Intermittent "Can't load the profile" errors during initialization about tor-browser-selenium

[gunesacar]

Checking the browser logs from the failed cases, it turns out this happens when Tor cannot bootstrap, e.g.:

Aug 18 17:19:20.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server
Aug 18 17:19:20.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server
Aug 18 17:19:20.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 15%: Establishing an encrypted directory connection
Aug 18 17:19:20.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 20%: Asking for networkstatus consensus
Aug 18 17:19:20.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 25%: Loading networkstatus consensus
Aug 18 17:19:21.000 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We have no usable consensus.

Perhaps Tor Browser waits for Tor to bootstrap, and Selenium waits for the browser to be connectable.

I ran into this problem only ~3 of 100 runs on a local PC with a good network connection. It may make sense to skip the tests that require a Tor bootstrap on Travis. In addition we may consider exposing this error (that "tor cannot bootstrap") to calling code.