ChromeHeadless failed to start stdout / Cannot start ChromeHeadless with PhantomJS / Karma

Question

I'm currently running tests using PhantomJS and Karma to test a Angular.js application. With the recent release of ChromeHeadless, we have started using ChromeHeadless test browser instead of the default PhantomJS browser.

I currently have karma-chrome-launcher 2.1.0 installed.

When I run my tests, I am presented with several different errors, extracts of which are listed below:

Cannot start ChromeHeadless
    [0510/113948.371837:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(767)] Failed to load /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/58.0.3029.110/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/A/resources.pak
Some features may not be available.

ChromeHeadless stdout:
10 05 2017 11:39:48.428:ERROR [launcher]: ChromeHeadless stderr: [0510/113948.371837:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(767)] Failed to load /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/58.0.3029.110/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/A/resources.pak
Some features may not be available.

ChromeHeadless stderr: [0510/113948.490917:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(767)] Failed to load /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/58.0.3029.110/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/A/resources.pak
Some features may not be available.

ChromeHeadless failed 2 times (cannot start). Giving up.
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

I have tried running a few npm commands, namely npm rebuild and npm update as I initially thought it was a dependency issue. That didn't work and I am not sure how to proceed. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The issue was due to the version of Google Chrome I had installed. Headless Chrome is supported from Chrome 59 onwards, whereas I had 58 installed.

I installed the Chrome Beta to gain access to Headless Chrome.