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CHROME_BIN being ignored

See original GitHub issue

karma seems to fail to find chrome (though it’s in the usual, default location), so I sed CHROME_BIN:

$ echo $CHROME_BIN
/usr/bin/chromium
$ ./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start
INFO [karma]: Karma v0.12.24 server started at http://localhost:9876/
INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Chrome
ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start Chrome
        Can not find the binary google-chrome
        Please set env variable CHROME_BIN
INFO [Chrome 38.0.2125 (Linux)]: Connected on socket Y_kpEkvqa_GuyoaXj2qd with id manual-7363
$ test -x /usr/bin/chromium; echo $?                                                                                           
0

It seems that karma is ignoring CHROME_BIN.

Aditionally, I’ve seen not *nix distribution package chrome’s binary as google-chrome, so maybe the default binary name should be chromium?

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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WhyNotHugocommented, Nov 13, 2014

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was unaware of the difference (subprocesses inheretance).

Maybe karma’s output could use some tweaking to make this clearer?

INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Chrome
ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start Chrome
        Can not find the binary google-chrome
        Please set env variable CHROME_BIN

It’s not obvious that I should use EXPORT according to this.

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maksimrcommented, Nov 12, 2014

@hobarrera if you set variable CHROME_BIN without export it will not work because sub process does not inherit this variable. You should use export or run sub process with predefined variable

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