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Bug 377284

Summary: Tests failing on Chrome and Firefox
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component: RelengAssignee: John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P3    
Version: 0.4   
Target Milestone: 0.5 M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description John Arthorne CLA 2012-04-20 09:04:38 EDT
The Orion tests on build.eclipse.org are failing to start browsers:

 [apply] Caused by:
    [apply] java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed after 3 tries.
    [apply] Failure 1: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not start browser CommandLineBrowserRunner [
    [apply] browserPath=/shared/common/firefox-10.0/firefox,
    [apply] process=java.lang.UNIXProcess@5ff6de1,
    [apply]  process log={
    [apply] error:
    [apply] [B@4486d1da
    [apply] input:
    [apply] Failure 2: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not start browser CommandLineBrowserRunner [
    [apply] browserPath=/shared/common/chrome-12.0.742.60/google-chrome,
    [apply] process=java.lang.UNIXProcess@646d6aa0,
    [apply]  process log={
    [apply] error:
    [apply] [B@4b7361e2[B@4b7361e2
    [apply] input:
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2012-04-20 11:12:24 EDT
I was able to login to the build machine with an x-session and launch both firefox and chrome. On firefox there was a prompt on startup that some plugins were out of date. After confirming that, there was a web page saying that firefox itself needed to be updated. I don't know if this is the cause of the problem in the tests but I have installed Firefox 11 and switched the tests to run that.

For Chrome, there was no special prompt on startup. The fact that both Chrome and Firefox failed at once makes me suspicious of some other environment change on the build machine, but I'll try another build now and see what happens.
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2012-04-20 12:37:42 EDT
I've been banging my head on this with no luck. I am able to manually start these browsers logged in as e4Build, but during the tests it fails to start the browsers. Trying a brand new fresh install of Firefox 11 resulted in the same errors.

Webmaster has there been any configuration changes on build.eclipse.org in the past day or so (installing/upgrading packages, etc)? Any change that would prevent us opening and communicating on certain ports (we are using 42442 for these tests).
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2012-04-20 13:19:53 EDT
Argh, after three failures in a row, the tests started passing again with no change on my part. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it is an ongoing intermittent failure.
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2012-04-24 17:07:58 EDT
This hasn't come back.