SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new service: GeckoDriverService with Selenium Grid on Ubuntu failing to drive Firefox

Question

I fail to drive Firefox from Selenium with geckodriver. This is odd, because chrome is driven with same framework without errors!

These are my Version numbers:

Answer 1

A few words about Selenium Grid Configuration:

• You mentioned your Test Bed as selenium-server-standalone-3.7.1.jar and client-combined-3.5.3-nodeps.jar. As per Best Practices, you should use either of the following not both

• Always try to use the latest released version i.e. selenium-server-standalone-3.7.1.jar

• In selenium_grid.sh: you need to change the following :

  java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=/opt/selenium/geckodriver