"Could not create Appium driver" on new session appears often on version 6.0

[xgene34]

Hi,

So I'm noticing in version 6.0 that when I execute tests on my iOs device and tests let's say failes and I start a new test again , I quite often get now: "Could not create Appium driver"

then need to restart provider to be able to run new tests

any ideas?

[shamanec]

@xgene34 not really 🤔 Can you provide actual logs and the full failure? Can you provider better reproduction steps for the issue? :)

[ilendemli]

Yea, we too have those issues now and then:
Session 'c8378126-77a9-4475-b7b5-636fddc80d07' is starting on udid '00008120-001A35D80CD2201E', which is already in use by another session identified by 1970cddd-ce5b-4736-968b-92ece67762e7. Running multiple parallel sessions on the same device is highly discouraged. Consider enabling the Appium server's '--session-override' flag and make sure to properly quit the previous session before starting a new one. Terminating the obsolete session.
It was marked as free.

[shamanec]

Hm, we have the --session-override flag on the Appium server startup, maybe it needs explicit --session-override=true although that would be weird 🤔

[ilendemli]

I have a theory that this happens when two test sets try to access the same grid at the same time.