Selenium 3.0 with gecko driver fails org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException:

[Deepa Padmanabhan]

Unable to create a session with selenium 3.0 while using mozilla  gecko driver

starting selenium using 

java -jar -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=geckodriver selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar 

and I get the following exception while creating a session. A session is not getting established

Here is a similar question on stackoverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40106844/selenium-3-0-firefx-driver-fails-with-org-openqa-selenium-sessionnotcreatedexcep

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:48:19 -0700'

System info: host: 'SFO-MBP-PADMANABHAN', ip: '172.24.4.52', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5', java.version: '1.8.0_101'

Driver info: driver.version: unknown

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.execute(DefaultSession.java:183)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.<init>(DefaultSession.java:119)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.createSession(DefaultSession.java:95)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverSessions.newSession(DefaultDriverSessions.java:131)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.NewSession.handle(NewSession.java:59)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.NewSession.handle(NewSession.java:36)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.rest.ResultConfig.handle(ResultConfig.java:111)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.JsonHttpCommandHandler.handleRequest(JsonHttpCommandHandler.java:189)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DriverServlet.handleRequest(DriverServlet.java:222)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DriverServlet.doPost(DriverServlet.java:184)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DriverServlet.service(DriverServlet.java:150)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:808)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:587)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:310)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:540)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635)

at org.seleniumhq.jetty9.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:48:19 -0700'

System info: host: 'SFO-MBP-PADMANABHAN', ip: '172.24.4.52', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5', java.version: '1.8.0_101'

Driver info: driver.version: unknown

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.callConstructor(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:96)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.newInstance(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:64)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverFactory.newInstance(DefaultDriverFactory.java:60)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:222)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:209)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1.run(DefaultSession.java:176)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)

... 1 more

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.callConstructor(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:86)

... 9 more

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{name=Functional\Tests\Login\BasicLoginUITest::testLoginInvalidUsername, firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@cd1fe70, browserName=firefox, moz:firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@cd1fe70}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}]

Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:48:19 -0700'

System info: host: 'SFO-MBP-PADMANABHAN', ip: '172.24.4.52', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5', java.version: '1.8.0_101'

Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:91)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:128)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:259)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:247)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:242)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:135)

... 14 more

14:32:55.530 WARN - Exception: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{name=Functional\Tests\Login\BasicLoginUITest::testLoginInvalidUsername, firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@cd1fe70, browserName=firefox, moz:firefoxOptions=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions@cd1fe70}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}]