selenium with chromium crash with webworker - selenium-webdriver

Question

I am using:
Chromium 73
Chromium ChromeDriver 73
Alpine 3.9
Selenium Java
in CI (in kuberenetes cluster) and I am getting crashes for web driver since I added WebWorker to my application code under test.
Crash Log Here - https://gist.github.com/yosiat/360cb40af0cf7e234a0c6304c8c26ef1
I enabled chrome webdriver verbose logging and I see those lines:
[33751:33751:0709/175416.767497:ERROR:validation_errors.cc(76)] Invalid message: VALIDATION_ERROR_DESERIALIZATION_FAILED (DevToolsAgentHost::ChildWorkerCreated deserializer)
[33751:33761:0709/175416.767545:ERROR:render_process_host_impl.cc(4800)] Terminating render process for bad Mojo message: Received bad user message: Validation failed for DevToolsAgentHost::ChildWorkerCreated deserializer [VALIDATION_ERROR_DESERIALIZATION_FAILED (DevToolsAgentHost::ChildWorkerCreated deserializer)
[33751:33761:0709/175416.767578:ERROR:bad_message.cc(27)] Terminating renderer for bad IPC message, reason 123
[1562694856.784][DEBUG]: DevTools WebSocket Event: Inspector.targetCrashed EBB11FCDAB2DEC02066BF3BCD6FF4F8D {
}
[1562694856.784][INFO]: Done waiting for pending navigations. Status: unknown error: cannot determine loading status
from tab crashed
[1562694856.835][INFO]: [d62047bf581d2bfcc6f681474fb0ea28] RESPONSE Navigate ERROR unknown error: session deleted because of page crash
from unknown error: cannot determine loading status
from tab crashed
(Session info: chrome=73.0.3683.103)

Answer 1

Try launching the chrome with argument '--disable-dev-shm-usage' .
Example JAVA :
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
Most probably its crashing because of the memory issues. Reference
If above solution is not working then you can try mounting an emptyDir to /dev/shm and setting the medium to Memory

Answer 2

I got exactly the same error while trying to setup nightwatch + chromium + chromedriver in docker. Our project uses Auth0 which in turn uses web workers, some other sites without web workers opened just fine. I used node:10-alpine image and simply installed chrome and chromedriver like this apk add chromium-chromedriver chromium, tried --privileged mode and a bunch of chrome flags but it didn't work.
Then I tried using this as a base (right now it installs chrome 76) https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/lighthousebot/blob/master/builder/Dockerfile and it worked. The final dockerfile was something like this
FROM node:10-slim AS test
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing && apt-get -y upgrade
RUN wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - \
&& sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' \
&& apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable --no-install-recommends \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
&& rm -rf /src/*.deb
RUN npm install nightwatch chromedriver
# copy nightwatch files, etc
And chrome was run with --headless, --no-sandbox and --disable-gpu.