Failed to start protractor 5.0.0 with specifying Selenium server Jar option

[IgalOre]

Bug report

• Node Version: 6.9.1
• Protractor Version: 5.0.0
• Angular Version: 1.5.8
• Browser(s): IE 32bit, 11
• Operating System and Version Windows 7 SP1 64 bit
• Your protractor configuration file

exports.config = {
    seleniumServerJar: '../../node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar',
    specs: ['**/*-spec.js'],
    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:3000',
    directConnect: false,
    capabilities: {
        browserName: 'internet explorer'
    },
    // localSeleniumStandaloneOpts: {
    //     /**
    //      * Additional command line jvm options to pass to selenium. For example,
    //      * if you need to change the browser driver, use
    //      * jvmArgs: ['-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=IEDriverServer_Win32_2.53.1.exe']
    //      */
    //     jvmArgs: '-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=../../node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/IEDriverServer_Win32_2.53.1.exe'
    //   },
    jvmArgs: '-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=../../node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/IEDriverServer_Win32_3.0.0.exe',
    onPrepare: function() {
        'use strict';
        var reporters = require('jasmine-reporters');
        jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new reporters.TeamCityReporter());
        var junitReporter = new reporters.JUnitXmlReporter({savePath: 'test/coverage/protractor/', filePrefix: 'UI-TEST-results'});
        jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(junitReporter);
    }
};

• A relevant example test
• Output from running the test

[16:02:47] Starting 'protractor-run'...
[16:02:48] D/launcher - Running with --troubleshoot
[16:02:48] D/launcher - Protractor version: 5.0.0
[16:02:48] D/launcher - Your base url for tests is http://localhost:3000
[16:02:48] I/local - Starting selenium standalone server...
[16:02:48] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
(node:15908) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: Server terminated early with status 1
[16:02:50] E/launcher - BUG: launcher exited with 1 tasks remaining
[16:02:50] Protractor run failed with code : 100
[16:02:50] Finished 'protractor-run' after 2.31 s

Process finished with exit code 0

• Steps to reproduce the bug
  Attempt to start Protractor suite with protractor script
  .\node_modules.bin\protractor test\protractor\protractor-ci.conf.js --troubleshoot

• The URL you are running your tests against (if relevant)

I also attempted to put jvmArgs config parameter inside localSeleniumStandaloneOpts, but obtained same result.

If removing jvmArgs obtained next output:

[16:12:32] Starting 'protractor-run'...
[16:12:33] D/launcher - Running with --troubleshoot
[16:12:33] D/launcher - Protractor version: 5.0.0
[16:12:33] D/launcher - Your base url for tests is http://localhost:3000
[16:12:33] I/local - Starting selenium standalone server...
[16:12:33] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[16:12:33] I/local - Selenium standalone server started at http://172.16.202.79:57869/wd/hub
[16:12:34] E/launcher - The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
[16:12:34] E/launcher - WebDriverError: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property; for more information, see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver. The latest version can be downloaded from http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
    at WebDriverError (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:27:5)
    at Object.checkLegacyResponse (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:505:15)
    at parseHttpResponse (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:509:13)
    at doSend.then.response (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:440:13)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
    at Function.createSession (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver.js:777:24)
    at createDriver (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\index.js:167:33)
    at Builder.build (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\index.js:632:14)
    at Local.getNewDriver (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\protractor\lib\driverProviders\driverProvider.ts:57:29)
    at Runner.createBrowser (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\protractor\lib\runner.ts:187:39)
    at driverprovider_.setupEnv.then (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\protractor\lib\runner.ts:279:27)
    at _fulfilled (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\q\q.js:834:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\q\q.js:863:30)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\q\q.js:796:13)
    at C:\Source\Git\ui-commons\ui_s6_11178\ui-widgets\node_modules\q\q.js:604:44
[16:12:34] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199
[16:12:34] Protractor run failed with code : 199
[16:12:34] Finished 'protractor-run' after 1.96 s

Process finished with exit code 0

[heathkit]

I suspect the issue is that the selenium server is failing to start, but we don't relay the error message properly. If I had to take a guess, I'd suggest trying something like jvmArgs: ['-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=./IEDriverServer_Win32_3.0.0.exe'], since I think the path to IEDriverServer needs to be relative to the jar. Also, note that jvmArgs needs to be an array.

We should handle the promise rejection, though. Should be a quick fix.

[IgalOre]

Argh, you are absolutely correct, should pay for glasses to see better what it is written on documentation site, it's the array notation that were missing out there ...
thank you @mgiambalvo !
Tested and with correction working ....

[heathkit]

Glad it's working. Also, the best way to do this is probably to use webdriver-manager, which comes bundled with Protractor.

webdriver-manager update --ie32 --versions.ie 3.0.0 --versions.standalone 3.0.1
webdriver-manager start --ie32 --versions.ie 3.0.0 --versions.standalone 3.0.1

[IgalOre]

For your comment about using webdriver-manager, i had encountered another issue that java process created not shutdown correctly with shutdown command... For a moment i had posed question on SO . Would need to create another bug report. I were not sure if it's issue of Protractor or Selenium...