Hi! I'm currently working on installed wdio to help with testing a vscode extension. When I try and run the boilerplate test file that was created through the wizard I'm getting the following error:
ERROR webdriver: Request failed with status 500 due to unknown error: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.
[0-0] (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
What I'm finding strange is that I'm able to manually run the chromium/index.js file and provide all of the same flags that are provided as when I run the wdio run command and successfully start the emulated vscode instance. When I run wdio run wdio.conf.js , the vscode instance never starts and I get the above error.
2023-08-23T19:19:10.044Z DEBUG @wdio/utils:initialiseServices: initialise service "vscode" as NPM package
2023-08-23T19:19:10.449Z INFO chromedriver: Initiate Chromedriver Launcher (v8.1.1)
2023-08-23T19:19:10.449Z INFO @wdio/cli:launcher: Run onPrepare hook
2023-08-23T19:19:10.459Z INFO wdio-vscode-service/launcher: Fetch releases from https://update.code.visualstudio.com/api/releases/stable
2023-08-23T19:19:11.124Z INFO wdio-vscode-service/launcher: Download Chromedriver (v108.0.5359.71)
2023-08-23T19:19:14.788Z INFO chromedriver: Start Chromedriver (path/to/extension/.wdio-vscode-service/chromedriver-108.0.5359.71) with args --port=9515 --url-base=/
2023-08-23T19:19:15.048Z INFO chromedriver: Starting ChromeDriver 108.0.5359.71 (1e0e3868ee06e91ad636a874420e3ca3ae3756ac-refs/branch-heads/5359@{#1016}) on port 9515
2023-08-23T19:19:15.049Z INFO chromedriver: Only local connections are allowed.
2023-08-23T19:19:15.049Z INFO chromedriver: Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
2023-08-23T19:19:15.050Z INFO chromedriver: ChromeDriver was started successfully.
2023-08-23T19:19:15.142Z DEBUG @wdio/cli:utils: Finished to run "onPrepare" hook in 4692ms
2023-08-23T19:19:15.144Z INFO @wdio/utils: Setting up browser driver for: vscode@stable
2023-08-23T19:19:15.144Z INFO @wdio/utils: Setting up browser binaries for: vscode@stable
2023-08-23T19:19:15.151Z INFO @wdio/cli:launcher: Run onWorkerStart hook
2023-08-23T19:19:15.152Z DEBUG @wdio/cli:utils: Finished to run "onWorkerStart" hook in 0ms
2023-08-23T19:19:15.153Z INFO @wdio/local-runner: Start worker 0-0 with arg: run,./src/test/wdio.conf.js
2023-08-23T19:19:15.178Z DEBUG @wdio/local-runner: Send command run to worker with cid "0-0"
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.347Z INFO @wdio/local-runner: Run worker command: run
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.358Z DEBUG @wdio/runner: init remote session
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.361Z DEBUG @wdio/utils:initialiseServices: initialise service "vscode" as NPM package
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.811Z INFO wdio-vscode-service: Start VSCode proxy server on port 56358
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.812Z INFO wdio-vscode-service: Setting up VSCode directory at /var/folders/0n/p0zc4r5j4bz1f0d5br0yv_4r0000gn/T/tmp-35684-o6rrwnUFh2FX/settings/User
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.815Z INFO wdio-vscode-service: Start VSCode: path/to/extension/node_modules/wdio-vscode-service/dist/chromium/index.js --no-sandbox --disable-updates --skip-welcome --skip-release-notes --disable-workspace-trust --disable-extensions --extension-development-path=path/to/extension/src --extension-tests-path=path/to/extension/node_modules/wdio-vscode-service/dist/proxy/cjs/entry.js --user-data-dir=/var/folders/0n/p0zc4r5j4bz1f0d5br0yv_4r0000gn/T/tmp-35684-o6rrwnUFh2FX/settings --extensions-dir=/var/folders/0n/p0zc4r5j4bz1f0d5br0yv_4r0000gn/T/tmp-35684-o6rrwnUFh2FX/extensions --vscode-binary-path="path/to/extension/.wdio-vscode-service/vscode-darwin-1.81.1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron"
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.816Z DEBUG @wdio/utils:shim: Finished to run "beforeSession" hook in 11ms
[0-0] ACTUALLY RUNING TEH TEST
[0-0] RUNNING in chrome - file:///src/test/specs/test.e2e.mjs
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.924Z DEBUG @wdio/runner: init remote session
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.926Z INFO webdriver: Initiate new session using the WebDriver protocol
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.926Z INFO @wdio/utils: Connecting to existing driver at http://localhost:9515/
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.951Z INFO webdriver: [POST] http://localhost:9515/session
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:16.952Z INFO webdriver: DATA {
[0-0] capabilities: {
[0-0] alwaysMatch: {
[0-0] browserName: 'chrome',
[0-0] browserVersion: 'stable',
[0-0] 'wdio:vscodeOptions': [Object],
[0-0] 'goog:chromeOptions': [Object]
[0-0] },
[0-0] firstMatch: [ {} ]
[0-0] },
[0-0] desiredCapabilities: {
[0-0] browserName: 'chrome',
[0-0] browserVersion: 'stable',
[0-0] 'wdio:vscodeOptions': {
[0-0] extensionPath: 'path/to/extension/src',
[0-0] userSettings: [Object],
[0-0] binary: '"path/to/extension/.wdio-vscode-service/vscode-darwin-1.81.1/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron"'
[0-0] },
[0-0] 'goog:chromeOptions': {
[0-0] binary: 'path/to/extension/node_modules/wdio-vscode-service/dist/chromium/index.js',
[0-0] args: [Array],
[0-0] windowTypes: [Array]
[0-0] }
[0-0] }
[0-0] }
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:17.134Z DEBUG webdriver: request failed due to response error: unknown error
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:17.136Z DEBUG @wdio/utils:shim: Finished to run "after" hook in 0ms
[0-0] 2023-08-23T19:19:17.135Z ERROR webdriver: Request failed with status 500 due to unknown error: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.
[0-0] (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
[0-0] (The process started from chrome location path/to/extension/node_modules/wdio-vscode-service/dist/chromium/index.js is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Running the following in my terminal results in the vscode instance starting properly
Hi! I'm currently working on installed wdio to help with testing a vscode extension. When I try and run the boilerplate test file that was created through the wizard I'm getting the following error:
What I'm finding strange is that I'm able to manually run the chromium/index.js file and provide all of the same flags that are provided as when I run the wdio run command and successfully start the emulated vscode instance. When I run wdio run wdio.conf.js , the vscode instance never starts and I get the above error.
Running the following in my terminal results in the vscode instance starting properly