Laravel Dusk error: Failed to connect to localhost port 9515: Connection refused

Question

As the title says, I've go a clean install of Laravel 5.4 and the latest Homestead (1.0.1). However, when I run a simple Dusk test case I get the following error:

Failed to connect to localhost port 9515: Connection refused

Anyone know how to deal with this? I tried changing the port to something else such as 8888 to no avail.

EDIT: I've been able to dig a little deeper and found out that the chromedriver executable was not actually executable (chmod). Now that I've fixed that I get this error when I manually try to run it.

./chromedriver: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution 1

For those looking for a solution on Mac, I've just had to restart Chrome. Yes, Chrome, the browser. It seems it'd a pending update (it said that in the upper right corner).

Restarting it, and later chromedriver, make everything went fine

Solution 2

I had this issue today and the solution is on Laracasts.

Here's a copy.

# makes sure all your repos are up to date
sudo apt-get update

# chrome dependencies I think
sudo apt-get -y install libxpm4 libxrender1 libgtk2.0-0 libnss3 libgconf-2-4

# chromium is what I had success with on Codeship, so seemed a good option
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

# XVFB for headless applications
sudo apt-get -y install xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf

# fonts for the browser
sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base         xfonts-scalable

# support for screenshot capturing
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick x11-apps

# Once all this has run through, you need to fire up xvfb on your homestead box. If you’re planning to # do this on a regular basis, you’ll want to get this setup on boot, but for the sake of testing things out:
Xvfb -ac :0 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 &

Solution 3

On Ubuntu Linux 16.04, I got this to work:

Install Chromium & dependencies for headless testing

sudo apt-get -y install chromium-browser xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable imagemagick x11-apps

Create a customDuskCommand

Which extends the original, with this handle method:

public function handle()
{
    $xvfb = (new ProcessBuilder())
        ->setTimeout(null)
        ->setPrefix('/usr/bin/Xvfb')
        ->setArguments(['-ac',  ':0', '-screen', '0', '1280x1024x16'])
        ->getProcess();

    $xvfb->start();

    try {
        parent::handle();
    } finally {
        $xvfb->stop();
    }

    return;
}

This will start Xvfb for headless testing before executing the tests and stop the process after testing completes.

Edit: And make sure vendor/laravel/dusk/bin/chromedriver-linux is executable.

Solution 4

It appears your chrome-driver installation is broken.

You can try to install it from scratch

CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION=`curl -sS chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`

wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$CHROME_DRIVER_VERSION/chromedriver_linux64.zip -P ~/
unzip ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/
rm ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv -f ~/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

Solution 5

This should help you download the latest version of chrome driver and unpack it properly.

LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -s https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE) && wget -O /tmp/chromedriver.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.co /$LATEST_VERSION/chromedriver_linux64.zip && sudo unzip /tmp/chromedriver.zip chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/;

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Comments

[mpemburn]

It required a full reboot, but that worked.