Executing RobotFramework test cases from putty? #179

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1. HelioGuilherme66 commented on Mar 5, 2013

   

   HelioGuilherme66

   on Mar 5, 2013

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   I would use SSHLibrary to get the files from the Linux machine. (You can
   even package them in a Zip file and unzip in windows),

   If you really need to have Linux graphical windows you need to have putty
   to forward X11, and a X11 windows server like XMing. This looks like a very
   complicated setup.

   Are the tests specific for Windows?

   Helio

   On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:06 PM, PriyaAn notifications@github.com wrote:

   The test cases are kept in linux machine and i am trying to execute them
   from Windows machine using putty.But i am getting the an exception:

   UL1 | FAIL |
   WebDriverException: Message: 'The browser appears to have exited before we
   could connect. The output was: Error: no display specified\n'

   Kindly help me in resolving the issue,if possible?

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2. PriyaAn commented on Mar 5, 2013

   

   PriyaAn

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   Actually i want to execute the test cases on another machine(Linux) but from putty.The browser should be launched on the linux machine but the command for execution is being send from putty.
   As of now if i execute from putty i am getting the above exception.
3. HelioGuilherme66 commented on Mar 5, 2013

   

   HelioGuilherme66

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   To troubleshoot that,
   make sure that the graphical environment is working in the Linux machine,
   this is run the tests from a local console. If that is working, then is
   putty not correctly set.

   There is a DISPLAY environment variable to tell Linux where windows should
   be presented.

   My guess is that roboframework is loosing context. (I do not even know if
   it is possible to do what you want, but I'm not expert).

   On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:25 PM, PriyaAn notifications@github.com wrote:

   Actually i want to execute the test cases on another machine(Linux) but
   from putty.The browser should be launched on the linux machine but the
   command for execution is being send from putty.
   As of now if i execute from putty i am getting the above exception.

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4. rsq647 commented on Jul 30, 2013

   

   rsq647

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   you may try 'xvfb-run'
5. just-be-dev commented on May 6, 2015

   

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   It's probably because the linux box didn't have an active display and thus couldn't activate the webdriver. One method to get around this would be to test using the phantomjs webdriver which is headless. Otherwise you'll need to investigate X11 forwarding over an SSH tunnel.
6. just-be-dev

   closed this as completedon May 6, 2015