Laravel Dusk error: Failed to connect to localhost port 9515: Connection refused

Question

As the title says, I've go a clean install of Laravel 5.4 and the latest Homestead (1.0.1). However, when I run a simple Dusk test case I get the following error:

Failed to connect to localhost port 9515: Connection refused

Anyone know how to deal with this? I tried changing the port to something else such as 8888 to no avail.

EDIT: I've been able to dig a little deeper and found out that the chromedriver executable was not actually executable (chmod). Now that I've fixed that I get this error when I manually try to run it.

./chromedriver: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

I had this issue today and the solution is on Laracasts.

Here's a copy.

# makes sure all your repos are up to date
sudo apt-get update

# chrome dependencies I think
sudo apt-get -y install libxpm4 libxrender1 libgtk2.0-0 libnss3 libgconf-2-4

# chromium is what I had success with on Codeship, so seemed a good option
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

# XVFB for headless applications
sudo apt-get -y install xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf

# fonts for the browser
sudo apt-get -y install xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base         xfonts-scalable

# support for screenshot capturing
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick x11-apps

# Once all this has run through, you need to fire up xvfb on your homestead box. If you’re planning to # do this on a regular basis, you’ll want to get this setup on boot, but for the sake of testing things out:
Xvfb -ac :0 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 &