Using AppiumDriverLocalService to run tests on IOS failed

TamirS · January 12, 2016, 3:36pm

Hi all,

I’m working with Appium for the past few months and everything worked really good.

My next goal is to run Appium from the command line, so i was following this tutorial : Start and Stop Appium Server Programmatically
the service runs and works good.

mAppiumService = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder()
		     .usingDriverExecutable(new File(appiumNodeFile))
		     .withAppiumJS(new File(appiumJSFile))
		     .withIPAddress(mAppiumServerAddress).usingPort(mAppiumServerPort));

where appiumNodeFile = /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node
appiumJSFile = /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js
and mAppiumService is an AppiumDriverLocalService object

I also have this method which runs @beforeSuite

public void startAppiumServer(String os){
	if(mAppiumService == null)
		launchAppiumServer(os);
	
	if(!mAppiumService.isRunning()){
		System.out.println(TAG + " Starting Appium Server....");
		mAppiumService.start();
		isServerRunning = true;
		
	}
	else{
		System.out.println(TAG + "Appium Server Is Already Running...");
	}
}

I set DesireCapabilities

/**
	 * set Appium Server settings
	 */
	private void setDesireCapabilities (){
		mCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
		mCapabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM, mPlatform);
		mCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, mFullAppPath); //new File("src",mFullAppPath).getAbsolutePAth());
		mCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, mServerTimeOut);
		mCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME,mDevice);
		if(mDeviceUDID != null && !mDeviceUDID.isEmpty())
			mCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.UDID,mDeviceUDID);
	}

and finally calling

mAppiumDriver = new IOSDriver(mAppiumService.getUrl(), mCapabilities);

I did installed ideviceinstaller using brew, it worked perfectly before,
However when running the test I get the following error(I marked relevant lines)

> path: /Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa
> Appium Manager Starting Appium Server....
> e[36minfoe[39m: Welcome to Appium v1.4.13 (REV c75d8adcb66a75818a542fe1891a34260c21f76a)
> e[36minfoe[39m: Appium REST http interface listener started on 127.0.0.1:4723
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Non-default server args: {"address":"127.0.0.1"}
> e[36minfoe[39m: Console LogLevel: debug
> e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m-->e[39m e[37mGETe[39m e[37m/wd/hub/statuse[39m e[90m{}e[39m
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.4.13","revision":"c75d8adcb66a75818a542fe1891a34260c21f76a"}}}
> e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m<-- GET /wd/hub/status e[39me[32m200e[39me[90m 7.603 ms - 105e[39m e[90m{"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.4.13","revision":"c75d8adcb66a75818a542fe1891a34260c21f76a"}}}e[39m
> In LoginTest [login With Valid Values]
> e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m-->e[39m e[37mPOSTe[39m e[37m/wd/hub/sessione[39m e[90m{"desiredCapabilities":{"app":"/Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa","udid":"d9da6062f6556b899c475159a5439a60ffe9857b","platformName":"iOS","deviceName":"REAL","newCommandTimeout":"120","platform":"iOS"}}e[39m
> e[36minfoe[39m: Client User-Agent string: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.1 (Java/1.8.0_65)
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] **The following desired capabilities were provided, but not recognized by appium. They will be passed on to any other services running on this server. : platform**
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Using local .ipa from desired caps: /Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Copying local zip to tmp dir
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] /Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa copied to /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/appium-app.zip
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Unzipping /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/appium-app.zip
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Testing zip archive: /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/appium-app.zip
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Zip archive tested clean
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Unzip successful
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Using locally extracted app: /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/Payload/Simgo.app
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Creating new appium session 0c4fe3ca-d39b-42e2-85f6-86c64015ff4f
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] **Removing any remaining instruments sockets**
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Auto-detecting iOS udid...
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Not auto-detecting udid, running on sim
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] **Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/Payload/Simgo.app/en.lproj/Localizable.strings**
**> e[36minfoe[39m: Will try to parse the plist file as XML**
**> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as XML) at /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/Payload/Simgo.app/en.lproj/Localizable.strings**
**> e[33mwarne[39m: Could not parse app Localizable.strings assuming it doesn't exist**
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Getting bundle ID from app
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/116012-11266-1scu5f7/Payload/Simgo.app/Info.plist
> e[36minfoe[39m: Will try to parse the plist file as XML
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Parsed app Info.plist (as XML)
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Creating instruments
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Preparing uiauto bootstrap
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap dir: /Users/nirberman/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic env: {"nodePath":"/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node","commandProxyClientPath":"/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/submodules/appium-uiauto/bin/command-proxy-client.js","instrumentsSock":"/tmp/instruments_sock","interKeyDelay":null,"justLoopInfinitely":false,"autoAcceptAlerts":false,"autoDismissAlerts":false,"sendKeyStrategy":"grouped"}
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap code: // This file is automatically generated. Do not manually modify!
> ...
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap path: /Users/nirberman/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-3279913f037ed65f.js
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Reusing dynamic bootstrap: /Users/nirberman/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-3279913f037ed65f.js
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] **Attempting iOS device log capture via libimobiledevice idevicesyslog**
**> e[33mwarne[39m: Could not capture device log using libimobiledevice idevicesyslog. Libimobiledevice probably isn't installed**
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Attempting iOS device log capture via deviceconsole
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Creating iDevice object with udid d9da6062f6556b899c475159a5439a60ffe9857b
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Couldn't find ideviceinstaller, trying built-in at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/libimobiledevice-macosx/ideviceinstaller
> e[31merrore[39m: **Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system**
**> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Cleaning up appium session**
**> e[31merrore[39m: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system**
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; **make sure it is installed and works on your system**
>     at [object Object].IOS.getIDeviceObj (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:909:13)
>     at [object Object].IOS.installToRealDevice (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:856:32)
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:607:21
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:246:17
>     at iterate (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:146:13)
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:157:25
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:248:21
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:612:34
>     at [object Object].<anonymous> (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios-crash-log.js:52:5)
>     at [object Object].<anonymous> (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios-crash-log.js:27:5)
>     at f (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/node_modules/once/once.js:17:25)
>     at Glob.<anonymous> (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:131:7)
>     at Glob.emit (events.js:107:17)
>     at Glob._finish (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:168:8)
>     at done (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:157:12)
>     at Glob._processReaddir2 (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:351:12)
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:288:17
>     at RES (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/node_modules/inflight/inflight.js:23:14)
>     at f (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/node_modules/once/once.js:17:25)
>     at Glob._readdirEntries (/applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:480:10)
>     at /applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/glob/glob.js:457:12
>     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:95:15)
> e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system)","origValue":"Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system"},"sessionId":null}
> e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m<-- POST /wd/hub/session e[39me[31m500e[39me[90m 1471.652 ms - 300e[39m e[90me[39m

Utility.PlatformDriver.AppiumManagerMethod: getDriver A new session could not be created. (Original error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 2.03 seconds
Build info: version: '2.48.2', revision: '41bccdd10cf2c0560f637404c2d96164b67d9d67'
System info: , os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5', java.version: '1.8.0_65'
Driver info: io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSDriver

as you can refer Its already installed

Thanks alot

wreed · January 12, 2016, 5:34pm

It’s a fairly common problem on this board. You don’t have ideviceinstaller on your $PATH. Here is a good guide to adding to your $PATH:

I also installed via brew, and the location on my machine is:

/usr/local/bin/ideviceinstaller

TamirS · January 13, 2016, 10:26am

Same Error
if I type echo $PATH the output is :/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin/ideviceinstaller

and the error remained

wreed · January 13, 2016, 9:01pm

I think that the first entry, /usr/local/bin: should cover it. You wouldn’t need :/usr/local/bin/ideviceinstaller. Typically the $PATH is a list of directories to search, not a direct path to a binary.

Could it be possible that you are running the server from a different login/user (such as the root user) whose $PATH is different than the one you are checking?

TamirS · January 14, 2016, 7:17am

Hi @wreed
It’s the same user, its really weird because when I run it with the GUI interface it works like a charm.

the node I use is /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node
I was trying several paths to the *.js files (main.js and appium.js)

same error. it just cant find the ideviceinstaller

wreed · January 14, 2016, 5:19pm

That is very strange. Could you try a little debugging? For example, I believe you are coding in Java. Could you make some system calls from your code? Specifically, something like:

String[] cmd1 = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "which ideviceinstaller" };
String[] cmd2 = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "echo $PATH" };

Process p1 = Runtime.getRuntime.exec(cmd1);
Process p2 = Runtime.getRuntime.exec(cmd2);

log.info p1
log.info p2

This will give you some insight into what these values are at runtime & maybe we can figure out what is going on. If you don’t have a logger you could just use System.out.println or something.

TamirS · January 20, 2016, 2:58pm

Hi,
sorry for late respond,
I was off for few days )

p1 returned an empty string, which means it has not found ideviceinstaller on runtime,
p2 returned /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin.

Tamir.

wreed · January 20, 2016, 5:19pm

Ok, so we know that $PATH is different on a test run than it is in your normal shell environment. You need to get ‘/usr/local/bin/’ into that $PATH for this to work. You could try one of the techniques in the article I had posted above as a system call at the beginning of your tests (like an ‘export /usr/local/bin/’ type of call) which would be a short term fix. For longer term you may want to try and figure out why this happens. The most obvious would be that it’s run as a different user (which you’ve said is untrue) or perhaps running under a different shell? I’m not sure. You could try something like this:

String[] cmd1 = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "whoami" };
String[] cmd2 = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "echo $SHELL" };

Process p1 = Runtime.getRuntime.exec(cmd1);
Process p2 = Runtime.getRuntime.exec(cmd2);

log.info p1
log.info p2

And see what results you get.

TamirS · January 21, 2016, 6:39am

Hi,

it’s weird , how are $PATH and bash_profile related to each other? when running the command: nano ~/.bash_profile
I see /usr/local/bin/ within the file.

I ran the commands you offered above,
p1 returned my username
p2 returned /bin/bash

should it be /bin/sh?

Thanks for you help, highly appreciated,
Tamir.

wreed · January 21, 2016, 4:45pm

I believe that bash_profile is used for an interactive shell. Also, I think it’s fine to run in /bin/bash. I found a pretty good explanation of the different bash files (& more) here:

I wonder if you put /usr/local/bin into .bashrc if it would work properly for you?

TamirS · January 24, 2016, 7:21am

Hi wreed,

I found the aforementioned file under /private/etc/bashrc but I’m not sure whether its the correct file or not. if so, I have no idea where I should insert this line.

Are you sure we are on the right path to solve this annoying issue?

Thanks,
Tamir.

wreed · January 25, 2016, 3:24am

No, I haven’t seen this exact thing. I’m volunteering this information, feel free to discard it.

.bashrc file goes into your home directory. I encourage you to read the link I sent you, and to do your own google search on .bashrc and what it’s for/how it’s used.

TamirS · January 31, 2016, 7:30am

I’ve read it,

I feel we are getting further from the solution

its so weird , when I run Appium from the GUI interface it works like a charm. while running it from cmd gives an error.

Tamir.

wreed · February 1, 2016, 9:20am

I wish you’d give some input as to why you feel this way. I feel I’ve done my best to help you, but you may not want this to work.

TamirS · February 3, 2016, 7:38am

Hi,
I have no complains to you my friend. I appreciate your concern.

as I mentioned, when running it from the GUI it works, it means that it runs in the background as expected.
correct me if Im wrong here.

Tamir.

wreed · February 3, 2016, 5:33pm

I don’t actually know how the GUI does what it does (I’m not a developer). I took a look at the source this morning:

But I don’t know how it picks up paths exactly. I also looked at defaults for appium:

defaults read com.appium.Appium

But that doesn’t really show much. I also opened up ~/Library/Preferences/com.appium.Appium.plist in Xcode which looks about the same.

So I would say that using the GUI and running on command line are very different. I still think that getting .bashrc in your home directory configured with /usr/local/bin should fix this.

TamirS · February 4, 2016, 8:59am

Ok,
Lets make it easier, since im not familiar with Mac Os that much.

I did not find /.bashrc under home directory but under /etc.
Found that post undertanding-bashrc-and-bash-profile

** my /.bashrc looks like that:**

   if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then
           return
        fi

        PS1='\h:\W \u\$ '
# Make bash check its window size after a process completes
shopt -s checkwinsize
# Tell the terminal about the working directory at each prompt.
if [ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "Apple_Terminal" ] && [ -z "$INSIDE_EMACS" ]; then
    update_terminal_cwd() {
        # Identify the directory using a "file:" scheme URL,
        # including the host name to disambiguate local vs.
        # remote connections. Percent-escape spaces.
	local SEARCH=' '
	local REPLACE='%20'
	local PWD_URL="file://$HOSTNAME${PWD//$SEARCH/$REPLACE}"
	printf '\e]7;%s\a' "$PWD_URL"
    }
    PROMPT_COMMAND="update_terminal_cwd; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
fi
								    
# Paths
PATH=$PATH:${HOME}/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

my /.bash_profile looks like that:

   export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home
    export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/adt/sdk
    export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/nirberman/sdk
    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

trying to run Appium from command line, I’ve got this output,

Appium Manager Starting Appium Server....
e[36minfoe[39m: Welcome to Appium v1.4.16 (REV ae6877eff263066b26328d457bd285c0cc62430d)
e[36minfoe[39m: Appium REST http interface listener started on 127.0.0.1:4723
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Non-default server args: {"address":"127.0.0.1"}
e[36minfoe[39m: Console LogLevel: debug
e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m-->e[39m e[37mGETe[39m e[37m/wd/hub/statuse[39m e[90m{}e[39m
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.4.16","revision":"ae6877eff263066b26328d457bd285c0cc62430d"}}}
e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m<-- GET /wd/hub/status e[39me[32m200e[39me[90m 7.564 ms - 105e[39m e[90m{"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.4.16","revision":"ae6877eff263066b26328d457bd285c0cc62430d"}}}e[39m
In LoginTest [login With Valid Values]
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m-->e[39m e[37mPOSTe[39m e[37m/wd/hub/sessione[39m e[90m{"desiredCapabilities":{"app":"/Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa","udid":"d9da6062f6556b899c475159a5439a60ffe9857b","platformName":"iOS","deviceName":"REAL","newCommandTimeout":"120","platform":"iOS"}}e[39m
e[36minfoe[39m: Client User-Agent string: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.1 (Java/1.8.0_65)
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] The following desired capabilities were provided, but not recognized by appium. They will be passed on to any other services running on this server. : platform
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Using local .ipa from desired caps: /Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Copying local zip to tmp dir
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] /Users/nirberman/automation/SimgoApp/SimgoAppUtilities/files/Simgo.ipa copied to /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/appium-app.zip
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Unzipping /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/appium-app.zip
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Testing zip archive: /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/appium-app.zip
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Zip archive tested clean
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Unzip successful
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Using locally extracted app: /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/Payload/Simgo.app
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Creating new appium session bb55ed1c-aa49-4f8e-ae44-b7d09f9da14b
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Removing any remaining instruments sockets
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Auto-detecting iOS udid...
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Not auto-detecting udid, running on sim
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/Payload/Simgo.app/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
e[36minfoe[39m: Will try to parse the plist file as XML
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as XML) at /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/Payload/Simgo.app/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
e[33mwarne[39m: Could not parse app Localizable.strings assuming it doesn't exist
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Getting bundle ID from app
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/11614-76897-rxzayv/Payload/Simgo.app/Info.plist
e[36minfoe[39m: Will try to parse the plist file as XML
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Parsed app Info.plist (as XML)
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Creating instruments
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Preparing uiauto bootstrap
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap dir: /Users/nirberman/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic env: {"nodePath":"/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node","commandProxyClientPath":"/Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-uiauto/bin/command-proxy-client.js","instrumentsSock":"/tmp/instruments_sock","interKeyDelay":null,"justLoopInfinitely":false,"autoAcceptAlerts":false,"autoDismissAlerts":false,"sendKeyStrategy":"grouped"}
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap code: // This file is automatically generated. Do not manually modify!
...
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap path: /Users/nirberman/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-f08a474a5b9b593b.js
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Reusing dynamic bootstrap: /Users/nirberman/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-f08a474a5b9b593b.js
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Attempting iOS device log capture via libimobiledevice idevicesyslog
e[33mwarne[39m: Could not capture device log using libimobiledevice idevicesyslog. Libimobiledevice probably isn't installed
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Attempting iOS device log capture via deviceconsole
e[31merrore[39m: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
e[33mwarne[39m: Could not capture logs from device. Continuing without capturing logs.
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Creating iDevice object with udid d9da6062f6556b899c475159a5439a60ffe9857b
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Couldn't find ideviceinstaller, trying built-in at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/build/libimobiledevice-macosx/ideviceinstaller
e[31merrore[39m: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
e[31merrore[39m: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system
    at [object Object].IOS.getIDeviceObj (/Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:909:13)
    at [object Object].IOS.installToRealDevice (/Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:856:32)
    at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:607:21
    at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:246:17
    at iterate (/Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:146:13)
    at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:157:25
    at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:248:21
    at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:612:34
    at [object Object].<anonymous> (/Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios.js:1555:14)
    at /Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:890:21
    at [object Object]._onTimeout (/Users/nirberman/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios-log.js:166:7)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:119:15)
e[36minfoe[39m: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system)","origValue":"Could not initialize ideviceinstaller; make sure it is installed and works on your system"},"sessionId":null}
e[36minfoe[39m: e[37m<-- POST /wd/hub/session e[39me[31m500e[39me[90m 10488.599 ms - 300e[39m e[90me[39m

please go over the output and let me know if you had noticed something.

Thanks!

wreed · February 4, 2016, 7:15pm

That’s ok. You can create it yourself.

So I’m going to just going to give very basic instructions.

open up a terminal window
you should be in your home directory, type ‘pwd’ just to make sure
type ‘ls -a’ and make sure there isn’t a ‘.bashrc’ file
I’m assuming that there is not one since you said that, so type ‘vi .bashrc’ ← don’t forget the ‘.’ in front!
type ‘a’ <-this puts you in append mode in vi
cut the following and paste it into the vi session:

hit the escape button to leave append mode
Type ‘ZZ’ to write the file and quit

Now you should be able to to an ‘ls -a’ and see .bashrc in your home directory. Try running your appium commands and I think this will help. To debug, can you add the debugging code that we added before:

Then just reply back here. Fingers crossed!

TamirS · February 7, 2016, 7:46am

Hi Wreed,

Thank you for fast respond,

I created the file ‘.bashrc’ as you wrote.
when debugging it, I still dont get the right path
P1 prints nothing
P2: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

when running the first command from the terminal I do get the right path. so it does exist.
“/usr/local/bin/ideviceinstaller”

I think its something with the shell.

I printed out all system environment parameters:

Key: APP_ICON_83481 Value: ../Resources/Eclipse.icns
Key: PATH Value: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Key: SHELL Value: /bin/bash
Key: USER Value: nirberman
Key: TMPDIR Value: /var/folders/bj/mf99ylxd2k3g11msm3s4tw5c0000gn/T/
Key: JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_32429 Value: org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG
Key: SSH_AUTH_SOCK Value: /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.mrr1BsCZbO/Listeners
Key: XPC_FLAGS Value: 0x0
Key: APP_ICON_83467 Value: ../Resources/Eclipse.icns
Key: __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING Value: 0x1F5:0x0:0x0
Key: JAVA_STARTED_ON_FIRST_THREAD_83467 Value: 1
Key: Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render Value: /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.67B0bWhI0h/Render
Key: LOGNAME Value: nirberman
Key: XPC_SERVICE_NAME Value: 0
Key: HOME Value: /Users/nirberman

as you can see the PATH does not contain '/usr/local/bin’
after running echo $PATH the output is:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/nirberman/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

(I dont know why it is replicated several times)

when calling ‘cat /etc/paths’ I get:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

wreed · February 8, 2016, 11:25pm

I agree with that!

Can I ask (and I’m sorry for not asking this earlier) if you are running this in an IDE? For some reason I’ve been thinking this is just a command line run, but your environment variables contain several Eclipse references…