I have a set of automations that work fantastically in Firefox and Chrome, and I'd like to launch an instance of IEDriver as well.

I've set up IEDriver as per Selenium's Google Code wiki, with the correct path (if I change the path I get a different exception, so it's definitely correct). But for some reason it still can't launch, and just times out.

The code to launch it (the last line throws the exception):

        File ieDriver = new File("C:/Users/whatever/path/IEDriverServer.exe");

        System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", ieDriver.getAbsolutePath());

        WebDriver ie = new InternetExplorerDriver();

And the exception is:

Exception in thread "main" 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: '2.33.0', revision: '4ecaf82108b2a6cc6f006aae81961236eba93358', time: '2013-05-22 12:00:17'

System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_21'

Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver

    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.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:201)

    at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:184)

    at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:174)

    at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:143)

    at uk.co.know.kiteTest.WebDriverManager.<init>(WebDriverManager.java:52)

    at uk.co.know.kiteTest.RunAutomations.main(RunAutomations.java:13)

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start.

Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4ecaf82108b2a6cc6f006aae81961236eba93358', time: '2013-05-22 12:00:17'

System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_21'

Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver

    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:38622/status] to be available after 20014 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

Indicates there was a problem communicating with the browser being controlled or the Selenium server. The most common causes for this exception are:

    1.The provided server address to RemoteWebDriver is invalid, so the connection could not be established.

    2.The browser has died mid-test.