Unable to run phantomJS on karma - karma-runner

Question

I'm encountered a problem recently with PhantomJS library.
$ karma start
Log result:
Karma v0.13.15 server started at http://localhost:9876/ Starting
browser PhantomJS INFO [PhantomJS 1.9.8 (Mac OS X 0.0.0)]: Connected
on socket H1vRWOIqgBCUjb_bAAAA with id 36694801
PhantomJS 1.9.8 (Mac OS X 0.0.0) ERROR TYPE_MISMATCH_ERR: DOM Exception 17: The type of an object was incompatible with the expected
type of the parameter associated to the object. at
/Users/farman/.../tests.webpack.js:122637 <-
webpack:///~/crypto-browserify/rng.js:14:0
PhantomJS 1.9.8 (Mac OS X 0.0.0): Executed 0 of 0 ERROR (2.21 secs / 0
secs)
Module versions:
OSX: El Capitan 10.11.1
node: 5.0.0
Karma: 0.13.15
karma-phantomjs-launcher: 0.2.1
Phantomjs: 1.9.18
I've checked the forum, but still not solving the issue:
https://github.com/AngularClass/angular2-webpack-starter/issues/45

Answer 1

The crypto-browserify library is using Buffer which is buffer is a modified Uint8Array. PhantonJS apparently has a bug that rejects Buffer though and that's causing the issue you're seeing.
I've filed an issue here:
https://github.com/crypto-browserify/crypto-browserify/issues/143
You can also temporarily patch this by updating crypto-browserify/rng.js to replace this...
var bytes = new Buffer(size); //in browserify, this is an extended Uint8Array
...with this...
var bytes = new Uint8Array(size); //in browserify, this is an extended Uint8Array