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

[shapetheLOLa]

instapy is running perfectly, however I'm having trouble starting profilecrawl. Heres the output after trying to start it :

Traceback (most recent call last): File "crawl_profile.py", line 18, in <module> browser = webdriver.Chrome('./assets/chromedriver', chrome_options=chrome_options) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__ desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 98, in __init__ self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 188, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 256, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.29.461571 (8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5),platform=Linux 4.4.0-83-generic x86_64)

You got any hints/ideas?

[timgrossmann]

@shapetheLOLa Hmm... this is really weird. Sounds like it's either the wrong chrome driver for your system or your droplet hasn't got enough power (RAM)

[shapetheLOLa]

Im using the same chromedriver as in instapy, I've just copied it to the other location.

Not sure what you mean by droplet and enough RAM tho. The Linux server has plenty

[tcvieira]

@shapetheLOLa
On the log looks like it´s using selenium webdriver from python2.7
"/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py"
Try install selenium for python3
pip3 install selenium
and run with python3

[shapetheLOLa]

Oh sorry, yea but same error there. I've just tried it with python 2.7 after 3 didnt work.
I've also tried using a later chromedriver version.

Here is the output
⇒ python3.5 crawl_profile.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "crawl_profile.py", line 18, in <module> browser = webdriver.Chrome('./assets/chromedriver', chrome_options=chrome_options) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__ desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 98, in __init__ self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 188, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 256, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/home/jwkoch/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477691 (6ee44a7247c639c0703f291d320bdf05c1531b57),platform=Linux 4.4.0-83-generic x86_64)

[tcvieira]

@shapetheLOLa
Have you tried this stackoverflow question ?
Are you running as root?

[shapetheLOLa]

This won't help, will it? the chromedriver is in the assets folder, not /opt/google or /opt/.

I've tried putting it there and put a link to the assets folder, still no luck

[Jayphen]

I had this problem. You need to make sure it's running as headless.

In crawl_profile.py, add
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')

below the other similar add_argument lines

[0xc0392b]

I also had this problem, even though I was starting chrome in headless mode. For those who come across this in the future, I found adding "--no-sandbox" to the chrome startup arguments solved the problem.
E.g. chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')

[k1ltr0]

for some reason, wasnt working with chromedriver 2.29, had to update to 2.35 and worked

[djlowes]

Following on from @k1ltr0 - I have just had to update to v2.36 from 2.33 after receiving this error message. It's working fine now.

[r8w9a5k]

Hello,
I got 2 identical Dell computers with both win10.
First one can run selenium via simple python code

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.google.cz')

Second pc cannot run it. I tried to do everything I read on the internet but still getting error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: chrome failed to start
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.37.544315 (730aa6a5fdba159ac9f4c1e8cbc59bf1b5ce12b7),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)

I tried to add chrome_options.add_argument('--headless') and chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox') + I set Path variable and still getting this error.

Do you know how to solve it?

[happyhq]

@r8w9a5k which your version of python?

[happyhq]

@r8w9a5k
I meet the same problem。before，I think it‘s the version of python。But NOT。
it ’s the veriosn of chrome。
Please choice the right version of chrome and chromedriver。
You can see from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/。

[r8w9a5k]

@happyhq I am using python 3.6.1 and latest chromedriver 2.3.7

[r8w9a5k]

@happyhq Today I tried to run that on python 3.6.5 and chromedriver 2.3.7 with both 32bit or 64 bit and it still doesn't work. I am really angry why two indetical Dell computers differs.

[happyhq]

@r8w9a5k

Please choice the right version of chrome and chromedriver。
You can see from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/。

[happyhq]

@r8w9a5k Maybe the version of chrome is too old.

[r8w9a5k]

@happyhq Version of Chrome browser is the latest. Chromedriver is also up to date. I tried lower versions but error is still same.

[r8w9a5k]

@happyhq I solved my problem. I used procmon to trace what's going on with chromedriver.exe and I found out that the problem was in admin rights. I simply checked to run my IDLE and chromedriver as administrator and now it works just fine.

[timmoh]

@timgrossmann can be closed
@shapetheLOLa please close