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“I am trying to use the Headless gem to run my selenium tests via an xvfb session on an ubuntu machine. The xvfb session is being launched correctly on display port 99 screen 0 but I am getting the following error from selenium:”

18:08:31.410 ERROR - Failed to start new browser session, shutdown browser and clear all session data
org.openqa.selenium.server.RemoteCommandException: timed out waiting for window 'null' to appear

“here is how I am running Headless:”

require 'headless'
headless = Headless.new
puts "starting Headless session on display: #{headless.display}"
headless.start
begin
  puts "rake spec:integration"
  Rake::Task['spec:integration'].execute
ensure
  puts "stopping Headless"
  headless.destroy
end

Has anybody out there had any luck with this?

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