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Karma is not able to run test cases on phantomJS

See original GitHub issue

I have been trying to get Karma to run tests on PhantomJS for the last couple of hours and seem to be stuck at it. I had my entire suit run tests in Chrome and it ran without a quirk. on trying to run it with Karma, it would just not run.

I was running phantomjs 1.9 and then i reverted to 1.8. i tried installing it from the distributed binary from the phantomjs site and i also tried to install it through npm. But i had no avail in any of the combinations. I am on a 64bit Ubuntu machine.

I am pretty sure my configurations are correct and i checked phantomjs which again seems to be working.

Am i missing something here. or is this some bizarre bug.

I am attaching my debug logs below.

DEBUG [reporter]: Using reporter "dots".
DEBUG [reporter]: Using reporter "junit".
INFO [karma]: Karma server started at http://localhost:9876/
INFO [launcher]: Starting browser PhantomJS
DEBUG [launcher]: Creating temp dir at /tmp/testacular-86450027
DEBUG [launcher]: phantomjs /tmp/testacular-86450027/capture.js
DEBUG [watcher]: Resolved files:
    /home/kausikram/lib/node_modules/karma/adapter/lib/jasmine.js
    /home/kausikram/lib/node_modules/karma/adapter/jasmine.js
    /home/kausikram/Projects/scloud/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery/jquery.js
    /home/kausikram/Projects/scloud/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery/jquery.dynoform.js
[...]

DEBUG [web server]: serving: /home/kausikram/lib/node_modules/karma/static/client.html
DEBUG [web server]: serving: /home/kausikram/lib/node_modules/karma/static/testacular.js
DEBUG [karma]: New browser has connected on socket s2jUXmnylvNYdQux4Wc2
WARN [launcher]: PhantomJS have not captured in 60000 ms, killing.
DEBUG [launcher]: Process PhantomJS exitted with code 1
ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start PhantomJS

DEBUG [launcher]: Cleaning temp dir /tmp/testacular-86450027
INFO [launcher]: Trying to start PhantomJS again.
DEBUG [launcher]: Creating temp dir at /tmp/testacular-86450027
DEBUG [launcher]: phantomjs /tmp/testacular-86450027/capture.js
DEBUG [web server]: serving: /home/kausikram/lib/node_modules/karma/static/client.html
DEBUG [web server]: serving: /home/kausikram/lib/node_modules/karma/static/testacular.js
DEBUG [karma]: New browser has connected on socket 3qsGGwLPK5ogNJs_4Wc3
WARN [launcher]: PhantomJS have not captured in 60000 ms, killing.
DEBUG [launcher]: Process PhantomJS exitted with code 1
ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start PhantomJS

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Created 10 years ago
Comments:105 (10 by maintainers)

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pawelszymanskicommented, Jul 23, 2014

Hey, all the people here: you are doing this so wrong!

The point is to test your app with Karma in real browsers, the one that your users use… unless you want your tests to have no value at all.

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allenhwkimcommented, Oct 19, 2016

I solved this issue by reinstalling node_modules

karma 
karma-chrome-launcher
karma-jasmine
karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor
karma-phantomjs-launcher
phantomjs

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