Unhandled rejection Error: Not running at Server.close (net.js:1236:11) with Karma and Jasmine

Posted At : December 20, 2016 6:44 PM | Posted By : Jeffry Houser
Related Categories: JavaScript, AngularJS, Karma

I'm writing some addendum to my LearnWith AngularJS training series. One of those will detail how to unit test an AngularJS web application. I'm setting something up with Gulp, Karma, and Jasmine.

Trying to get this running gave me a full day of this error:

Unhandled rejection Error: Not running
at Server.close (net.js:1236:11)
at C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\lib\server.js:388:17
at tryCatcher (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)
at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:510:31)
at Promise._settlePromise (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:567:18)
at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:612:10)
at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:691:18)
at Async._drainQueue (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:138:16)
at Async._drainQueues (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:148:10)
at Async.drainQueues (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:17:14)
at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)

There is a lot of Google hits for this error; but none actually relate to my issue, so I hope this helps someone.

After much head pounding and experimentation; I finally deciphered the cause. When creating the Karma config file, make sure that your files are put in proper dependency order. Simply put; I was listing the AngularJS library at the end of the file list instead of the beginning, so the code didn't know how to create angular modules, services, or other elements, because that Angular library wasn't defined yet.

Changing the order of dependencies solved the issue and I can run unit tests as expected.

I hope that helps someone.