Having problems running karma with jenkins in chrome

After chrome updated today it seems our builds no longer work. interactive shells seem to work, just not in jenkins 😦

chrome Version 52.0.2743.82 m OS: Windows Server 2012 r2

Running "karma:continuous" (karma) task
INFO [karma]: Karma v0.12.31 server started at http://localhost:9876/
INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Chrome
INFO [framework.browserify]: 2640391 bytes written (24.08 seconds)
INFO [framework.browserify]: bundle built
WARN [launcher]: Chrome have not captured in 60000 ms, killing.
INFO [launcher]: Trying to start Chrome again (1/2).
WARN [launcher]: Chrome have not captured in 60000 ms, killing.
INFO [launcher]: Trying to start Chrome again (2/2).
WARN [launcher]: Chrome have not captured in 60000 ms, killing.
ERROR [launcher]: Chrome failed 2 times (timeout). Giving up.

[edgahan]

I was running into the same issue with both e2e protractor tests and Karma unit tests. Windows jenkins specifically (running manually in cmd was working fine).

The (temp) fix was the same for both:

In karma.conf:

    browsers: ['ChromeNoSandbox'],

    customLaunchers: {
      ChromeNoSandbox: {
        base: 'Chrome',
        flags: ['--no-sandbox']
      }
    }

In protractor.conf

    browserName: 'chrome',
    chromeOptions: {
      args: ['--no-sandbox']
    }
  }

“karma-chrome-launcher”: “^1.0.1”, and “protractor”: “4.0.0”,

[binarious]

Same problem for me with the following setup:

browsers: [
  'ChromeNoSandbox'
],

customLaunchers: {
  ChromeNoSandbox: {
    base: 'Chrome',
    flags: ['--no-sandbox']
  }
},

karma-chrome-launcher: 2.0.0 karma: 1.3.0 chrome: 53.0.2785.116 os: CentOS 7