title: Selenium webdriver exits with error code 135
body: <p>I am new to protractor. I am getting the following error while trying to run Selenium tests using protractor</p>
  
  <pre><code>I/hosted - Using the selenium server at http://localhost:4444/wd/hub
  I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
  E/launcher - Error code: 135
  E/launcher - Error message: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4444
  E/launcher - Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4444
  at ClientRequest.&lt;anonymous&gt;  (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:381:15)
  at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
  at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:169:7)
  at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:267:9)
  at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
  at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
  at emitErrorNT (net.js:1269:8)
  at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)
  at process._tickCallback (node.js:356:17)
  From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
  at Function.createSession  (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver.js:329:24)
  at Builder.build (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\builder.js:458:24)
  at Hosted.DriverProvider.getNewDriver (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\driverProviders\driverProvider.js:37:33)
  at Runner.createBrowser (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:187:43)
  at c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:261:30
  at _fulfilled (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:834:54)
  at self.promiseDispatch.done (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:863:30)
  at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:796:13)
  at c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:556:49
  at runSingle (c:\Users\SavDevService.SAVISIONLAB\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\q\q.js:137:13)
  E/launcher - Process exited with error code 135
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I checked to see if any other process is listening to port 4444, but did not find any. also I am running web driver with --standalone  flag.</p>