Hi,

I have a Linode and would like to run some Salenium test on it. But I am getting the following errors:

unable to obtain stable firefox connection in 60 seconds (127.0.0.1:7055) (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError)

The reason is that firefox can't be start up through command line. I also tried the followings:

~$ firefox
Error: no display specified

I understand there shouldn't be any display attached to the server. But is there any solution to start a firefox from command line?

Thanks,
Owen

I've run selenium on Linode by setting up X and VNC on the server so I can VNC in to it and watch Firefox play the Selenium scripts.

It worked really well, even used it as a sort of monitor to constantly play the selenium scripts against the live site and alert on failure. VNC was very convenient because when it failed I could see what the failed web page looked like in firefox.

So I'd suggest setting up and x environment and VNC server, then run firefox in that.

If you're running a reasonable OS locally (not Windows), you can add the -X option to ssh's command line and it will proxy requests to your local X server. firefox will, of course, perish when your ssh connection goes away, but it will get past the immediate problem.

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Hi

thanks for the advice! Do you have any useful links on setting up minimum x environment and VNC server on Ubuntu?

Actually I am running the selenium through Hudson/Jenkins, would it still work that way?

Thanks in advance,
Owen

Googling for "ubuntu remote vnc howto headless" shows a few decent looking howtos:

http://www.scotttyee.com/blog/2009/12/0 ... -with-vnc/

http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/20 ... u-box.aspx