WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.

AleksandraFrolo — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:01:24 GMT

Hiiiii,

I want to scratch a text from the web page with simple code:

from selenium import webdriver # Set options to make browsing easier #Function is responsible to create a driver and return that driver. def get_driver(): chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chrome_options.add_argument("start-maximized") chrome_options.add_argument("disable-infobars") chrome_options.add_argument("disable-dev-shm-usage") chrome_options.add_argument("no-sandbox") chrome_options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"]) chrome_options.add_argument("disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled") driver = webdriver.Chrome(options = chrome_options) #connect driver to a web page driver.get("http://automated.pythonanywhere.com") #return driver for this particular web page return driver def main(): driver = get_driver() element = driver.find_element(by = "xpath", value = "/html/body/div[1]/div/h1[1]") return element.text print(main())

The error message:

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally. (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /root/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/115.0.5790.170/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.) Stacktrace: #0 0x55e176cd1613 #1 0x55e1769fd537 #2 0x55e176a28588 #3 0x55e176a255d9 #4 0x55e176a65643 #5 0x55e176a64d8f #6 0x55e176a5c803 #7 0x55e176a3068b #8 0x55e176a3142e #9 0x55e176c92c28 #10 0x55e176c96af7 #11 0x55e176ca101c #12 0x55e176c97723 #13 0x55e176c66457 #14 0x55e176cbb628 #15 0x55e176cbb7b7 #16 0x55e176cca483 #17 0x7efedfacc609 start_thread --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WebDriverException Traceback (most recent call last) <command-1651202861729537> in <cell line: 6>() 4 return element.text 5 ----> 6 print(main()) <command-1651202861729537> in main() 1 def main(): ----> 2 driver = get_driver() 3 element = driver.find_element(by = "xpath", value = "/html/body/div[1]/div/h1[1]") 4 return element.text 5 <command-1651202861729536> in get_driver() 12 13 ---> 14 driver = webdriver.Chrome(options = options) 15 16 #connect driver to a web page

Can you explain what does this error mean and how can I solve it?

Re: WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.

Debayan — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:18:04 GMT

Hi, Looks like the issue is with your browser, could you please try to change the browser and confirm?

Please tag @Debayan with your next comment, which will get me notified. Thanks!

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