TypeError: Cannot read property 'pipe' of undefined

[gil13]

When its trying to re-execute failed test I always get this error

[13:09:27] E/launcher - Error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pipe' of undefined at /Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/protractor-retry/lib/retry.js:152:26 at Function.promise (/Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/q/q.js:682:9) at /Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/protractor-retry/lib/retry.js:150:18 at Promise.apply (/Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/q/q.js:1165:26) at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/q/q.js:788:41) at /Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/q/q.js:1391:14 at runSingle (/Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/q/q.js:137:13) at flush (/Users/alberto/agent/_work/1/s/node_modules/q/q.js:125:13) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)

Any idea ?

[zahnrodolfo]

I'm facing the same issue and what I could discover is that the child_process.spawn() command is not generating the stdio so the stdout and stderr are not created. This way you get pipe of undefined.

I'm not sure exactly what is causing this but I could replicate it and it gives me the ENOENT or EACCESS error in this exact command.

[dreuxl]

yep, I m not sure how that case can happen. never seen it. I would need to take a look.

[kabomi]

Are you using angular-cli? I had a similar issue. You could try to run protractor instead of ng. Probably you will need to run your app from another console too.