I faced a similar problem a long while back - intermittently, when starting a new browser immediately after closing another, I would get an OLE exception.
I never found the root cause, but if I remember correctly, I noticed that iexplore.exe continued to run for a short time after I called IE#close. So I tried doing the following, which solved the problem: - Start the browser, let its tests run, close the browser - Begin a loop that waits for iexplore.exe to exit - Don't start the next browser instance until iexplore.exe is gone This may not work for you if you need to have more than one browser running. But for me it was fine since I can only run one window at a time. :) Thanks Bill On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:23 AM, pallavi shashidhar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi There, > We have a couple of watir scripts that are run as regression suite on a CI > server (cruise control). > Have installed Ruby 1.8.6.26 and watir 1.6 with IE7. > System specification ; windows server 2003 edition, 500gb, 4gb RAM > > All the scripts are made independent and hence we have a start_browser and > browser.close at setup and teardown. > After a while, i find that ie keeps hanging and am not able to proceed > unless i close the browser manually and yet i see that the ie process is not > being killed. > This leads us to lot of RPC server unavailable errors: > > When the suite is run again, i get a lot of these errors: > > failed to create WIN32OLE object from `InternetExplorer.Application' > HRESULT error code:0x80004005 > Unspecified error (WIN32OLERuntimeError) > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:167:in > `initialize' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:167:in > `new' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:167:in > `create_browser_window' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:91:in > `_new_window_init' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:81:in > `new_window' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:105:in > `start_window' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:99:in > `start' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/commonwatir-1.6.2/lib/watir/browser.rb:71:in > `start' > > Have tried one of the 3 solutions that Bret has mentioned i.e, > Create an additional IE. As long as this lives, the IE server will continue > to live and you can close and create IE windows without worry. > > Inspite of having done this, i get the errors. We cannot completely avoid > opening and closing of browsers as more and more scripts are added to the > regression suite. > What could be the reason for ie to hang and how can that be avoided? > > Regards, > Pallavi > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
