[🐛 Bug]: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist

[lpcoutinho]

What happened?

Hey everyone!!! Can someone help me?

I use Selenium 4.13.0, Ubuntu 22.04.2 and Chrome 117.0.5938.132

When trying to run the script with the Chrome screen open, I notice that the script breaks and I can't even access the desired page. This does not occur when I use the "--headless" argument. The output logs are displayed below.

I noticed that when I run the browser in the background with the "--headless" argument everything happens normally and the screen is printed at the end.

I researched a lot before asking here, I don't know if this is the right place for this, but can anyone help?

How can we reproduce the issue?

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")

options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=/home/luiz/.config/google-chrome/")
options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=Default')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

url="https://www.google.com"
driver.get(url)
driver.save_screenshot('img.png')

Relevant log output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/scrap.py", line 17, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 45, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chromium/webdriver.py", line 56, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 205, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities)
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 289, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, caps)["value"]
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 344, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/luiz/projects/scrap/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 229, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (session not created: 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.)
Stacktrace:
#0 0x562f745d26b3 <unknown>
#1 0x562f742a81e7 <unknown>
#2 0x562f742db526 <unknown>
#3 0x562f742d769c <unknown>
#4 0x562f7431a23a <unknown>
#5 0x562f74310e93 <unknown>
#6 0x562f742e3934 <unknown>
#7 0x562f742e471e <unknown>
#8 0x562f74597cb8 <unknown>
#9 0x562f7459bbf0 <unknown>
#10 0x562f745a619c <unknown>
#11 0x562f7459c808 <unknown>
#12 0x562f7456927f <unknown>
#13 0x562f745c0e88 <unknown>
#14 0x562f745c1059 <unknown>
#15 0x562f745d1843 <unknown>
#16 0x7f8c8b294b43 <unknown>

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04.2

Selenium version

4.13.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 117.0.5938.132

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 117.0.5938.132

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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[titusfortner]

Aha, there is a recommended fix now:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=4403#c35

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