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Selenium server (ver. 2) has stopped working for me for unknown reasons (see Selenium (RC) stops working...). I'd like to stop Selenium sever and restart it. When I enter "http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=shutDown" into the address bar of a browser on the machine running Selenium server, I get a blank screen in the browser window. If I try to wget that address, the command line says no data received. If I run:
ps aux | grep sel
It shows that Selenium server is still running. Any ideas?

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If you are using Windows, see if this post helps you:


For UNIX / Linux, find the process Id (PID) corresponding to the selenium server, and kill the process

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Ah, thanks. Didn't know why I didn't think of that. I finally just started selenium server on another port... –  danwoods Jun 23 '11 at 21:37
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