DOTN_Helper.java:323)
        at simplegridtestng.DOTN_LoginTest.setUp(DOTN_LoginTest.java:48)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:76)
        at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:525)
        at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:202)
        at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:130)
        at org.testng.TestRunner.beforeRun(TestRunner.java:624)
        at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:592)
        at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:317)
        at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:312)
        at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:274)
        at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:223)
        at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
        at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
        at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1039)
        at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:964)
        at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:900)
        at simplegridtestng.SimpleGridTestNG.main(SimpleGridTestNG.java:74)
Caused by: org.apache.http.ConnectionClosedException: Premature end of Content-Length
delimited message body (expected: 4411; received: 2543
        at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream.read(ContentLengthInputStream.java:178)
        at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream.read(ContentLengthInputStream.java:197)
        at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream.close(ContentLengthInputStream.java:105)
        at org.apache.http.conn.BasicManagedEntity.streamClosed(BasicManagedEntity.java:152)
        at org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream.checkClose(EofSensorInputStream.java:237)
        at org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream.close(EofSensorInputStream.java:186)
        at org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils.consume(EntityUtils.java:67)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor$EntityWithEncoding.<init>(HttpCommandExecutor.java:490)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:378)
        at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:382)
        ... 25 more


Selenium version: 2.14.0
ChromeDriver.EXE Version: 18.0.995.0 (It fails the same way with 17.0.963.0)
OS: Windows Vista
Browser: Google Chrome
Browser version: N/A (always the latest version)

I am running through a grid server, but the program, grid server, and node server are
all running locally on the same Vista VM in this case.

My tests are being initiating via TestNG and the browser is being started up by this
code (DOTN_Helper.java:323):

    public DOTN_Helper(TestParameters testParameters) throws Exception
    {
        String str;
        org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities capability;
        String[] chromeSwitches =
        {
            "--ignore-certificate-errors"
        };
        FirefoxProfile ffProfile;
        final String[] BROWSERS =
        {
            "*firefox",
            "*iexplore",
            "googlechrome",
            "htmlunit",
            //        "safari", // Not supported by RemoteWebdriver yet.
            "opera"
        };

        setTestParams(testParameters);
        testNG = testParameters.testNG;

        switch (Parser.findString(browserName, BROWSERS))
        {
            case 0:
                capability = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
                str = "Firefox" + browserVersion + ".profile";
                ffProfile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(str));
                capability.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, ffProfile);
                break;
            case 1:
                capability = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
                break;
            case 2:
                capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
                capability.setCapability("chrome.switches",
                                         Arrays.asList(chromeSwitches));
                //capability.setCapability("chrome.binary",
                //    "C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Google Chrome\\chrome.exe");
                break;
            case 3:
                capability = DesiredCapabilities.htmlUnit();
                capability.setJavascriptEnabled(true); // Off by default for htmlUnit
                break;
            case 4:
                capability = DesiredCapabilities.opera();
                break;
            default:
                throw new Exception("Unknown browser name for RemoteWebDriver: " +
                                    browserName + ".");
        }   // switch

        if (platform.equalsIgnoreCase("WINDOWS") || browserName.equals(
                "*iexplore"))
            capability.setPlatform(Platform.WINDOWS);
        else
            capability.setPlatform(Platform.ANY);

        capability.setVersion(browserVersion);
        Reporter.log("Trying to start test session with: " +
                     capability.toString(), true);
        driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://" + host + ":" + port +
                                             "/wd/hub"), capability);

Chromedriver.log file:
[0104/203114:ERROR:automation_json_requests.cc(42)] JSON request failed: GetAppModalDialogMessage
    with error: No modal dialog is showing
[0104/203117:ERROR:ipc_channel_win.cc(247)] pipe error: 109

Reported by lvskiprof on 2012-01-05 21:36:22

[lukeis]

Seems to be similar to http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=3000

Reported by krishnan.mahadevan1978 on 2012-01-16 11:33:38

[lukeis]

I agree that it looks to be the same thing.  I would have sworn that mine worked on
2.12.0 before, but I may be mistaken.  Prior to 2.12.0 I was using 2.5.0 and I know
Chrome was working with that version for sure.

Reported by lvskiprof on 2012-01-16 21:22:24

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2012-01-27 08:18:47

• Status changed: Duplicate
• Merged into: Getting org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died. #3000

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:14:31

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