Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser + selenium + robotframework

Question

I'm using robotframework+seleniumlibrary and I often got the following error when I launch test cases

Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser 

I'm connected by "ssh -X nome@server-ip" on my company server from where I launch TC, and after I got the error above, the only way to solve it, it is to disconnect and re-start a new ssh connection....

is there any other way to solve it?

I'm using firefox 16 as browser for my test case. thanks.

Answer 1

Here is an answer here which might help: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/selenium-users/nFhusJoAzV8

I know that I have had issues with firefox driver not killing the firefox process when it was finished and had to add code to kill all firefox processes as part of the cleanup of my tests.