Selenium Webdriver Chromedriver timeout on start in headless mode
Chrome 38 does not work when running as system user in Session 0. Normally this occurs because Chrome is launched by a Windows service - in your case Jenkins which is run as a service. This is a known issue. See Selenium issues here and here.
Two solutions:
- Downgrade Chrome to a version less than 38.
- Download and install AlwaysUp and configure it to run your Jenkins service as a user other than default system user
The AlwaysUp solution definitely works but has a small licencing cost, or if you're not bothered about the Chrome version you can downgrade it.
Chrome cannot run in headless mode in windows.you need to use HTMLdriver for this.
If you badly needs it, you need to try setup a vnc server and run within it.http://www.installationpage.com/selenium/how-to-run-selenium-headless-firefox-in-ubuntu/
The answer by SDET helped me (upvoted), Session 0 was my problem, but you don't need AlwaysUp, you can just launch the jenkins slave from some startup script by: javaws http://<jenkins-master>/computer/<node-name>/slave-agent.jnlp