Selenium grid unable to run the demo test

Question

Okay, this is my first ever try to run the Selenium Grid.

1 - I went according this page: http://selenium-grid.seleniumhq.org/run_the_demo.html

 ant launch-hub
 ant launch-remote-control
 ant run-demo-in-sequence

Ofcourse, every command in different MS-DOS window (Running windows XP)]

I see everything as demo suggests, up to the last point where I see just this:

run-demo-in-sequence:
 [java] [Parser] Running:
 [java]   Selenium Grid Demo In Sequence
 [java]
 [java] 21-Mar-2012 14:46:29 com.thoughtworks.selenium.grid.tools.ThreadSafeSeleniumSessionStorage startSeleniumSession
 [java] INFO: Contacting Selenium RC at localhost:4444

New window of firefox does come up but thats it. I waited like 10 minutes and nothing happened.

I found this question on SO, which did not help me at all.

Because this is freshly installed, I am going to try to restart computer to see if it helps, but other help is highly appreciated.

EDIT Restarting of the computer did not help. I tried also running demo in paralel, with same result - four new firefox windows appear and nothing happens.

ANT:

Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.3 compiled on February 26 2012

Selenium grid version: 1.0.8

Firefox version 11.0

EDIT 2 OK, stupid me - the demo references that I will find the source codes in demo subfolder. Since I cannot find the demo subfolder ... that could be the issue, right? :)

EDIT 3 I checked older version of selenium grid and it does not contain the demo subfolder also. Ok, I am stuck...

Answer 1

Selenium version 1.0.8 doesn't support FF 11.0. You should use Grid 2.0 . Thats the latest. You can find details here

Answer 2

Latest version of Selenium is failed to control firefox version 11.0 you should try with firefox 10 or prior versions.