Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService

[Lastrellik]

Meta -

OS: Windows 10 Hub, Ubuntu 18.04 Node
Selenium Version: 3.12.0
Browser: chromedriver
Browser Version: 2.38.552522 (64 bit)

Expected Behavior -

Chromedriver opens and navigates to http://www.google.com on Linux virtual machine node after being initiated from Java code on Windows 10 hub

Actual Behavior -

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService

Steps to reproduce -

1. Set up an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine on a Windows 10 host
2. Begin selenium hub on host with
   java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.12.0.jar -role hub
3. Begin selenium node on Ubuntu machine with
   java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="<full path to driver>" -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.12.0.jar -role node -hub http://<ip of host machine>:4444/grid/register
4. Run the following code on the host machine

@Test
public void test() throws MalformedURLException {
	DesiredCapabilities desCap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
	desCap.setPlatform(Platform.LINUX);
	WebDriver remoteWebDriver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), desCap);
	remoteWebDriver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	remoteWebDriver.get("http://www.google.com");
	remoteWebDriver.close();
}

[cgoldberg]

incompatible versions of Chrome and Chromedriver?

[Lastrellik]

@cgoldberg the version of Chrome I have installed is Chrome 66. Chromedriver v2.38 supports version 65-57 according to their download page. This problem has happened on both Ubuntu and Debian 64 bit.

[Lastrellik]

I have found my problem.

The issue wasn't with the Chromedriver or Chrome or my code or Selenium, but rather with my version of Java. I installed Java on Ubuntu using

sudo apt-get install default-jre default-jdk -y

This installed the wrong version of Java. I was mistaken when I thought this command would always install the latest Java versions. Anyway, installing Oracle's version of Java resolved the issue for me.

I think it would be nice if when selenium starts there was a check to make sure that you have a compatible java version. All of the logs seemed to suggest that everything was running okay.

[barancev]

@Lastrellik What Java flavour and version did you have before?

[Lastrellik]

@barancev sooo I tried to recreate the issue and couldn't. I reinstalled Ubuntu and did everything the way I thought I did it before and it worked this time. I don't know what was wrong. Maybe there was a conflict between the version of Chrome I had installed and that particular version of Selenium. Either way, it seems to be working now.

[barancev]

Thank you for getting us know everything is OK now.

[gopinath386]

I have facing issue "Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService" Error for chrome, IEdriver driver execution.

I have used 3 node 1 hub. I set hub also one node. From hub machine i am executing the code. Selenium webdriver parallel execution.
I have set the drivers in system environment also in selenium code with driver path.

Issue: From hub system drivers not start to execute the code. Error message "org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService"
Refer the attached screen shot too.
error_run
nodes

Details:

Selenium java 3.14, Standalone 3.14 jar, TestNG 6.14.2, Java 1.8.0_144 and chromedriver 2.42.
Chrome as 69.0.3497.100.
Hub & node 1 for System as Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, 64-bit. other two nodes System as Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, 64-bit and all other is same properties.
Note: Same code working for other 2 nodes. Same chromedrivers only used in all three nodes.

Kindly check and advice. what is the root cause for the issue. Why the error shows only for the hub machine.