When attempting to execute selenium on a VPS for running tests in Python, I encountered an issue. Here's the Python code snippet:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.log.level = 'trace'
selenium = Firefox(firefox_options=options)
However, upon execution of the script, an error occurs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
...
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused
Although Firefox starts successfully, it becomes inaccessible after Python raises an exception rendering it useless.
In the geckodriver.log file, the following log entries are recorded:
1540423460336 geckodriver INFO geckodriver 0.21.0
...
New connections will no longer be accepted
Are there any alternative debugging methods you can suggest for troubleshooting this issue?
The current environment setup is as follows: Python 2.7
Selenium 3.14.1
Firefox 59.0.2 (errors also occur with ff62)
Geckodriver 0.21 (similar errors persist with version 0.23)