I’m using Appium 1.3.1, Xcode 6.1 on iPhone 5s. I ran into this problem recently, can’t find solution so far so I’m posting it here. Please help me out, tks!
error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
Full log:
info: Client User-Agent string: Apache-HttpClient/4.3.3 (java 1.5)
info: [debug] App is an iOS bundle, will attempt to run as pre-existing
info: [debug] Creating new appium session b551593a-599e-48a1-88cc-f65905eec655
info: [debug] Removing any remaining instruments sockets
info: [debug] Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock
info: [debug] Setting Xcode folder
info: [debug] Setting Xcode version
info: [debug] Setting iOS SDK Version
info: [debug] Getting sdk version from xcrun with a timeout
info: [debug] iOS SDK Version set to 8.1
info: [debug] Not checking whether simulator is available since we're on a real device
info: [debug] Detecting automation tracetemplate
info: [debug] Not auto-detecting udid, running on sim
info: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/com.app.Application/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
info: Will try to parse the plist file as XML
info: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as XML) at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/com.app.Application/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
warn: Could not parse app Localizable.strings; assuming it doesn't exist
info: [debug] Creating instruments
info: On some xcode 6 platforms, instruments-without-delay does not work. If you experience this, you will need to re-run appium with the --native-instruments-lib flag
info: [debug] Preparing uiauto bootstrap
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap dir: /Users/thain/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap
info: [debug] Dynamic env: {"nodePath":"/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node","commandProxyClientPath":"/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-uiauto/bin/command-proxy-client.js","instrumentsSock":"/tmp/instruments_sock","interKeyDelay":null,"justLoopInfinitely":false,"autoAcceptAlerts":false}
`parseFileSync()` is deprecated. Use `parseStringSync()` instead.
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap code: // This file is automatically generated. Do not manually modify!
...
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap path: /Users/thain/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-60f23230385b0cfa.js
info: [debug] Reusing dynamic bootstrap: /Users/thain/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-60f23230385b0cfa.js
info: [debug] Getting device string from opts: {"forceIphone":false,"forceIpad":false,"xcodeVersion":"6.1","iOSSDKVersion":"8.1","deviceName":"iPhone","platformVersion":null}
info: [debug] fixDevice is on
info: [debug] Final device string is: 'iPhone (8.1 Simulator)'
info: [debug] Not setting device type since we're on a real device
info: [debug] Checking whether we need to set app preferences
info: [debug] Not setting iOS and app preferences since we're on a real device
info: [debug] Running ios sim reset flow
info: [debug] Killing the simulator process
info: [debug] Killall iOS Simulator
info: [debug] Killing any other simulator daemons
info: [debug] On a real device; cannot clean device state
info: [debug] Not setting locale because we're using a real device
info: [debug] No iOS / app preferences to set
info: [debug] Starting iOS device log capture via deviceconsole
info: --> GET /wd/hub/status {}
info: [debug] Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.3.1","revision":"1160ce02bb89c354cb99317985123acf39f0e7d3"},"isShuttingDown":false},"sessionId":"b551593a-599e-48a1-88cc-f65905eec655"}
info: <-- GET /wd/hub/status 200 1.833 ms - 178 {"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.3.1","revision":"1160ce02bb89c354cb99317985123acf39f0e7d3"},"isShuttingDown":false},"sessionId":"b551593a-599e-48a1-88cc-f65905eec655"}
error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
info: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
info: [debug] Error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
at null._onTimeout (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios-log.js:106:10)
at Timer.listOnTimeout [as ontimeout] (timers.js:112:15)
info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time)","origValue":"Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time"},"sessionId":null}
info: <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 11091.342 ms - 234
info: [debug] Not pre-launching simulator
info: [debug] Creating iDevice object with udid a4a1b7ef1ff4e9cdb3f0e6c6a86ba4999fe5b5
info: [debug] Couldn't find ideviceinstaller, trying built-in at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/libimobiledevice-macosx/ideviceinstaller
info: [debug] Checking app install status using: /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/fruitstrap/fruitstrap isInstalled --id a4a1b7ef1ff4e9cdb3f0e6c6a86ba4999fe5b5 --bundle com.app.Application