title: PhantomjsDriver not working on both Windows and Linux
body: <p>I have an application that uses Selenium Webdriver to get some information from a site. It works fine with FirefoxDriver and ChromeDriver, but when I tried to switch to PhantomJSDriver, I encountered some difficulties.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>On a Windows machine , it starts normally, then immediately begins spitting out the following lines over and over again:</li>
  </ol>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Jan 05, 2014 7:28:43 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryEx
    ecute
    INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request: The target server failed to respond</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is repeated probably several hundred times for about 10 minutes until it finally loads the page; sometimes it doesn't even manage to load it at all. </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>On a Linux machine, it tries to start, then returns the following:</li>
  </ol>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Exception in thread "thread1"
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not
    start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote
    server or browser start-up failure. Build info: version: 'unknown',
    revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown' System info: host: 'pangolin',
    ip: '128.238.32.20', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version:
    '2.6.32-39-generic', java.version: '1.7.0' Driver info:
    driver.version: PhantomJSDriver
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:548)
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:216)
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:111)
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:115)
            at org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriver.(PhantomJSDriver.java:107)
            at org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriver.(PhantomJSDriver.java:96)
             Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver
    server to start. Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown',
    time: 'unknown' System info: host: 'pangolin', ip: '128.238.32.20',
    os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '2.6.32-39-generic',
    java.version: '1.7.0' Driver info: driver.version: PhantomJSDriver
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:165)
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:62)
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:527)
            ... 7 more Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting
    for [http://localhost:16050/status] to be available after 20002 ms
            at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:104)
            at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:163)
            ... 9 more Caused by: com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedTimeoutException:
    java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
            at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
            at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:79)
            ... 10 more Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
            at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:258)
            at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:119)
            at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
            ... 11 more</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? I've read  a lot about how Phantomjs is so much faster than the other drivers, and would really like to use it, but if it takes 10 minutes to load each page, that's obviously not feasible.</p>
  
  <p>I am running Selenium WebDriver version 2.38.0 and Phantomjs version 1.9.2.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much in advance,
  bsg</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  Just to clarify, I don't think this has anything to do with my code; the errors on Linux are being thrown on the line where I try to start the PhantomJS driver, below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>   DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
      caps.setJavascriptEnabled(true);                       
      caps.setCapability(
          PhantomJSDriverService.PHANTOMJS_EXECUTABLE_PATH_PROPERTY,
          phantombinary//"/home/p/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs"
      );
  
      // Launch driver (will take care and ownership of the phantomjs process)
       WebDriver driver = new PhantomJSDriver(caps);
      System.out.println("starting driver");
  </code></pre>