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

AleksandraFrolo
New Contributor III

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?

1 REPLY 1

Debayan
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

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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