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Saturday, September 4, 2010

How to shut down Selenium Server if it is already running on port 4444

There are chances that when you are running tests, the server might not be shutdown properly. In this case, when you try to re-run your tests, you may encounter the following error

java.net.BindException: Selenium is already running on port 4444. Or some other service is.
    at org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer.start(SeleniumServer.java:399)
    at login.testLogin(login.java:17)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:168)
    at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:134)
    at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110)
    at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128)
    at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113)
    at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:232)
    at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:227)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.OldTestClassRunner.run(OldTestClassRunner.java:76)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:45)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

Solution for the above problem is , type the below in the browser URL and the server will be stopped
http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDownSeleniumServer
Now your should be able to see the message "OKOK" in the browser window
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6 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 15, 2011 at 1:07 AM

    hey that solved a problem i had in orphaned server instances running. Thank you for your post.

    -devi

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  2. TheCrazyGuyOctober 1, 2011 at 6:48 AM

    Or what you can even do is -
    DefaultSelenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium(....);
    ...
    ..
    teardown()
    {
    selenium.shutDownSeleniumServer();
    selenium.stop();
    seleniumServer.stop();
    }

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  3. NareshkumarFebruary 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM

    I am getting this error with the URL provided:

    ERROR: ERROR: No sessionId provided. Most likely your original newBrowserSession command failed.

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  4. AnonymousApril 3, 2013 at 9:22 PM

    i am still not able to shut down selenium however i am getting that "OKOK" on browser

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  5. E.H.March 11, 2014 at 2:56 AM

    Cool, this helped me out. Thanks!

    ReplyDelete
  6. UnknownOctober 29, 2015 at 12:57 PM

    Thanks! That helped.

    ReplyDelete

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