Cannot connect to the service chromedriver (Mac) [duplicate] - python

So I have made a program on one computer using selenium and that worked, Now using it in another computer I get this error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service chromedriver
Now this same issue was mention in:
Selenium python: Can not connect to the Service %s" % self.path
Selenium python: Can not connect to the Service %s" % self.path
Selenium and Python3 ChromeDriver raises Message: Can not connect to the Service chromedriver
however the solutions mentioned didnt work.
I am using chrome version 79 and have installed chromedriver 79, I tested writing chromedriver in command line and that works which means path is configured right, I have made sure 127.0.0.1 localhost is also in etc/hosts
Below is my code which works on my computer (so i doubt its an issue with the code):
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
with webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options) as driver:
driver.set_window_size(800, 460) # takes two arguments, width and height of the browser and it has to be called before using get()
driver.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom='150%'")
driver.get("file:\\"+url) # takes one argument, which is the url of the website you want to open
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').screenshot(output) # avoids scrollbar
In the last question I also tried this modification:
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
with webdriver.Chrome("C:\\chromedriver.exe",chrome_options=chrome_options) as driver:
driver.set_window_size(800, 460) # takes two arguments, width and height of the browser and it has to be called before using get()
driver.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom='150%'")
driver.get("file:\\"+url) # takes one argument, which is the url of the website you want to open
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').screenshot(output) # avoids scrollbar
which would instead give me this almost identical error message:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service C:\chromedriver.exe
I am unsure where the issue could lie.
I am using windows by the way.
EDIT: Things I tried and didn't work:
1- running everything as both admin and normal
2- re-installing chrome
3- using the beta-chroma 80 and webdriver 80
4- using normal chrome 79 and webdriver 79
5- Having both the script and the driver in the same directory (while using a
correct path)
6- Having an external path and have it setup as needed
7- Using it in the PATH folder.
8- Adding "127.0.0.1 localhost" to etc/hosts
9- Running service test
I have ensured in every test that everything was in it's correct placement, I have ran a reboot before every new test, and they always give me the same error, which also happens to occur if I had an incorrect path as well, but once I ran the code for a service and it gave me a different error as I had my webdriver in C:/ which required admin privilages, however re-running the test again with the correct privilages gave back the same error
Update the issue isn't exclusive to the chrome driver. Even following setup instructions for either the Firefox or edge drivers end up on the same issues. It makes me suspect that the connection is facing some issue. I have tried running the test codes provided by Mozilla for the setup and it didn't work.
Unsure if that does help much or at all.

This error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service chromedriver
...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session.
You need to take care of a couple of things:
Ensure that you have downloaded the exact format of the ChromeDriver binary from the download location pertaining to your underlying OS among:
chromedriver_linux64.zip: For Linux OS
chromedriver_mac64.zip: For Mac OSX
chromedriver_win32.zip: For Windows OS
Ensure that /etc/hosts file contains the following entry:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Ensure that ChromeDriver binary have executable permission for the non-root user.
Ensure that you have passed the proper absolute path of ChromeDriver binary through the argument executable_path as follows:
with webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=chrome_options) as driver:
So your effective code block will be:
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox') # Bypass OS security model
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu') # applicable to windows os only
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage") # overcome limited resource problems
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
with webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe', options=options) as driver:
driver.set_window_size(800, 460) # takes two arguments, width and height of the browser and it has to be called before
driver.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom='150%'")
driver.get("file:\\"+url) # takes one argument, which is the url of the website you want to open
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').screenshot(output) # avoids scrollbar
Mandatory Considerations
Finally, to avoid incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using ensure that:
Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.
ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v79.0.3945.36 level.
Chrome is updated to current Chrome Version 79.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v79.0 release notes)
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
Take a System Reboot.
Execute your #Test as non-root user.
References
You can find a couple of reference discussions in:
Python Selenium “Can not connect to the Service %s” % self.path in linux server
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service chromedriver.exe while opening chrome browser
How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?

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How to use normal chrome completely without chromedriver selenium python not duplicate

How to use normal chrome completely without chromedriver selenium python not duplicate.
I am using python 3.8.8,os is windows 7 ultimate with pycharm as
IDE and chrome version is around 96. and my problem is that whenever I use my python script to scrape a website it uses chromedriver and when I specify what's given below:
options = Options ()
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=my chrome path which is not Executable instead the user data")
#this works but when opening chrome it shows "browser is controlled by automated software" and changing it to normal chrome. Exe won't work
Sure it uses normal chrome with my credentials but it still needs chromedriver to work and when I delete the chromedriver it throw an error and when I go into selenium source code in a file called site.py(or sites.py) which I changed the variable self. executable to chrome.exe path and it worked and it won't show the message browser is controlled by automated software but it won't do anything , it is just stuck there and what I want to do is use chrome as the browser to scrape without chromedriver in my pc is it possible? If yes please tell me how should I go on to do it and you can ask for further Clarification and details and Thanks in advance
By default, selenium is detected as an automated software and is flagged by most websites, and the flag is unable to be removed. There are, however, external libraries that can be installed that can remove the flag.
There are options here to try to get around the default flag and hide the fact the browser is automated.
Edit
I understand the question further, and see that you want a more portable chrome option. Chrome driver is a very specific program controlled by selenium and must be used. There is no substitute. You can use Firefox driver or internet explorer, but a webdriver must be used (hence the name driver for driving the main browser). When you specify the directory for the Chrome binary, you aren’t removing the middleman of the chromedriver, only Specifying where chrome driver needs to look!
Using Selenium you won't be able to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session without the ChromeDriver.
The Parts and Pieces
As a minimum requirement, the WebDriver i.e the ChromeDriver talks to a browser through a driver and the communication is two way:
WebDriver passes commands to the browser through the driver
Receives information back via the same route.
Hence using ChromeDriver is a mandatory requirement.

Error while using Selenium: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist [duplicate]

I am trying to launch chrome with an URL, the browser launches and it does nothing after that.
I am seeing the below error after 1 minute:
Unable to open browser with url: 'https://www.google.com' (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.39.562718 (9a2698cba08cf5a471a29d30c8b3e12becabb0e9),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
My configuration:
Chrome : 66
ChromeBrowser : 2.39.56
P.S everything works fine in Firefox
Thumb rule
A common cause for Chrome to crash during startup is running Chrome as root user (administrator) on Linux. While it is possible to work around this issue by passing --no-sandbox flag when creating your WebDriver session, such a configuration is unsupported and highly discouraged. You need to configure your environment to run Chrome as a regular user instead.
This error message...
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
Your code trials and the versioning information of all the binaries would have given us some hint about what's going wrong.
However as per Add --disable-dev-shm-usage to default launch flags seems adding the argument --disable-dev-shm-usage will temporary solve the issue.
If you desire to initiate/span a new Chrome Browser session you can use the following solution:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\path\\to\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("start-maximized"); // open Browser in maximized mode
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get("https://google.com");
disable-dev-shm-usage
As per base_switches.cc disable-dev-shm-usage seems to be valid only on Linux OS:
#if defined(OS_LINUX) && !defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
// The /dev/shm partition is too small in certain VM environments, causing
// Chrome to fail or crash (see http://crbug.com/715363). Use this flag to
// work-around this issue (a temporary directory will always be used to create
// anonymous shared memory files).
const char kDisableDevShmUsage[] = "disable-dev-shm-usage";
#endif
In the discussion Add an option to use /tmp instead of /dev/shm David mentions:
I think it would depend on how are /dev/shm and /tmp mounted.
If they are both mounted as tmpfs I'm assuming there won't be any difference.
if for some reason /tmp is not mapped as tmpfs (and I think is mapped as tmpfs by default by systemd), chrome shared memory management always maps files into memory when creating an anonymous shared files, so even in that case shouldn't be much difference. I guess you could force telemetry tests with the flag enabled and see how it goes.
As for why not use by default, it was a pushed back by the shared memory team, I guess it makes sense it should be useing /dev/shm for shared memory by default.
Ultimately all this should be moving to use memfd_create, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon, since it will require refactoring Chrome memory management significantly.
Reference
You can find a couple of detailed discussions in:
unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error while executing Selenium UI test cases on ubuntu
Tests fail immediately with unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist when running Selenium grid through systemd
Outro
Here is the link to the Sandbox story.
I started seeing this problem on Monday 2018-06-04. Our tests run each weekday. It appears that the only thing that changed was the google-chrome version (which had been updated to current) JVM and Selenium were recent versions on Linux box ( Java 1.8.0_151, selenium 3.12.0, google-chrome 67.0.3396.62, and xvfb-run).
Specifically adding the arguments "--no-sandbox" and "--disable-dev-shm-usage" stopped the error.
I'll look into these issues to find more info about the effect, and other questions as in what triggered google-chrome to update.
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
...
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
We were having the same issues on our jenkins slaves (linux machine) and tried all the options above.
The only thing helped is setting the argument
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
But when we investigated further, noticed that XVFB screen doesn't started property and thats causing this error. After we fix XVFB screen, it resolved the issue.
I had the same problem in python. The above helped. Here is what I used in python -
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/your_chrome_driver_dir/chromedriver',chrome_options=chrome_options)
I was facing the same issue recently and after some trial and error it worked for me as well.
MUST BE ON TOP:
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); //has to be the very first option
BaseSeleniumTests.java
public abstract class BaseSeleniumTests {
private static final String CHROMEDRIVER_EXE = "chromedriver.exe";
private static final String IEDRIVER_EXE = "IEDriverServer.exe";
private static final String FFDRIVER_EXE = "geckodriver.exe";
protected WebDriver driver;
#Before
public void setUp() {
loadChromeDriver();
}
#After
public void tearDown() {
if (driver != null) {
driver.close();
driver.quit();
}
}
private void loadChromeDriver() {
ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
String filePath = classLoader.getResource(CHROMEDRIVER_EXE).getFile();
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
ChromeDriverService service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
.usingDriverExecutable(new File(filePath))
.build();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model, MUST BE THE VERY FIRST OPTION
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
options.addArguments("start-maximized"); // open Browser in maximized mode
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.merge(capabilities);
this.driver = new ChromeDriver(service, options);
}
}
GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests.java
#RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
#SpringBootTest
public class GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests extends BaseSeleniumTests {
#Test
public void getSearchPage() {
this.driver.get("https://www.google.com");
WebElement element = this.driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
assertNotNull(element);
}
}
pom.xml
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
In my case in the following environment:
Windows 10
Python 3.7.5
Google Chrome version 80 and corresponding ChromeDriver in the path C:\Windows
selenium 3.141.0
I needed to add the arguments --no-sandbox and --remote-debugging-port=9222 to the ChromeOptions object and run the code as administrator user by lunching the Powershell/cmd as administrator.
Here is the related piece of code:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-infobars')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--remote-debugging-port=9222')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
I ran into this problem on Ubuntu 20 with Python Selenium after first downloading the chromedriver separately and then using sudo apt install chromium-browser Even though they were the same version this kept happening.
My fix was to use the provided chrome driver that came with the repo package located at
/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path='/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver')
Update:
I am able to get through the issue and now I am able to access the chrome with desired url.
Results of trying the provided solutions:
I tried all the settings as provided above but I was unable to resolve the issue
Explanation regarding the issue:
As per my observation DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist is caused when chrome is unable to find its reference in scoped_dirXXXXX folder.
Steps taken to solve the issue
I have killed all the chrome processes and chrome driver processes.
Added the below code to invoke the chrome
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","pathto\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get(url);
Using the above steps I was able to resolve the issue.
Thanks for your answers.
In my case it was problem with CI Agent account on ubuntu server, I solved this using custom --user-data-dir
chrome_options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=~/.config/google-chrome')
My account used by CI Agent didn't have necessary permissions, what was interesting everything was working on root account
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
chrome_options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
chrome_options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=~/.config/google-chrome')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
url = 'https://www.google.com'
driver.get(url)
get_url = driver.current_url
print(get_url)
There is lot of possible reasons for the RESPONSE InitSession ERROR unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error message (as we can see from the number of answers for this question). So let's dive deeper to explain what exactly this error message means.
According to chromedriver source code the message is created in ParseDevToolsActivePortFile method. This method is called from the loop after launching chrome process.
In the loop the driver check if the chrome process is still running and if the ParseDevToolsActivePortFile file was already created by chrome. There is a hardcoded 60s timeout for this loop.
I see two possible reasons for this message:
Chrome is really slow during startup - for example due to lack of system resources - mainly CPU or memory. In this case it can happen that sometimes chrome manage to start in time limit and sometimes not.
There is another issue which prevents chrome to start - missing or broken dependency, wrong configuration etc. In such case this error message is not really helpful and you should find another log message which explain the true reason of the failure.
It happens when chromedriver fails to figure out what debugging port chrome is using.
One possible cause is an open defect with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\UserDataDir
But in my last case, it was some other unidentified cause.
Fortunately setting port number manually worked:
final String[] args = { "--remote-debugging-port=9222" };
options.addArguments(args);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
As stated in this other answer:
This error message... implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
Among the possible causes, I would like to mention the fact that, in case you are running an headless Chromium via Xvfb, you might need to export the DISPLAY variable: in my case, I had in place (as recommended) the --disable-dev-shm-usage and --no-sandbox options, everything was running fine, but in a new installation running the latest (at the time of writing) Ubuntu 18.04 this error started to occurr, and the only possible fix was to execute an export DISPLAY=":20" (having previously started Xvfb with Xvfb :20&).
You can get this error simply for passing bad arguments to Chrome. For example, if I pass "headless" as an arg to the C# ChromeDriver, it fires up great. If I make a mistake and use the wrong syntax, "--headless", I get the DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error.
I was stuck on this for a very long time and finally fixed it by adding this an additional option:
options.addArguments("--crash-dumps-dir=/tmp")
I know it's an old question and it already has a lot of answers. However, I ran into this issue, bumped into this thread and none of the proposed solutions helped. After spending a few days(!) on it I finally found a solution:
My problem was that I was using the selenium/standalone-chrome image on a MacBook with M1 chip. After switching to seleniarm/standalone-chromium everything finally started to work.
I had the same issue, but in my case chrome previously was installed in user temp folder, after that was reinstalled to Program files. So any of solution provided here was not help me. But if provide path to chrome.exe all works:
chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe");
I hope this helps someone =)
In my case it happened when I've tried to use my default user profile:
...
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=D:\\MyHomeDirectory\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data");
...
This triggered chrome to reuse processes already running in background, in such a way, that process started by chromedriver.exe was simply ended.
Resolution: kill all chrome.exe processes running in background.
update capabilities in conf.js as
exports.config = {
seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
specs: ['todo-spec.js'],
capabilities: {
browserName: 'chrome',
chromeOptions: {
args: ['--disable-gpu', '--no-sandbox', '--disable-extensions', '--disable-dev-shm-usage']
}
},
};
Old question but a similar issue nearly drove me to insanity so sharing my solution. None of the other suggestions fixed my issue.
When I updated my Docker image Chrome installation from an old version to Chrome 86, I got this error. My setup was not identical but we were instantiating Chrome through a selenium webdriver.
The solution was to pass the options as goog:chromeOptions hash instead of chromeOptions hash. I truly don't know if this was a Selenium, Chrome, Chromedriver, or some other update, but maybe some poor soul will find solace in this answer in the future.
For Ubuntu 20 it did help me to use my systems chromium driver instead of the downloaded one:
# chromium which
/snap/bin/chromium
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver',
options=chrome_options)
And for the downloaded webdriver looks like it needs the remote debug port --remote-debugging-port=9222 to be set, as in one of the answers (by Soheil Pourbafrani):
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")
driver = webdriver.Chrome('<path_to>/chromedriver', options=chrome_options)
Date 9/16/2021
Everything works fine running chrome with selenium locally with python inside the docker hosted ubuntu container. When attempting to run from Jenkins the error above is returned WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort
Environment:
-Ubuntu21.04 inside a docker container with RDP access.
-chromedriver for chrome version: 93
Solution:
Inside the python file that starts the browser I had to set the DISPLAY environment variable using the following lines:
import os
os.environ['DISPLAY'] = ':10.0'
#DISPLAY_VAR = os.environ.get('DISPLAY')
#print("DISPLAY_VAR:", DISPLAY_VAR)
In my case, I was trying to create a runnable jar on Windows OS with chrome browser and want to run the same on headless mode in unix box with CentOs on it. And I was pointing my binary to a driver that I have downloaded and packaged with my suite. For me, this issue continue to occur irrespective of adding the below:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.args", "--disable-logging");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.silentOutput", "true");
options.setBinary("/pointing/downloaded/driver/path/in/automationsuite");
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("window-size=1024,768"); // Bypass OS security model
options.addArguments("--log-level=3"); // set log level
options.addArguments("--silent");//
options.setCapability("chrome.verbose", false); //disable logging
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
Solution that I've tried and worked for me is, download the chrome and its tools on the host VM/Unix box, install and point the binary to this in the automation suite and bingo! It works :)
Download command:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
Install command:
sudo yum install -y ./google-chrome-stable_current_*.rpm
Update suite with below binary path of google-chrome:
options.setBinary("/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome");
And.. it works!
I also faced this issue while integrating with jenkins server, I was used the root user for jenkin job, the issue was fixed when I changed the user to other user. I am not sure why this error occurs for the root user.
Google Chrome Version 71.0
ChromeDriver Version 2.45
CentOS7 Version 1.153
I run selenium tests with Jenkins running on an Ubuntu 18 LTS linux. I had this error until I added the argument 'headless' like this (and some other arguments):
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("headless"); // headless -> no browser window. needed for jenkins
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); // Bypass OS security model
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get("www.google.com");
Had the same issue. I am running the selenium script on Google cloud VM.
options.addArguments("--headless");
The above line resolved my issue. I removed the other optional arguments. I think the rest lines of code mentioned in other answers did not have any effect on resolving the issue on the cloud VM.
in my case, when i changed the google-chrome and chromedriver version, the error was fixed :)
#google-chrome version
[root#localhost ~]# /usr/bin/google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 83.0.4103.106
#chromedriver version
[root#localhost ~]# /usr/local/bin/chromedriver -v
ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.14 (be04594a2b8411758b860104bc0a1033417178be-refs/branch-heads/4103#{#119})
ps: selenium verison was 3.9.1
No solution worked for my. But here is a workaround:
maxcounter=5
for counter in range(maxcounter):
try:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options,
service_log_path=logfile,
service_args=["--verbose", "--log-path=%s" % logfile])
break
except WebDriverException as e:
print("RETRYING INITIALIZATION OF WEBDRIVER! Error: %s" % str(e))
time.sleep(10)
if counter==maxcounter-1:
raise WebDriverException("Maximum number of selenium-firefox-webdriver-retries exceeded.")
It seems there are many possible causes for this error. In our case, the error happened because we had the following two lines in code:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", chromeDriverPath);
chromeOptions.setBinary(chromeDriverPath);
It's solved by removing the second line.
I ran into same issue, i am using UBUNTU, PYTHON and OPERA browser. in my case the problem was originated because i had an outdated version of operadriver.
Solution:
1. Make sure you install latest opera browser version ( do not use opera beta or opera developer), for that go to the official opera site and download from there the latest opera_stable version.
Install latest opera driver (if you already have an opera driver install, you have to remove it first use sudo rm ...)
wget https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver/releases/download/v.80.0.3987.100/operadriver_linux64.zip
unzip operadriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv operadriver /usr/bin/operadriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/operadriver
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/operadriver
in my case latest was 80.0.3987 as you can see
Additionally i also installed chromedriver (but since i did it before testing, i do not know of this is needed) in order to install chromedriver, follow the steps on previous step :v
Enjoy and thank me!
Sample selenium code
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Opera()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.quit()
I came across the same problem, in my case there are two different common user userA and userB in Linux system.
userA first run the selinium programe which start chrome browswer with ChromeDriver successfully, when it came to userB, the DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist error occur.
I tried the --remote-debugging-port=9222 option, but it lead to a new exception:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
The I ran google-chome directory and see the following error:
mkdir /tmp/Crashpad/new: Permission denied (13)
The I search the problem and got this:
https://johncylee.github.io/2022/05/14/chrome-headless-%E6%A8%A1%E5%BC%8F%E4%B8%8B-devtoolsactiveport-file-doesn-t-exist-%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C/
chrome_options.add_argument(f"--crash-dumps-dir={os.path.expanduser('~/tmp/Crashpad')}")
Thanks to #johncylee.

Selenium Python Windows "cannot connect to the service"

I've trawled the web and SO for a good few hours and have exhausted all solutions I can find. Windows 10 / Chrome 87.0 / Python 3.
from selenium import webdriver
DRIVER_PATH = r'./chromedriver/chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=DRIVER_PATH)
returns:
WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service ./chromedriver/chromedriver.exe
I have made sure that the chromedriver is added to path
I have added 127.0.0.1 localhost to a clean hosts file in %windir%\System32\drivers\etc
I have tried specifying the driver path explicitly and implicitly
You need to insert the entire path, on windows its like this:
executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe'
This os path...
r'./chromedriver/chromedriver.exe'
...refers to the ChromeDriver executable within the chromedriver sub-directory which is located in the same directory from where your program executes.
By all possible means r'./chromedriver/chromedriver.exe' is not the actual location of the ChromeDriver executable within your system. Hence you see the error.
Solution
Pass the absolute path of the ChromeDriver as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
DRIVER_PATH = r'C:\..\..\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=DRIVER_PATH)
References
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service chromedriver.exe while opening chrome browser
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service error using ChromeDriver Chrome through Selenium Python
Python Selenium “Can not connect to the Service %s” % self.path in linux server

Selenium server throws error when attempting to run test with chrome or Internet Explorer

I have a python webdriver script which successfully runs the test on the remote server using firefox, however it throws an error when using chrome and internet explorer.
I have added the directory with both drivers to the server's path. I have also tried starting the server using:
java -jar .\selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0.jar -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=.\IEDriverServer.exe -role hub
I consistently get the same error in powershell:
"... - Exception: The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property;..."
Working Script:
def setUp(self):
self.wd = webdriver.Remote(
desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX)
Throws Error:
def setUp(self):
self.wd = webdriver.Remote(
desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)
What is the culprit of this problem?
You have the Selenium driver for Firefox installed and configured, but not for Chrome. Installing and configuring boils down to this (source):
Setup
ChromeDriver is a separate executable that WebDriver uses to control
Chrome. It is maintained by the Chromium team with help from WebDriver
contributors. If you are unfamiliar with WebDriver, you should check
out their own Getting Started page.
Follow these steps to setup your tests for running with ChromeDriver:
Ensure Chromium/Google Chrome is installed in a recognized location
ChromeDriver expects you to have Chrome installed in the default
location for your platform. You can also force ChromeDriver to use a
custom location by setting a special capability.
Download the ChromeDriver binary for your platform under the downloads section of this site
Help WebDriver find the downloaded ChromeDriver executable
Any of these steps should do the trick:
include the ChromeDriver location in your PATH environment variable
(Java only) specify its location via the webdriver.chrome.driver system property (see sample below)
(Python only) include the path to ChromeDriver when instantiating webdriver.Chrome (see sample below)
So, basically, you need to either set the path to your Chrome drive in the PATH, or instantiate the drive like this:
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')
Download the Chromedriver
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\\Users\\xxx\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("http://www.seleniumhq.org/")
The code is for JAVA , set the path similarly in python
If the PATH is not set in your environment variable , then set it programmatically as below:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "Path_to_your_chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();

ChromeDriver Does Not Open Websites

I am experiencing a very strange behaviour when testing Chrome via selenium webdriver.
Instead of navigating to pages like one would expect the 'get' command leads only to the download of tiny files (no type or.apsx files) from the target site.
Importantly - this behavior only occurs when I pass chrome_options as an argument
to the Chrome driver.
The same testing scripts work flawless with firefox driver.
Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options # tried with and without
proxy = '127.0.0.1:9951' # connects to a proxy application
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % proxy)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get('whatismyip.com')
Leads to the automatic download of a file called download (no file extension, Size 2 Byte).
While calling other sites results in the download of small aspx files.
This all happens while the browser page remains blank and no interaction with
elements happen = the site is not loaded at all.
No error message, except element not found is thrown.
This is really strange.
Additional info:
I run Debian Wheezy 32 bit and use Python 2.7.
Any suggestions how to solve this issue?
I tried your code and captured the traffic on localhost using an SOCKS v5 proxy through SSH. It is definitely sending data through the proxy but no data is coming back. I have confirmed the proxy was working using Firefox.
I'm running Google Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit. My Chrome browser gives me the following message when I try to configure a proxy in its settings menu:
When running Google Chrome under a supported desktop environment, the
system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not
supported or there was a problem launching your system configuration.
But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man
google-chrome-stable for more information on flags and environment
variables.
Unfortunately I don't have a man page for google-chrome-stable.
I also discovered that according to the selenium documentation Chrome is using the system wide proxy settings and according to their documentation it is unknown how to set the proxy in Chrome programmatically: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#using-a-proxy

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