Tests with phantomjs - sometimes green sometimes red.

[panSarin]

About 50% times when i run my test it return ok, but in other 50% times it is failure.
Sometimes with:

     Failure/Error: click_button 'Lorem'
     Capybara::Poltergeist::DeadClient:
       PhantomJS client died while processing {"name":"click","args":[3,3]}

and sometimes even earlier with:

     Failure/Error: visit some_path(@some.id)
     Capybara::Poltergeist::DeadClient:
       PhantomJS client died while processing {"name":"visit","args":["http://localhost:54544/some_path/4"]}

Any ideas?

[szymon-przybyl]

Maybe this will help you: ariya/phantomjs#11252

[yaauie]

@panSarin Can you upgrade your phantomjs to ~> 1.9.1 and report back on whether or not that fixed the flapping?

[Karueglazki]

Hello.
sorry, i have the same problem.
phantomjs 1.9.1

[oelmekki]

I often have this kind of error on my CI server too (not 50% of time,
though, more something like 10%).

Obviously, this is just a symptom (potentially even different
problems). I can't remember seeing it happen locally (but then again,
I don't run the whole integration suite much locally). Could it be
related to whatever allows poltergeist to run without a X server
running ?

Anyway, as it happens on CI, I can't provide a --seed option to rspec
to run in the same order again and see if it is reproducible. I usually
just try again and it passes. If anyone has an idea of what I could do
to have useful info, it would be great.

[rileytg]

I'm also getting a roughly 10% failure on Travis CI

[salimane]

+1

[morgandonze]

I'm experiencing this problem too.

[karolxavierleite]

+1

I'm having the same problem. I'm using poltergeist with Capybara.

My versions:
poltergeist: 1.5.0
phantomJS: 1.9.7
capybara: 2.2.1

[cassioscabral]

+1

I'm having the same problem. I'm using poltergeist with Capybara.

My versions:
poltergeist: 1.4.1
phantomJS: 1.9.8
capybara: 2.1.0

[pahlawat]

+1
Having same issue, tests run locally but not running on CI

[khaidpham]

+1
Was having the same issue with poltergeist 1.5.1 and phantomJS 1.9.8, phantomJS crashed when visit() certain sites with some js errors
However, after uninstalling phantomJS 1.9.8 and install the latest phantomJS 2.0, visiting the same sites no longer crash phamtomJS

[hamza88]

Tried downgrading to Phantomjs to 1.9.8 whilst using capybara 2.2.1 and Poltergeist 1.5.1 ... no luck. Have experimented with versions.

Still getting inconsistent results ...

[pixelpax]

I upgraded to PhantomJS 2.0 (compiled from source on Ubuntu) and it finally works! Tried six other version combinations with no luck. I am sometimes getting a 'Timeout Error'. Will continue experimenting with other versions of Capybara and Poltergeist.

Capybara 2.4.4
Poltergeist 1.6.0
PhantomJS 2.0.0

[Dfenniak]

I have the exact versions mentioned above and I'm still seeing the issue.

[twalpole]

I'm closing this due to the age of the original issue and the fact no one has actually posted any real details about the issues or a reproducible test case - If anyone is having actual issues, please open a new issue with real details about all versions used, details of the tests that are failing, and if possible a reproducible minimal test case