Unable to launch Appium Inspector or Appium Ruby Console on IOS App

Issues/Bugs
1

Hello,

I’m having problems with starting a appium(Version 1.4.13 (Draco)) session for anative IOS app. The problem is specific to this particular app, other Apps are working fine.
Getting the following log output:

info: [debug] [INST] 2016-01-05 12:39:59 +0000 Debug: Running system command #5: /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/submodules/appium-uiauto/bin/command-proxy-client.js /tmp/instruments_sock 2,{“status”:0,“value”:{“UIAApplication”:{"@":{“name”:null,“label”:null,“value”:null,“dom”:null,"enabled…

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: App did not have elements

info: [debug] Socket data received (208 bytes)
info: [debug] Socket data being routed.
info: [debug] Got result from instruments: {“status”:0,“value”:{“UIAApplication”:{"@":{“name”:null,“label”:null,“value”:null,“dom”:null,“enabled”:false,“valid”:false,“visible”:false,“hint”:null,“path”:"/0",“x”:0,“y”:0,“width”:0,“height”:0},">":[]}}}
info: [debug] Condition unmet after 12586ms. Timing out.
info: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
info: [debug] Error: App did not have elements
at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:483:30
at Object.cb [as callback] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios-controller.js:261:7)
at next (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:798:43)
at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:16
at [object Object].exports.respond (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/common.js:28:9)
at [object Object]. (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:1498:18)
at getResultAndSendNext (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/submodules/appium-uiauto/lib/command-proxy.js:146:20)
at Socket. (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/submodules/appium-uiauto/lib/command-proxy.js:88:7)
at Socket.emit (events.js:129:20)
at _stream_readable.js:908:16
at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:381:11)
info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {“status”:33,“value”:{“message”:“A new session could not be created. (Original error: App did not have elements)”,“origValue”:“App did not have elements”},“sessionId”:null}

Any help would be very much appreciated :slightly_smiling:

2

Have you tried adding the following capabilities:

caps.setCapability("autoAcceptAlerts", true);
caps.setCapability("waitForAppScript", true);
3

@Telmo_Cardoso

Just in curiosity…what those capabilities do ??

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Hi,

check them all with description in here:

http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?java#ios-only

5

Thanks for your answer. Didn’t resolve my issue though.
The problem was (according to our ios developer) some weird caching inside ios. Deleting the app from the simulator (or device) prior to starting the appium session fixed the problem.

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Thanks @Telmo_Cardoso