[Tutor] selenium programs stopped working

[Benjamin Fishbein]

I think you're right: Firefox may have automatically updated itself.
I checked and I was using Selenium 2.29
The most recent is 2.33
So I downloaded the newest one and did 
pip install -U selenium
in terminal but I got this:

Installing collected packages: selenium
  Found existing installation: selenium 2.29.0
    Uninstalling selenium:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 107, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 261, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1162, in install
    requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 495, in uninstall
    paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 1492, in remove
    renames(path, new_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pip/util.py", line 273, in renames
    shutil.move(old, new)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 290, in move
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 249, in rmtree
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 247, in rmtree
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium-2.29.0-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt'

Is it saying that 2.29 isn't letting itself be upgraded? Will I have to completely delete Selenium from my computer and then reinstall it with the updated one?
Ben


On Jun 4, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Walter Prins wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 4 June 2013 02:27, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbein79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> WebDriverException: Message: "Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /var/folders/vm/8th3csp91qb47xbhqhb4gcmh0000gn/T/tmpPeqacA Firefox output: *** LOG addons.xpi: startup\n*** LOG addons.xpi: Skipping unavailable install location app-system-share\n*** LOG addons.xpi: checkForChanges\n*** LOG addons.xpi: No changes found\n"
> 
> That there is your problem.  There's several instances of this problem on the net if you google e.g. "Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /var/folders" as a search string.
> 
> The gist of it seems to me to be usually a firefox/selenium version mismatch of some sort.  Has firefox been updated recently?  Have you checked if there's any updates available for selenium?
> 
> See for example:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/splinter-users/MAP8yyVhqic
> 
> 
> Walter
> 

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