angular-cli: ng e2e fails with Error code 135

Please provide us with the following information:

1. OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

Mac OSX El Cap

1. Versions. Please run ng --version. If there’s nothing outputted, please run in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.14
node: 6.6.0
os: darwin x64

1. Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn’t created using the CLI? What change did you do on your code? etc.

new application, start the server with ng serve and in another terminal window try to run the tests with ng e2e

1. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some more information.

> a2test@0.0.0 pree2e /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test
> webdriver-manager update

[12:50:02] I/update - chromedriver: file exists /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.22mac32.zip
[12:50:02] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping chromedriver_2.22mac32.zip
[12:50:02] I/update - chromedriver: setting permissions to 0755 for /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.22
[12:50:02] I/update - chromedriver: v2.22 up to date
[12:50:02] I/update - selenium standalone: file exists /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar
[12:50:02] I/update - selenium standalone: v2.53.1 up to date

> a2test@0.0.0 e2e /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test
> protractor "./protractor.conf.js"

[12:50:03] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...
[12:50:03] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[12:50:04] E/launcher - Error code: 135
[12:50:04] E/launcher - Error message: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:53256
[12:50:04] E/launcher - Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:53256
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/http/index.js:381:15)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:308:9)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at emitErrorNT (net.js:1271:8)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
    at Function.createSession (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:329:24)
    at Driver (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:778:38)
    at Direct.getNewDriver (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/built/driverProviders/direct.js:68:26)
    at Runner.createBrowser (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:190:43)
    at /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:264:30
    at _fulfilled (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/q/q.js:834:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/q/q.js:863:30)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/q/q.js:796:13)
    at /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/q/q.js:556:49
    at runSingle (/Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/node_modules/q/q.js:137:13)
[12:50:04] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 135


npm ERR! Darwin 15.6.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.6.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "e2e" "--" "./protractor.conf.js"
npm ERR! node v6.6.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.7
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! a2test@0.0.0 e2e: `protractor "./protractor.conf.js"`
npm ERR! Exit status 135
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the a2test@0.0.0 e2e script 'protractor "./protractor.conf.js"'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the a2test package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     protractor "./protractor.conf.js"
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs a2test
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls a2test
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/John/Dev/Javascript/Angular/a2test/npm-debug.log

Some end-to-end tests failed, see above.