René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Crappy error message when smoketest before-hook crashes","articleBody":"My Ubuntu 15.04 automatically upgraded Firefox to v38.0, which breaks the selenium smoke tests.\nThe selenium-bug is already reported to Selenium, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/437.\n\n_This issue_ isn't with selenium though, but with **the crappy error messages** in the smoke tests, and I know how you feel about crappy error messages :).\n\nFirst time I run the smoke tests I get:\n\n```\nmattias@maas-linux-1:~/git/lets_code_javascript$ ./jake.sh loose=true smoketest\nCollating client files: .\nBundling client files with Browserify: ..\nSmoke testing app:\n\n\n  ․․\n\n  1 passing (2s)\n  1 failing\n\n  1) Smoke test \"before all\" hook:\n     Uncaught Error: Failed to install profile; firefox terminated with Result(code=null, signal=SIGSEGV)\n      at Error (native)\n      at Array.forEach (native)\n  From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()\n      at src/_smoke_test.js:26:14\n      at Socket.\u003canonymous\u003e (src/_run_server.js:18:55)\n      at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:163:16)\n      at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:126:10)\n      at Pipe.onread (net.js:538:20)\n```\n\nThis message isn't the worst I've seen. At least it mentions both _firefox_ and _WebDriver_. If I re-run the command though (which I often tend to do when I'm unfocused), the server on port 5000 hasn't shutdown correctly and I instead get:\n\n```\nmattias@maas-linux-1:~/git/lets_code_javascript$ ./jake.sh loose=true smoketest\nCollating client files: .\nBundling client files with Browserify: ..\nSmoke testing app:\n\n\n  ․․\n\n  1 passing (11s)\n  1 failing\n\n  1) Smoke test \"before all\" hook:\n     Error: timeout of 10000ms exceeded. Ensure the done() callback is being called in this test.\n```\n\nNow it takes 10 seconds to time out and the error message is really vague. It wasn't obvious to me I suddenly had an abandoned server running on port 5000.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/aquamoth","@type":"Person","name":"aquamoth"},"datePublished":"2015-05-19T19:00:52.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/7/lets_code_javascript/issues/7"}