Timothy Jones - 16/Jan/08 01:08 PM I had this problem with Windows 2000/IE6 in a VM, and I was able to proceed once I patched my copy like this: Index: server-coreless/src/main/java/org/openqa/selenium/server/browserlaunchers/InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.java =================================================================== --- server-coreless/src/main/java/org/openqa/selenium/server/browserlaunchers/InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.java (revision 2116) +++ server-coreless/src/main/java/org/openqa/selenium/server/browserlaunchers/InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.java (working copy) @@ -177,7 +177,17 @@      public void launch(String url) {          try { - if (WindowsUtils.thisIsWindows()) { + log.info("launch(" + url + ")..."); + log.info("WindowsUtils.thisIsWindows(): " + WindowsUtils.thisIsWindows() ); + log.info("System.getProperty('os.name'): '" + System.getProperty("os.name") + "'" ); + log.info("System.getProperty('os.name').equals('Windows 2000') == false: " + (System.getProperty("os.name").equals("Windows 2000") == false)); + log.info("System.getProperty('noKillableProcess') == null: " + (System.getProperty("noKillableProcess") == null)); + boolean useKillableProcess = WindowsUtils.thisIsWindows() && + System.getProperty("os.name").equals("Windows 2000") == false && + System.getProperty("noKillableProcess") == null; + log.info("useKillableProcess: "+ useKillableProcess ); + + if (useKillableProcess ) {                  backupRegistrySettings();                  changeRegistrySettings();                  File killableProcessWrapper = new File(customProxyPACDir, "killableprocess.exe"); It checks for os.name == Windows 2000 (you can check for 2003 also) or the System property -DnoKillableProcess=anything. If either of these are true, then it does not call killableprocess.exe. Feel free to include something like this in the next release. tlj

lost_traveller - 30/Jan/08 07:05 AM I have also suffered from this problem, would appear that killableprocess.exe does not work with win2000 for details see: http://forums.openqa.org/message.jspa?messageID=31022#31022 I hope this patch makes it into the next release.

lost_traveller - 29/Feb/08 07:28 AM Actually the code that worked for me was: because changeRegistrySettings() needs to be outside the useKillableProcess block private static boolean useKillableProcess = WindowsUtils.thisIsWindows()          && System.getProperty("os.name").equals("Windows 2000") == false          && System.getProperty("noKillableProcess") == null;     public void launch(String url)    {       try       {          if (WindowsUtils.thisIsWindows())          {                backupRegistrySettings();                changeRegistrySettings();             if (useKillableProcess)             {                File killableProcessWrapper = new File(customProxyPACDir, "killableprocess.exe");                ResourceExtractor.extractResourcePath(InternetExplorerCustomProxyLauncher.class,                      "/killableprocess/killableprocess.exe", killableProcessWrapper);                cmdarray = new String[] { killableProcessWrapper.getAbsolutePath(), commandPath,                      "-new", url};             }             else             {                // DGF IEs4Linux, perhaps? It could happen!                cmdarray = new String[] { commandPath, url};             }          }          else          {             // DGF IEs4Linux, perhaps? It could happen!             cmdarray = new String[] { commandPath, url};          }          log.info("Launching Internet Explorer...");          AsyncExecute exe = new AsyncExecute();          exe.setCommandline(cmdarray);          process = exe.asyncSpawn();       }       catch (IOException e)       {          throw new RuntimeException(e);       }    }