Help needed for this error - "The driver executable does not exist: C:\selenium\gecko\geckodriver"

[Vlatko Stoimenovski]

I'm getting this error message : 

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable does not exist: C:\selenium\gecko\geckodriver

at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:199)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.checkExecutable(DriverService.java:121)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:116)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService.access$000(GeckoDriverService.java:37)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(GeckoDriverService.java:95)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:296)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.createCommandExecutor(FirefoxDriver.java:277)

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:238)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:127)

at attempt.AttemptClass.main(AttemptClass.java:13)


And I have gecko driver in c:/selenium/gecko/geckodriver      

Any advice?

This is my code: 

package attempt;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class AttemptClass {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver" , "C:\\selenium\\gecko\\geckodriver");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://www.toolsqa.com");

System.out.println("Successfully opened website www.Store.Demoqa.com ");

Thread.sleep(5);

driver.quit();

}

}

[Harry King]

Assuming the file is in the location, it looks like you are missing the .exe extension - Try using C:\selenium\gecko\geckodriver.exe

[Vlatko Stoimenovski]

I tried that too

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Please check if this helps : http://stackoverflow.com/a/15218949/679824

It is also possible that sometimes this error can come up due to permission issues as well (Java is NOT able to access this file due to permission differences of the file vs the permissions that are available for the Java process)

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[Vlatko Stoimenovski]

...but when i add one more .exe (example: System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C://selenium/gecko/geckodriver.exe.exe"); ) it gives me new error. I think I'm a step closer to a solution. Now I have to deal with this error :

    C:\selenium\gecko\geckodriver.exe.exe [OPTIONS]

C:\selenium\gecko\geckodriver.exe.exe: Unknown option --port=20070

XII 12, 2016 4:12:33 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession

INFO: Attempting bi-dialect session, assuming Postel's Law holds true on the remote end

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:20070 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] failed: Connection refused: connect

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[Anish Pillai]

Hi,

The correct way is one in which you add .exe at the end.
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver" , "C:\\selenium\\gecko\\geckodriver.exe");

Not sure if its related to some permissions error on C:\. Also, I'm assuming that you are using the latest versions of Firefox, Geckodriver and Selenium.


Can you also try adding geckodriver in environment variables and see if it helps? This way you would not need the to use System.setProperty() method. Check below article for the steps -

http://www.automationtestinghub.com/selenium-3-0-launch-firefox-with-geckodriver/


Cheers,
Anish

[Vlatko Stoimenovski]

Anish thanks for your response. 

Changing "webdriver.gecko.driver" with "webdriver.firefox.marionette" saved my life! example:

Correct

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette","C://selenium/gecko/geckodriver.exe");

Not correct

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C://selenium/gecko/geckodriver.exe");

thanks and best regards to all of you.
Vlatko.

[Vlatko Stoimenovski]

Now the browser opens but that's it. Doesn't open the page I would like to be opened (in this case youtube.com)with this error msg: "org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException:
Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output: \e10sr...@mozilla.org.xpi".  Here is screenshot from my code.

[Anish Pillai]

Cool.. :) :)

Can you also please let us know the versions of Selenium,GeckoDriver and Firefox you were using? Earlier versions used to work with "webdriver.firefox.marionette" and the latest versions didn't seem to have any problem with "webdriver.gecko.driver"

[Vlatko Stoimenovski]

Firefox version --> 50.1.0
Selenium version --> 3.0.1
Gecko driver --> v0.11.1

[smita shelke]

Hi,

Even I am facing the same problem, what solution u found can you please share.

[snigdha narain]

help needed ,i m nt able to run the same code for Mac 

package website;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

 public class Neddoc {

 

public static void main(String[] args) {

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/Users/sn‌​igdhanarain/Document‌​s/geck");

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

  driver.get("google.com");

}

}

Firefox version :55.0.3 (64-bit)

Selenium : Eclipse IDE for Java Developers

Version: Neon.2 Release (4.6.2)

Build id: 20161208-0600

Geckdriver :v0.18.0 

[L K]

You saved my life. Thanks

[John Acosta]

I tried "webdriver.firefox.marionette"  but it just opens a blank page and times out... Did anyone find out how to do this?

[Devendra Agarwal]

Kindly check the version of the gecko driver. Is it compatible with the firefox as well as there is proper handshake b/w the driver and browser. 

Rgds,

Deven

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[D@nny Ruttle]

Do you need to add the file extension .exe. ??

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