Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time - Error when trying to run iOS tests on a remote appium server - appium log attached - ios

Question

I am trying to run appium tests on iPhones using a remote appium server.
When I run the tests locally they pass but when I just send the remote server's ip and try to execute the test I get the following errors in my log:
info: Client User-Agent string: Apache-HttpClient/4.3.3 (java 1.5)
info: [debug] App is an iOS bundle, will attempt to run as pre-existing
info: [debug] Creating new appium session 87610d1a-b873-46e5-96b0-b54b412f10a0
info: [debug] Removing any remaining instruments sockets
info: [debug] Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock
info: [debug] Setting Xcode folder
info: [debug] Setting Xcode version
info: [debug] Setting iOS SDK Version
info: [debug] Getting sdk version from xcrun with a timeout
info: [debug] iOS SDK Version set to 8.1
info: [debug] Not checking whether simulator is available since we're on a real device
info: [debug] Detecting automation tracetemplate
info: [debug] Not auto-detecting udid, running on sim
info: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/com.viber.testing/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
info: Will try to parse the plist file as XML
info: [debug] Could not parse plist file (as XML) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/com.viber.testing/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
warn: Could not parse app Localizable.strings; assuming it doesn't exist
info: [debug] Creating instruments
info: [debug] Preparing uiauto bootstrap
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap dir: /Users/Desktop-QA/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap
info: [debug] Dynamic env: {"nodePath":"/usr/local/bin/node","commandProxyClientPath":"/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-uiauto/bin/command-proxy-client.js","instrumentsSock":"/tmp/instruments_sock","interKeyDelay":null,"justLoopInfinitely":false,"autoAcceptAlerts":false,"sendKeyStrategy":"grouped"}
...o: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap code: // This file is automatically generated. Do not manually modify!
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap path: /Users/Desktop-QA/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-d0f21a5b61bb08af.js
info: [debug] Reusing dynamic bootstrap: /Users/Desktop-QA/Library/Application Support/appium/bootstrap/bootstrap-d0f21a5b61bb08af.js
info: [debug] Getting device string from opts: {"forceIphone":false,"forceIpad":false,"xcodeVersion":"6.1.1","iOSSDKVersion":"8.1","deviceName":"none","platformVersion":"8.0.2"}
info: [debug] fixDevice is on
info: [debug] Final device string is: 'none (8.0.2 Simulator)'
info: [debug] Not setting device type since we're on a real device
info: [debug] Checking whether we need to set app preferences
info: [debug] Not setting iOS and app preferences since we're on a real device
info: [debug] Reset not set, not ending sim or cleaning up app state
info: [debug] Not setting locale because we're using a real device
info: [debug] No iOS / app preferences to set
info: [debug] Starting iOS device log capture via deviceconsole
error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
info: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
info: [debug] Error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time
at null.onTimeout (/usr/local/lib/nodemodules/appium/lib/devices/ios/ios-log.js:139:10)
at Timer.listOnTimeout as ontimeout
info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time)","origValue":"Log capture did not start in a reasonable amount of time"},"sessionId":null}
info: <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 11148.632 ms - 234
I tried newer devices ,cleaning the logs from the device and restarting it but all of these didn't help.
Any help will be more then welcome.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

A temporary solution for me was to run appium from source,replacing Deviceconsole with devicesyslog (the previous one) and now it works and i can get the logs from the device even when i am running on a remote appium with a remote device