Could not prepare mobile safari with version '8'

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Hi,
Am getting bellow error when running on Simulator8

info: Welcome to Appium v1.2.2 (REV cf6ff5939ddc6b4d45fcbabfbfe13c950e0058c4)

info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
info: [debug] Non-default server args: {“safari”:true,“browserName”:“Safari”,“defaultDevice”:true,“showSimulatorLog”:true,“defaultCommandTimeout”:7200}
warn: Deprecated server args: {"–show-sim-log":“use instead: --show-ios-log”}
info: LogLevel: debug

info: --> GET /wd/hub/status {}

info: [debug] Responding to client with success: {“status”:0,“value”:{“build”:{“version”:“1.2.2”,“revision”:“cf6ff5939ddc6b4d45fcbabfbfe13c950e0058c4”}}}

info: <-- GET /wd/hub/status 200 5.933 ms - 104 {“status”:0,“value”:{“build”:{“version”:“1.2.2”,“revision”:“cf6ff5939ddc6b4d45fcbabfbfe13c950e0058c4”}}}

info: --> POST /wd/hub/session {“desiredCapabilities”:{“platformVersion”:“8”,“platformName”:“iOS”,“deviceName”:“iPhone Simulator”,“browserName”:“safari”}}

info: [debug] Configuring Safari session

info: [debug] Trying to use mobile safari, version 8
info: [debug] Looking for built in app MobileSafari

info: [debug] Got configuration error, not starting session

info: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
info: [debug] Error: ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’

error: Could not prepare mobile safari with version ‘8’: Error: ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’

info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {“status”:33,“value”:{“message”:“A new session could not be created. (Original error: ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’)”,“errno”:34,“code”:“ENOENT”,“path”:"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications",“origValue”:“ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’”},“sessionId”:null}
info: <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 13.506 ms - 567

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’

2

This version of Appium does’t support iOS8, please update to the latest version 1.3beta.

3

I just downloaded 1.3beta how to run appium1.3? i don’t find .app file. Please help

4

Sorry I am on Windows here :frowning:
Are you sure you downloaded the Mac release and not the Windows release???

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I downloaded it from https://github.com/appium/appium/releases/tag/v1.3.0-beta1

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This is the source code of the Appium server and not the .app file you are looking for. It came to my attention that they haven’t released a new .app file for the 1.3beta version. You will have to wait for it to be built or run from the source instead.

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can you help me how to run from source? i did
npm install -g appium
appium &
it gave me something 3849 appium:command not found

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Try these steps in order to run from source (make sure to grab the ios8 branch aka “1.3 beta” )

  1. git clone -b ios8 https://github.com/appium/appium.git
  2. cd appium
  3. ./reset.sh --iOS
  4. sudo ./bin/authorize-iso.js
  5. node bin/appium.js -p 4724
  6. point your tests to run against hostname:4724
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Thanks I followed the steps and i got below error when opened IOS Simulator and passed these Caps

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(“deviceName”, “iPhone 5”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformName”, “iOS”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformVersion”, “8”);
capabilities.setCapability(“browserName”, “safari”);
IOSDriver driver= new IOSDriver(new URL(“http://0.0.0.0:4724/wd/hub”), capabilities);

	 driver.get("http://www.google.com");

ERROR:
error: Could not prepare mobile safari with version ‘8’: Error: ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’
info: [debug] Got configuration error, not starting session
info: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: ENOENT, stat ‘/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.sdk/Applications’

Please help!

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Sorry resolved the issue. My bad i was still running 1.2.4.
Thanks for your help @jserene and @Hassan_Radi

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But, how to open an inspector window from command prompt?