Issues with running protractor for angular-phonecat tutorial

[nonnycode]

I have installing protractor following the steps indicated in the tutorial for the angular-phonecat project.

I get this weird error.

rea51:angular-phonecat nonnycode$ sudo npm run protractor

> angular-...@0.0.0 preprotractor /Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat

> npm run update-webdriver

> angular-...@0.0.0 preupdate-webdriver /Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat

> npm install

npm WARN cannot run in wd angular-...@0.0.0 bower install (wd=/Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat)

> angular-...@0.0.0 update-webdriver /Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat

> webdriver-manager update

selenium standalone is up to date.

chromedriver is up to date.

> angular-...@0.0.0 protractor /Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat

> protractor test/protractor-conf.js

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PID: 498 (capability: chrome #1)

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Using ChromeDriver directly...

Cannot read property 'matcherFn_' of undefined

[launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 1

npm ERR! angular-...@0.0.0 protractor: `protractor test/protractor-conf.js`

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR! 

npm ERR! Failed at the angular-...@0.0.0 protractor script.

npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,

npm ERR! not with npm itself.

npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:

npm ERR!     protractor test/protractor-conf.js

npm ERR! You can get their info via:

npm ERR!     npm owner ls angular-phonecat

npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Darwin 12.5.0

npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "protractor"

npm ERR! cwd /Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.22

npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! 

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:

npm ERR!     /Users/nonnycode/Documents/lab/angular-phonecat/npm-debug.log

npm ERR! not ok code 0

[Alexander Petty]

I too am getting a similar error on Ubuntu 14.04. Here is the output:

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alex@blackhole9:~/dev/angular-phonecat$ npm run update-webdriver

> angular-...@0.0.0 preupdate-webdriver /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> npm install

> angular-...@0.0.0 postinstall /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> bower install

> angular-...@0.0.0 update-webdriver /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> webdriver-manager update

selenium standalone is up to date.

chromedriver is up to date.

alex@blackhole9:~/dev/angular-phonecat$ npm run protractor

> angular-...@0.0.0 preprotractor /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> npm run update-webdriver

> angular-...@0.0.0 preupdate-webdriver /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> npm install

> angular-...@0.0.0 postinstall /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> bower install

> angular-...@0.0.0 update-webdriver /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> webdriver-manager update

selenium standalone is up to date.

chromedriver is up to date.

> angular-...@0.0.0 protractor /home/alex/dev/angular-phonecat

> protractor test/protractor-conf.js

------------------------------------

PID: 15822 (capability: chrome #1)

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Using ChromeDriver directly...

Cannot read property 'matcherFn_' of undefined

[launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 1

npm ERR! weird error 1

npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"

npm WARN For further explanations, please read

/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

 

npm ERR! not ok code 0

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Neither

(1)  Creating a soft link node to nodejs

ln -s [the path of nodejs] /usr/bin/node 

or 

(2) Installing the node legacy package

 sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy. 

worked for me...

Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this?

I'd love to get started using protractor but am blocked by this error that I can't seem to work around.

Let me know.

Thanks,

Alex

[nonnycode]

I have been able to solve this problem by going into the test directory and running protractor directly.

area51:test nonnycode$ protractor protractor-conf.js

Using ChromeDriver directly...

Finished in 0.005 seconds

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures

area51:test nonnycode$ 

[Alexander Petty]

When I try that, I get:

--

alex@blackhole9:~/dev/angular-phonecat/test$ protractor protractor-conf.js

Using ChromeDriver directly...

[launcher] Error: Could not find chromedriver at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/selenium/chromedriver.exe

--

Maybe I need to put "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/selenium/chromedriver.exe" in my PATH..

I will give that a shot..

-Alex

[Joosa Kurvinen]

I was getting the same error as OP. I tried then "npm install protactor", after which the error changed to:

Using ChromeDriver directly...

Cannot read property 'matcherFn_' of undefined

[launcher] Runner Process Exited With Error Code: 1

npm ERR! angular-...@0.0.0 protractor: `protractor test/protractor-conf.js`

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Failed at the angular-...@0.0.0 protractor script.

npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the angular-phonecat package,

npm ERR! not with npm itself.

  ....

npm ERR! not ok code 0

[epano...@gmail.com]

On Friday, June 13, 2014 4:21:04 PM UTC+3, nonnycode wrote:

The following solution help me:
https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/906

[patl]

For me the solution was to downgrade minijasminenode as detailed in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24217987/end-to-end-testing-with-protractor-giving-error

[Mark Lovett]

This solution worked for me on OSX 10.9.5

[Bolan Oluwa]

I changed the package.json file by by updating protractor to 1.1.1 version from version 1.0.0 and this worked. I actually got the lead from protractor github page. I hope this helps.