[1.6.3] A session is either terminated or not started

The problem

Hey guys, I’ve been getting this issue quite frequently when running tests on appium via webdriverIO on my Note 4. Its been getting quite frequent which is causing my tests to time out, hang or fail: ERROR: A session is either terminated or not started.

I’m not sure how to resolve this issue.

I think this might be a chromedriver issue, as i have this in the following logs.

[Chromedriver] ProxyRequestError: Could not proxy command to remote server. Original error: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8000
    at JWProxy.proxy$ (../../../lib/jsonwp-proxy/proxy.js:126:13)
    at tryCatch (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:67:40)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:315:22)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as throw] (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:100:21)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:136:37)
 { ProxyRequestError: Could not proxy command to remote server. Original error: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8000
    at JWProxy.proxy$ (../../../lib/jsonwp-proxy/proxy.js:126:13)
    at tryCatch (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:67:40)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:315:22)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as throw] (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:100:21)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke (C:\Users\Rambo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\babel-runtime\regenerator\runtime.js:136:37)
  jsonwp: 
   { Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:8000
       at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
       at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1049:20)
       at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1090:14)
     code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
     errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
     syscall: 'connect',
     address: '127.0.0.1',
     port: 8000 } }

Environment

• Appium version: 1.6.3
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Windows 10 - 64 bit
• Node.js version: 7.0.0
• Npm version: 4.3.0
• Mobile platform/version under test: Android 6.0.1
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Samsung Note 4.
• Appium CLI

Link to Appium logs

The full log:

https://gist.github.com/johnRambo2k14/5d47195974fbeca380f1eb83d2e41071