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Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed
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Selenium -3.141.0
python-2.7
google web driver--74.0.3729.6
google web browser--74.0.3729.169
using below code to access google.com
"from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options,
executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")
browser.get('http://www.google.com/')"
getting below issue
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
(Driver info: chromedriver=74.0.3729.6 255758eccf3d244491b8a1317aa76e1ce10d57e9-refs/branch-heads/3729#{#29}),platform=Linux 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64)
Try executing /usr/bin/google-chrome command in terminal - if it will not be successful - you will not be able to proceed. You can check status code using $? variable - it should be equal to 0
It might be the case there is no DISPLAY variable defined hence Chrome cannot launch properly. Make sure to have this variable defined and pointing to either real or virtual display.
There is a possibility to run Chrome in headless mode, add the next lines to your script:
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path="/path/to/chromedriver")
You can see Selenium With Python reference project for example configuration/initialisation
Make sure that ChromeDriver and Chrome versions are matching
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org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
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Closed 4 years ago.
Please don't mark this question as a duplicate, because the other solution doesn't work for me.
I'm using Angular v5.x and using Protractor for E2E testing. But on running the command.
ng e2e -s false
It is throwing an error as
Failed: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
(Session info: chrome=71.0.3578.98)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.24.417431 (9aea000394714d2fbb20850021f6204f2256b9cf),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x86_64)
Stack:
WebDriverError: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
(Session info: chrome=71.0.3578.98)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.24.417431 (9aea000394714d2fbb20850021f6204f2256b9cf),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x86_64)
at Object.checkLegacyResponse (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:639:15)
at parseHttpResponse (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:538:13)
at client_.send.then.response (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\http\index.js:472:11)
at ManagedPromise.invokeCallback_ (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:1379:14)
at TaskQueue.execute_ (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2913:14)
at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2896:21)
at asyncRun (F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2820:25)
at F:\Commutatus\yop-v3\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:639:7
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
I've followed this issue on GitHub, but no luck!!!
I've also install latest chrome driver from this link http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads. After unzipping and executing the .exe file a console window opens, prompting this message
Starting ChromeDriver 2.45.615291
(ec3682e3c9061c10f26ea9e5cdcf3c53f3f74387) on port 9515 Only local
connections are allowed.
I've re-run the same command again but not working. I've also checked using
chromedriver --version the version of chromedriver it is v2.45.
Chrome version - 71.0
Chrome drivers version - 2.45
As per the error message, it suggest that call to webdriver(wire protocol) responded empty. I suggest downgrade to your chrome to any stable version below 70 and compatible chromedrive.
As you share console message :-
Starting ChromeDriver 2.45.615291 (ec3682e3c9061c10f26ea9e5cdcf3c53f3f74387) on port 9515 Only local connections are allowed.
this is information message in console in red color, you can avoid and after this you chrome session means chrome window turn on and if you pass any URL it will redirect to that if you have error after this please share with us because i doesn't seem any problem
Recently I switched computers and since then I can't launch chrome with selenium. I've also tried Firefox but the browser instance just doesn't launch.
from selenium import webdriver
d = webdriver.Chrome('/home/PycharmProjects/chromedriver')
d.get('https://www.google.nl/')
i get the following error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600233, platform=Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64)
i have the latest chrome version and chromedriver installed
EDIT:
After trying #b0sss solution i am getting the following error.
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
(chrome not reachable)
(The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so chromedriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600233 (523efee95e3d68b8719b3a1c83051aa63aa6b10d),platform=Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64)
Try to download HERE and use this latest chrome driver version:
https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/
Try this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
d = webdriver.Chrome('/home/<user>/chromedriver',chrome_options=chrome_options)
d.get('https://www.google.nl/')
This error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
Your main issue is the Chrome browser is not installed at the default location within your system.
The server i.e. ChromeDriver expects you to have Chrome installed in the default location for each system as per the image below:
1For Linux systems, the ChromeDriver expects /usr/bin/google-chrome to be a symlink to the actual Chrome binary.
Solution
In case you are using a Chrome executable in a non-standard location you have to override the Chrome binary location as follows:
Python Solution:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.binary_location = "C:\\path\\to\\chrome.exe" #chrome binary location specified here
options.add_argument("--start-maximized") #open Browser in maximized mode
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") #bypass OS security model
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage") #overcome limited resource problems
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://google.com/')
Java Solution:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions opt = new ChromeOptions();
opt.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"); //chrome binary location specified here
options.addArguments("start-maximized");
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(opt);
driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
hope this helps someone. this worked for me on Ubuntu 18.10
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver', options=chrome_options)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
print('test')
driver.close()
I encountered the exact problem running on docker container (in build environment). After ssh into the container, I tried running the test manually and still encountered
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable is
no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
When I tried running chrome locally /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable, error message
Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported
I checked my ChromeOptions and it was missing --no-sandbox, which is why it couldn't spawn chrome.
capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(
chromeOptions: { args: %w(headless --no-sandbox disable-gpu window-size=1920,1080) }
)
I had a similar issue, and discovered that option arguments must be in a certain order. I am only aware of the two arguments that were required to get this working on my Ubuntu 18 machine. This sample code worked on my end:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
d = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'/home/PycharmProjects/chromedriver', chrome_options=options)
d.get('https://www.google.nl/')
For RobotFramework
I solved it! using --no-sandbox
${chrome_options}= Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument test-type
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-extensions
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --headless
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-gpu
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --no-sandbox
Create Webdriver Chrome chrome_options=${chrome_options}
Instead of
Open Browser about:blank headlesschrome
Open Browser about:blank chrome
Assuming that you already downloaded chromeDriver, this error is also occurs when already multiple chrome tabs are open.
If you close all tabs and run again, the error should clear up.
in my case, the error was with www-data user but not with normal user on development. The error was a problem to initialize an x display for this user. So, the problem was resolved running my selenium test without opening a browser window, headless:
opts.set_headless(True)
A simple solution that no one else has said but worked for me was not running without sudo or not as root.
The solutions that every body provide here is good for Clear the face of the issue but
All you need to solve this problem is that You have to run The App on non-root user
on linux.
According to this post
https://github.com/paralelo14/google_explorer/issues/2#issuecomment-246476321
I had the same problem but it was solved just by reinstalling chrome again with the commands below:
$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
This error has been happening randomly during my test runs over the last six months (still happens with Chrome 76 and Chromedriver 76) and only on Linux. On average one of every few hundred tests would fail, then the next test would run fine.
Unable to resolve the issue, in Python I wrapped the driver = webdriver.Chrome() in a try..except block in setUp() in my test case class that all my tests are derived from. If it hits the Webdriver exception it waits ten seconds and tries again.
It solved the issue I was having; not elegantly but it works.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
try:
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, desired_capabilities=capabilities)
except WebDriverException as e:
print("\nChrome crashed on launch:")
print(e)
print("Trying again in 10 seconds..")
sleep(10)
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, desired_capabilities=capabilities)
print("Success!\n")
except Exception as e:
raise Exception(e)
I came across this error on linux environment. If not using headless then you will need
from sys import platform
if platform != 'win32':
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()
Faced with this issue trying to run/debug Python Selenium script inside WSL2 using Pycharm debugger.
First solution was to use --headless mode, but I prefer to have Chrome GUI during the debug process.
In the system terminal outside Pycharm debugger Chrome GUI worked nice with DISPLAY env variable set this way (followed guide here):
export DISPLAY=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2; exit;}'):0.0
Unfortunately ~/.bashrc is not running in Pycharm during the debug, export is not working.
The way I've got Chrome GUI worked from Pycharm debugger: run echo $DISPLAY in WSL2, paste ip (you've got something similar to this) 172.18.144.1:0 into Pycharm Debug Configuration > Environment Variables:
Just do not run the script as the root user (in my case).
i had same problem. I was run it on terminal with "sudo geany", you should run it without "sudo" just type on terminal "geany" and it is solved for me.
i faced the same problem but i solved it by moving the chromedriver to this path
'/opt/google/chrome/'
and this code works correctly
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
driver = Chrome('/opt/google/chrome/chromedrive')
driver.get('https://google.com')
In my case, chrome was broken. following two lines fixed the issue,
apt -y update; apt -y upgrade; apt -y dist-upgrade
apt --fix-broken install
Fixed it buy killing all the chrome processeses running in the remote server before running my script.
That may explain why some answers that recommend you run your script as root works.
$ pkill -9 chrome
$ ./my_script.py
Maybe when you where developing in local, you used options.headless=False in order to see what is the browser doing but you forgot to change it to True in the vm.
For me, the root issue was that the google-chrome/chromedriver version were not compatible with the Selenium version.
Seleniumn and Chrome were working fine until a few days ago and I started getting this missing DevToolsActivePort issue. After trying all sorts of solutions on this thread, it finally occurred to me that the Chrome version might not be compatible with the Selenium version.
Versions at the time of the initial error:
# Below combo does NOT work
Python 3.7.3
selenium==3.141.0
Google Chrome 110.0.5481.77
ChromeDriver 110.0.5481.77
I then downgraded Chrome and ChromeDriver to 109.0.5414.74 but still faced the same error. I checked the versions on a different machine and saw that this combo worked:
# Below combo works
Python 3.7.6
selenium==3.141.0
Google Chrome 80.0.3987.100
ChromeDriver 80.0.3987.16
However, I wasn't able to find a download for Google Chrome V80. This comment had a download to V97 so that's the version I went with. There might be higher versions of Google Chrome that do work but after spending so many days fixing this, I was eager to move onto something else.
sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable
sudo wget http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_97.0.4692.71-1_amd64.deb && \
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_97.0.4692.71-1_amd64.deb && \
sudo apt-mark hold google-chrome-stable
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/97.0.4692.71/chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin
After that, my Selenium calls were able to work again. The final version combo:
# Below combo works
Python 3.7.3
selenium==3.141.0
ChromeDriver 97.0.4692.71
Google Chrome 97.0.4692.71
Make sure that both the chromedriver and google-chrome executable have execute permissions
sudo chmod -x "/usr/bin/chromedriver"
sudo chmod -x "/usr/bin/google-chrome"
I am using Robot Framework for test automation.
Recently I upgraded my Chrome browser to the latest version, V 57.0
Since then, I am unable to execute my test scripts on Chrome.
The webpage opens up and navigates until Login page, the cursor focus is set on Username field and then it just keeps on trying for few seconds until i receive an error saying:
[ WARN ] Keyword 'Capture Page Screenshot' could not be run on
failure: WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot get
automation extension from unknown error: page could not be found:
chrome-extension://aapnijgdinlhnhlmodcfapnahmbfebeb/_generated_background_page.html
(Session info: chrome=57.0.2987.133) (Driver info:
chromedriver=2.24.417431
(9aea000394714d2fbb20850021f6204f2256b9cf),platform=Windows NT
10.0.10586 x86_64)
I have no extensions installed in the browser.
Also followed up a similar post here
It just mentions about removing your extensions, which I already did.
Thanks
EDIT: Always make certain you are using current and compatible versions of Chromedriver. I always suspect this when the problems show up at the element level. The driver has to be updated a lot as the browser evolves. In your case, you've indicated a current Chromedriver is a solution. Note that this solution generalizes to all browsers.
If the problem were more related to window sizing/resizing, it might be due to the fact that selenium is trying to use an extension to perform a windowing function. Issues with running headless... This assumes you are running headless.
Solution is likely to rework the test for headless runs, or run else try a real browser.
Your chromedriver is not latest as said in your error message (Driver info: chromedriver=2.24.417431). Latest available chromedriver version is V2.28
Use latest available Chrome Drivers and you will be all good.
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