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Hello,<br><br>I'm using selenium rc for automated testing on a centos box.<br><br>working on the box itself has no problem as long as i start the server through terminal.<br><br>though if i wanted to run tests remotely i have a problem with firefox not knowing on which display to run.<br><br>i have a vnc client running on port 1 (5801/5901)<br><br>I've tried the following:<br><br>export DISPLAY=1 ; java -jar selenium-server.jar > /opt/selenium/Logs/logs.txt # through ssh session though that didn't work<br><br><br>the only way to initiate it properly is to connect through vnc, open a terminal and type : java -jar $PWD/selenium-server.jar<br>though i don't know how to automate this.<br><br>so i thought of setting this in xstartup # vnc's startup for display 1<br><br>as such:<br><br><br> 1 #!/bin/sh<br> 2 <br> 3 # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:<br> 4 unset SESSION_MANAGER<br> 5 exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc<br> 6 while true ;do sh /opt/scripts/rc; done &<br> 7 [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup<br> 8 [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources<br> 9 xsetroot -solid grey<br> 10 vncconfig -iconic &<br> 11 xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &<br> 12 twm &<br><br>]# more /opt/scripts/rc<br>java -jar /opt/selenium/selenium-server.jar > /opt/selenium/Logs/logs.txt<br><br><br>Though that isn't working either, and still the firefox profile doesnt know where to start.<br><br>this is the error :<br><br><br>PHPUnit_Framework_Exception: Response from Selenium RC server for getNewBrowserSession(*firefox, http://www.test.com).<br>Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser.<br><br><br>any help to automate the startup on display 1 would be greatly appreciated<br><br> </body>
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