Phantomjs cannot start

Question

I used AngularJS in my project and karma for testing. Then I set up karma as follows:

config.set({ basePath: '../', frameworks: ['jasmine'], files: [ // bower:js 'bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js', 'bower_components/angular/angular.js', 'bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js', 'bower_components/angular-animate/angular-animate.js', 'bower_components/angular-cookies/angular-cookies.js', 'bower_components/angular-route/angular-route.js', 'bower_components/angular-sanitize/angular-sanitize.js', 'bower_components/angular-mocks/angular-mocks.js', // endbower 'js/**/*.js', 'test/spec/**/*.js' ], browsers: [ 'PhantomJS' ], plugins: [ 'karma-phantomjs-launcher', 'karma-jasmine' ], port: 8890 }) 

And shake like this:

 grunt.initConfig({ connect: { testserver: { options: { base: 'js/', hostname: 'localhost', port: '8889' } } }, karma: { unit: { configFile: './test/karma-unit.conf.js', singleRun: true } } }); grunt.registerTask('test', ['connect', 'karma:unit']); 

When I type 'grunt test', the console shows that phantomjs cannot start:

 Running "connect:testserver" (connect) task Started connect web server on http://localhost:8889 Running "karma:unit" (karma) task INFO [karma]: Karma v0.12.31 server started at http://localhost:8890/ INFO [launcher]: Starting browser PhantomJS ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start PhantomJS INFO [launcher]: Trying to start PhantomJS again (1/2). ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start PhantomJS INFO [launcher]: Trying to start PhantomJS again (2/2). ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start PhantomJS ERROR [launcher]: PhantomJS failed 2 times (cannot start). Giving up. Warning: Task "karma:unit" failed. Use --force to continue. Aborted due to warnings. 

How can i solve this? Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

I came across this too, it seemed like the problem is that karma-phantomjs2-launcher is looking for the phantomjs executable. It uses PHANTOMJS_BIN to run phantomjs, so I solved it as follows:

 export PHANTOMJS_BIN=/usr/local/bin/phantomjs 

For now, you can also run "phantomjs" from the command line, and this works, perhaps it is possible.

Answer 2

Install libfontconfig. Assuming you are on ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig

This resolved it for me.

Answer 3

Upgrade karma-phantomjs-launcher to version 1.0.2 in package.json and reinstall the package.

Answer 4

Maybe this helps someone. Suddenly I received the same console messages for no good reason, I just stopped and wanted to restart it.

I npm remote karma and reinstalled karma.

Answer 5

If you installed the Chrome browser on your computer, switch to it.

In the array of browsers, write Chrome instead of PhantomJS, and in the array of plugins use karma-chrome-launcher.
"karma-chrome-launcher is available as another node package, it must be installed.

 browsers: [ 'Chrome' ], plugins: 'karma-chrome-launcher', 'karma-jasmine' ],