E/launcher - Server terminated early with status 1

Bug report

• Node Version: 8.1.3
• Protractor Version: 5.1.2
• Angular Version: 4.2.6
• Browser(s): Chrome 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Operating System and Version Windows 10 Pro x64
• Your protractor configuration file

// https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/lib/config.ts

const { SpecReporter } = require('jasmine-spec-reporter');

exports.config = {
  allScriptsTimeout: 11000,
  specs: [
    './e2e/**/*.e2e-spec.ts'
  ],
  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome'
  },
  directConnect: true,
  framework: 'jasmine',
  jasmineNodeOpts: {
    showColors: true,
    defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000,
    print: function () {
    }
  },
  onPrepare() {
    require('ts-node').register({
      project: 'e2e/tsconfig.e2e.json'
    });
    jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new SpecReporter({ spec: { displayStacktrace: true } }));
  }
};

• A relevant example test

import { browser, element, by } from 'protractor';

export class HomePage {
  navigateTo() {
    return browser.get('/');
  }

  getParagraphTitle() {
    return element(by.css('phx-app h1')).getText();
  }

  getParagraphText() {
    return element(by.css('phx-app p')).getText();
  }
}

import { HomePage } from './app.po';

describe('Phenomenex Home Page', () => {
  let page: HomePage;

  beforeEach(() => {
    page = new HomePage();
  });

  it('h1 tag', () => {
    page.navigateTo();
    expect(page.getParagraphTitle()).toEqual(<any>'This is an example header');
  });

  it('p tag', () => {
    page.navigateTo();
    expect(page.getParagraphText()).toEqual(<any>'This example is a quick exercise to illustrate how the default, static and fixed to top navbar work. It includes the responsive CSS and HTML, so it also adapts to your viewport and device.');
  }); 

});

• Output from running the test

H:\d>npm run e2e

> d@0.0.0 pree2e H:\d
> webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome=2.24

[09:01:02] I/update - chromedriver: file exists H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\chromedriver_2.24.zip
[09:01:02] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping chromedriver_2.24.zip
[09:01:03] I/update - chromedriver: chromedriver_2.24.exe up to date
[09:01:03] I/update - selenium standalone: file exists H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar
[09:01:03] I/update - selenium standalone: selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar up to date
[09:01:03] I/update - geckodriver: file exists H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\geckodriver-v0.18.0.zip
[09:01:03] I/update - geckodriver: unzipping geckodriver-v0.18.0.zip
[09:01:04] I/update - geckodriver: geckodriver-v0.18.0.exe up to date

> d@0.0.0 e2e H:\d
> protractor ./protractor.conf.js

(node:17812) [DEP0022] DeprecationWarning: os.tmpDir() is deprecated. Use os.tmpdir() instead.
[09:01:15] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[09:01:15] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...
[09:01:16] E/launcher - Server terminated early with status 1
[09:01:16] E/launcher - Error: Server terminated early with status 1
    at earlyTermination.catch.e (H:\d\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\remote\index.js:252:52)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:169:7)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
    at Function.createSession (H:\d\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver.js:777:24)
    at Function.createSession (H:\d\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chrome.js:709:29)
    at Direct.getNewDriver (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\built\driverProviders\direct.js:77:33)
    at Runner.createBrowser (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:195:43)
    at q.then.then (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:339:29)
    at _fulfilled (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:834:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:863:30)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:796:13)
    at H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:556:49
    at runSingle (H:\d\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:137:13)
[09:01:16] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 199
npm ERR! d@0.0.0 e2e: `protractor ./protractor.conf.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 199
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the d@0.0.0 e2e script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\ChrisR\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-07-13T16_01_17_788Z-debug.log

• Steps to reproduce the bug

npm i -g @angular/cli
ng new t
cd t
ng e2e

I am behind a firewall if that matters, running on localhost.

[rakeshnambiar]

@wswebcreation can you give a try with directConnect: true in the protractor.conf.js

[wendellpereira]

@rakeshnambiar , it worked for me. Thanks!