Error launching IE browser | Selenium Forum
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Ramya S Posted on 11/09/2019

Hi Team,

I am getting the following error trying to launch IE browser, could you please assist me with this?

Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit)
3.14.0.0
Listening on port 29656
Only local connections are allowed
Sep 11, 2019 4:08:46 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Attempting bi-dialect session, assuming Postel's Law holds true on the remote end
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
Sep 11, 2019 4:08:47 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Falling back to original OSS JSON Wire Protocol.
Sep 11, 2019 4:08:48 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Falling back to straight W3C remote end connection
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{ensureCleanSession=true, browserName=internet explorer, version=, platform=WINDOWS}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}]
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:43:45 -0700'
System info: host: 'DESKTOP-QJH0F76', ip: '10.202.170.102', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_201'
Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:91)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:227)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:180)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:172)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:144)
at Homepage.Base.main(Base.java:23)


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Ashish Thakur Replied on 11/09/2019

Please use the latest version of Selenium along with the updated version of IE Driver. In addition to all this, please set protected mode to off in security settings of IE


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Ramya S Replied on 24/09/2019

I tried the same. It does not work still.


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Ashish Thakur Replied on 24/09/2019

Please share the exception stack trace after the update


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Ramya S Replied on 24/09/2019

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{ensureCleanSession=true, browserName=internet explorer, version=, platform=WINDOWS}], required capabilities = Capabilities [{}]
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:43:45 -0700'
System info: host: 'DESKTOP-QJH0F76', ip: '10.202.170.89', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_201'
Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:91)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:227)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:180)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:172)
at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:144)
at Homepage.Base.main(Base.java:23)


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Ramya S Replied on 24/09/2019

Thanks a lot Team. By using latest version of Selenium the issue has been resolved. I forgot to remove the old jar files. Thanks a lot for your help :)