1296552 - error: Found argument '--webdriver-port' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Amod Mahajan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

public class FirefoxBrowser 
{
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Users\\Amod Mahajan\\workspace\\Selenium Project\\exefiles\\geckodriver.exe");
		WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();
	}
}


Actual results:

error: Found argument '--webdriver-port' which wasn't expected, or isn't valid in this context

USAGE:
    geckodriver.exe [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

For more information try --help
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '3.0.0-beta1', revision: '8e4315c', time: '2016-07-28 18:04:05 -0700'
System info: host: 'DESKTOP-G2E94QN', ip: '172.16.2.152', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_101'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:670)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:247)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:130)
	at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:231)
	at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:219)
	at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:214)
	at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:210)
	at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:123)
	at General_Programms.FirefoxBrowser.main(FirefoxBrowser.java:11)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:2172 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] failed: Connection refused: connect
Build info: version: '3.0.0-beta1', revision: '8e4315c', time: '2016-07-28 18:04:05 -0700'
System info: host: 'DESKTOP-G2E94QN', ip: '172.16.2.152', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_101'
Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:91)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:649)
	... 8 more
Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:2172 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] failed: Connection refused: connect
	at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:158)
	at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:353)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:380)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:236)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:184)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:88)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
	at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:184)
	at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:71)
	at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:55)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.fallBackExecute(ApacheHttpClient.java:142)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.execute(ApacheHttpClient.java:88)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:142)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
	... 9 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
	at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:85)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
	at org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainConnectionSocketFactory.java:74)
	at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:141)
	... 22 more



Expected results:

Firefox browser should open.

Comment 1

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

The issue is filed in github issues.
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/154
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/2544

both of them are already closed, try updating your copy.