chromedriver_2.25 breaks support with Travis Chromium

[filipesilva]

Heya,

Yesterday, chromedriver_2.25 became the default when using webdriver-manager update. It seem to have dropped support for Chromium 51.0.2704, which is the latest available on travis using "Trusty beta" (the most recent image available).

Here are two example travis logs from https://github.com/angular/quickstart:
New, broken CI run: https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/170052868/log.txt
Old, working CI run: https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/169864190/log.txt

The workaround for now should to be to pin the version by using the --versions.chrome=2.24 flag. But when doing so, protractor will still try to use the latest version even though 2.24 is the only one downloaded:

$ npm run e2e
> angular-quickstart@1.0.0 pree2e /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart
> npm run webdriver:update
> angular-quickstart@1.0.0 webdriver:update /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart
> webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome=2.24
[12:34:45] I/file_manager - creating folder /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium
[12:34:45] I/downloader - selenium standalone: downloading version 2.53.1
[12:34:45] I/downloader - curl -o /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.53/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar
[12:34:45] I/downloader - chromedriver: downloading version 2.24
[12:34:45] I/downloader - curl -o /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24linux64.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.24/chromedriver_linux64.zip
[12:34:45] I/downloader - geckodriver: downloading version v0.9.0
[12:34:45] I/downloader - curl -o /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/geckodriver-v0.9.0-linux64.tar.gz https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.9.0/geckodriver-v0.9.0-linux64.tar.gz
[12:34:45] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24linux64.zip
[12:34:45] I/update - chromedriver: setting permissions to 0755 for /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24
[12:34:46] I/update - geckodriver: unzipping /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/geckodriver-v0.9.0-linux64.tar.gz
[12:34:46] I/update - geckodriver: setting permissions to 0755 for /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/geckodriver-v0.9.0
> angular-quickstart@1.0.0 e2e /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart
> tsc && concurrently "http-server -s" "protractor protractor.config.js" --kill-others --success first
[1] [12:34:50] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...
[1] [12:34:50] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[1] [12:34:50] E/direct - Error code: 135
[1] [12:34:50] E/direct - Error message: Could not find chromedriver at /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.25
[1] [12:34:50] E/direct - Error: Could not find chromedriver at /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.25
[1]     at Direct.getNewDriver (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/built/driverProviders/direct.js:65:27)
[1]     at Runner.createBrowser (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:198:43)
[1]     at /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:285:30
[1]     at _fulfilled (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/q/q.js:834:54)
[1]     at self.promiseDispatch.done (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/q/q.js:863:30)
[1]     at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/q/q.js:796:13)
[1]     at /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/q/q.js:556:49
[1]     at runSingle (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/q/q.js:137:13)
[1]     at flush (/home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/q/q.js:125:13)
[1]     at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
[1] [12:34:50] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 135
[1] protractor protractor.config.js exited with code 135
--> Sending SIGTERM to other processes..
[0] http-server -s exited with code 0

Pinning protractor@4.0.9 also did not work, it still tries to use chromedriver_2.25. Explicitly adding webdriver-manager@10.2.5 (the previous version) does not work either, since protractor@4.0.10 still looks for chromedriver_2.25.

Using both protractor@4.0.9 and webdriver-manager@10.2.5 does work however:

$ npm run e2e
> angular-quickstart@1.0.0 pree2e /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart
> npm run webdriver:update
> angular-quickstart@1.0.0 webdriver:update /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart
> webdriver-manager update
[13:10:59] I/file_manager - creating folder /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium
[13:10:59] I/downloader - selenium standalone: downloading version 2.53.1
[13:10:59] I/downloader - curl -o /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.53/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar
[13:10:59] I/downloader - chromedriver: downloading version 2.24
[13:10:59] I/downloader - curl -o /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24linux64.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.24/chromedriver_linux64.zip
[13:10:59] I/downloader - geckodriver: downloading version v0.9.0
[13:10:59] I/downloader - curl -o /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/geckodriver-v0.9.0-linux64.tar.gz https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.9.0/geckodriver-v0.9.0-linux64.tar.gz
[13:10:59] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24linux64.zip
[13:10:59] I/update - chromedriver: setting permissions to 0755 for /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24
[13:11:00] I/update - geckodriver: unzipping /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/geckodriver-v0.9.0-linux64.tar.gz
[13:11:00] I/update - geckodriver: setting permissions to 0755 for /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/geckodriver-v0.9.0
> angular-quickstart@1.0.0 e2e /home/travis/build/angular/quickstart
> tsc && concurrently "http-server -s" "protractor protractor.config.js" --kill-others --success first
[1] [13:11:05] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...
[1] [13:11:05] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[1] AppDir: ./
[1] Started
[1] 
[1]   Suite: QuickStart E2E Tests
[1] .
[1]     passed - should display: My First Angular App
[1]   Suite passed: QuickStart E2E Tests
[1] 
[1] 
[1] 
[1] 1 spec, 0 failures
[1] Finished in 1.543 seconds
[1] 
[1] [13:11:07] I/launcher - 0 instance(s) of WebDriver still running
[1] [13:11:07] I/launcher - chrome #01 passed
[1] protractor protractor.config.js exited with code 0
--> Sending SIGTERM to other processes..
[0] http-server -s exited with code 0

Is there a better way to support travis?

[filipesilva]

To summarise, as the original post was rather exploratory:

• the most recent version of travis uses chrome 51
• protractor uses webdriver-manager, which downloads chrome-driver (any version)
• each version of chrome-driver can connect to a range of chrome versions
• the newest chrome-driver can only connect to chrome 53 and up
• and, this is the last piece, and the real problem: protractor will only use the version of chrome-driver specified in an internal config

[cnishina]

Fix for now to upgrade Protractor to the latest: angular/quickstart#273

We'll keep an eye on this for the next release for chromedriver.

[cnishina]

@filipesilva are there any updates with this using chromedriver 2.26?

[filipesilva]

@cnishina sorry, I should have closed this earlier. Newer versions of protractor fix the issue presented here, and I can verify they are using chromedriver 2.26.