org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot create temp directory

[Sudhanshu Arjunwar]

I am trying to execute on Grid configuration by using Remote Webdriver but my test cases are not executing and throwing below error, same test case were working as expected till yesterday.

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot create temp directory: C:\Users\qgrid.gen\AppData\Local\Temp\2\3e493aa5-27e0-4c02-8848-91c032882eef

Please help me on this.

[Slavik Fursov]

I have this exception, when my disk was full.
For some reason, I have few thousand folders in:

C:\Users\sadmin\AppData\Local\Temp\

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

What version of Selenium are you working with ?

Can you please help add more context ? [ Am guessing that you must be working with Firefox automation ]

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[Slavik Fursov]

>> What version of Selenium are you working with ?
>> Can you please help add more context ? [ Am guessing that you must be working with Firefox automation ]

Selenium Grid 2.51.0
- Hub on Ubuntu 14.04
- Nodes are Win8.1 systems
- Firefox 44

Script running org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:2.45.0

>dir C:\Users\sadmin\AppData\Local\Temp\
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9129238222514818414duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9129125124478287787duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9128586371826051119duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver912799813584407614duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9121008256015158442duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9120132625482783920duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9117463352141053593duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9116260784300205172duplicated
20/05/2016  10:04    <DIR>          webdriver9116192311537483073duplicated

[Slavik Fursov]

Looks like, this issue reported in GH:
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-google-code-issue-archive/issues/1934

[Slavik Fursov]

And possibly fixed here:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/1679

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Slavik,

The issue that you pointed out to was a memory leak. I remember it very well because I sent a Pull Request to have it fixed. I don't know for sure if it is related to the File System problem that you are having.  

You mentioned that on your client side you are working with 2.45.0.

The fix that you called out was merged after 2.45.0 was released. So maybe you could bump up your version and try.

And going by the output that you shared, am guessing that you are experiencing the problem at the client side [ you mentioned your grid/node setup runs on linux ]. So I think you should definitely bump up your client side versions and try again.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Slavik Fursov <slav...@gmail.com> wrote:

And possibly fixed here:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/1679

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[Slavik Fursov]

Not sure, if it directly related,

But my issue was fixed by resetting WMI.

You can see it's status in:

Computer Management -> Services and Applications -> WMI Control -> Properties -> General

For the problem node it was in the state: "WMI: Not found"

Fixed by running this in elevated powershell:

 Stop-Service winmgmt -Force; winmgmt /resetrepository

`

After that, the node is not generating all these temp files.