Error message when running dusk on a fresh laravel install

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Dusk Version

8.2

Laravel Version

11.26

PHP Version

8.3.11

PHPUnit Version

11.3.6

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

Error message when running php artisan dusk on a fresh laravel install:

Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {"capabilities":{"firstMatch":[{"browserName":"chrome","goog:chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1920,1080","--disable-search-engine-choice-screen","--disable-gpu","--headless=new"]}}]},"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome","platform":"ANY","goog:chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1920,1080","--disable-search-engine-choice-screen","--disable-gpu","--headless=new"]}}}

Failed to connect to localhost port 9515 after 0 ms: Couldn't connect to server

Steps To Reproduce

laravel new dusk-project # I chose Pest as the testing framework, don't know if it also fails with phpunit
cd dusk-project
composer require laravel/dusk --dev
php artisan dusk:install
php artisan dusk

[crynobone]

Can you run php artisan dusk:chrome-driver --detect and try again

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Of course. The problem persists:

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I don't really understand what just happened but here it is: on my colleague's machine, the prepare method of DuskTestCase is never called, so it does not start the chrome driver process. I suspected the same was happening to me, so I added a dd('test') to it, and it did show on my machine.

The interesting part is that after removing the dd(), now dusk seems to work:

I did not change anything really.

[crynobone]

It's hard to debug what's missing on the initial install. not calling prepare() might indicate and old PHPUnit installs. The error earlier might indicate missmatch version between Chrome and ChromeDriver.

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The prepare issue is indeed on an older project, but that problem is different, let's ignore it for now.

I tried making yet another fresh Laravel project, and doing the exact steps I described before:

laravel new dusk-project # I chose Pest as the testing framework, don't know if it also fails with phpunit
cd dusk-project
composer require laravel/dusk --dev
php artisan dusk:install
php artisan dusk

I still get the dusk error. However, running php artisan dusk a second time, it works:

I tried doing this on two different machines and I get the same result.