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WebDriverException: Message: Service geckodriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 64 error using Selenium Geckodriver Firefox in FreeBSD jail

For some tests, I've set up a plain new TrueNAS 12.3 FreeBSD Jail and started it, then installed python3, firefox, geckodriver and pip using the following commands:
pkg install python3 firefox geckodriver py38-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
setenv CRYPTOGRAPHY_DONT_BUILD_RUST 1
pip install cryptography==3.4.7
pip install selenium
Afterwards, when I want to use Selenium with Firefox in my Python code, it does not work:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
it brings
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 174, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 110, in assert_process_still_running
raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service geckodriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 64
Funnily, on another Jail that I've set up approximately a year ago (approximately in the mentioned way as well), it just works and does not throw the error (so different versions maybe?)!
This is the only content of geckodriver.log:
geckodriver: error: Found argument '--websocket-port' which wasn't expected, orisn't valid in this context
USAGE:
geckodriver [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]
For more information try --help
Is there anything I could try to get it working? I've already seen this question, but it seems fairly outdated.
Firefox 95.0.2, geckodriver 0.26.0, Python 3.8.12, Selenium 4.1.0

This error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service geckodriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 64
and the GeckoDriver log...
geckodriver: error: Found argument '--websocket-port' which wasn't expected, orisn't valid in this context
...implies that the GeckoDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. firefox session.
Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:
Your Selenium Client version is 4.1.0.
But your GeckoDriver version is 0.26.0.
As #ernstki mentions in their comment:
You are running a geckodriver older than 0.30.0, and it is missing the --websocket-port option, which newer/new-ish versions of Selenium seem to depend on.
To put it in simple words, till the previous GeckoDriver release of v0.29.0 the --websocket-port option wasn't in use, which is now mandatory with Selenium v4.0.1.
Further #whimboo also confirmed in his comment:
As it has been manifested the problem here is not geckodriver but Selenium. As such you should create an issue on the Selenium repository instead, so that an option could be added to not always pass the --websocket-port argument. If that request gets denied you will have to use older releases of Selenium if testing with older geckodriver releases is really needed.
Solution
Ensure that:
Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 4.1.0.
GeckoDriver is upgraded to GeckoDriver v0.30.0 level.
Firefox is upgraded to current Firefox v96.0.2 levels.
FreeBSD versions
Incase you are using FreeBSD versions where the GeckoDriver versions are older, in those cases you have to downgrade Selenium to v3.x levels.
Commands (courtesy: Kurtibert):
Uninstall Selenium:
pip3 uninstall selenium;
Install Selenium:
pip3 install 'selenium<4.0.0'

I added the following codes to my dockerfile and my problem was solved. My problems were with the version.
My problem is solved with Selenium 4.1.0 and geckodriver v30.
RUN pip install -U selenium==4.1.0
RUN wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.30.0/geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz
RUN tar -x geckodriver -zf geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz -O > /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
RUN rm geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz

OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: 'chromedriver' using Chromedriver on Ubuntu server

I'm trying to use Chromedriver with Ubuntu (AWS instance). I've gotten Chromedriver to work no problem in a local instance, but having many, many issues doing so in a remote instance.
I'm using the following code:
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/usr/bin/chromedriver', chrome_options=options)
However, I keep getting this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 39, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 729, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1364, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: 'chromedriver'
I believe I'm using the most updated version of Selenium, Chrome, and Chromedriver.
Chrome version is:Version 78.0.3904.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Selenium:
ubuntu#ip-172-31-31-200:/usr/bin$ pip3 show selenium
Name: selenium
Version: 3.141.0
Summary: Python bindings for Selenium
Home-page: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/
Author: UNKNOWN
Author-email: UNKNOWN
License: Apache 2.0
Location: /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requires: urllib3
And, finally, for Chromedriver, I'm almost certain I downloaded the most recent version here: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=78.0.3904.70/. It's the mac_64 version (I'm using Ubuntu on a Mac). I then placed chromedriver in /usr/bin , as I read that's common practice.
I have no idea why this isn't working. A few options I can think of:
some sort of access issue? I'm a beginner with command line and ubuntu - should I be running this as "root" user?
mis-match between Chromedriver and Chrome versions? Is there a way to tell which chromedriver version I have for certain?
I see that Chromedriver and Selenium are in different locations. Selenium is in: Location: /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages and I've moved chromedriver to: /usr/bin . Could this be causing problems?

Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (64-bit Arm):
Download Chrome: wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Install Chrome: sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
If you'll get error run: sudo apt-get -f install
Check Chrome: google-chrome --version
Download chromedriver for Linux: wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/78.0.3904.70/chromedriver_linux64.zip
Unzip chromedriver, install unzip sudo apt install unzip if required: unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
Move chromedriver to /usr/bin: sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
Check chromedriver, run command: chromedriver
Install Java: sudo apt install default-jre
Install Selenium: sudo pip3 install selenium
Create test file, nano test.py with content below. Press CTRL+X to exit and the Y to save. Execute your script - python3 test.py
#!/usr/bin/python3
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")
try:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
s = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
assert s.is_displayed() is True
print("ok")
except Exception as ex:
print(ex)
driver.quit()
Example of using Docker and selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:
Install docker, installation steps are here
Start container, using sudo docker run -d -p 4444:4444 -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm selenium/standalone-chrome:3.141.59-xenon command, different options are here
Open Security Group of your instance in AWS and add TCP rule to be able to connect. You can add only your own IP and port 4444 for Selenium
Run test from local
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor="http://your_instance_ip:4444/wd/hub",
desired_capabilities=options.to_capabilities())

I am running the following on ec2-ubuntu:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver", chrome_options=options) #Give the full path to chromedriver
Try it. Incase it doesn't work I will find more of the settings.

Python Selenium Geckodriver Connection refused

I spent hours trying to make Selenium works with Python no luck
this error message
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused
this is the example I have used:-
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.python.org')
browser.close()
This is depence I intalled
apt-get install -y xorg xvfb dbus-x11 xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic
This is /root/geckodriver.log output
1493938773101 geckodriver INFO Listening on 127.0.0.1:40876
1493938774156 geckodriver::marionette INFO Starting browser
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh with args ["-marionette"] (firefox:3128):
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count >
0' failed
I'm running Selenium on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit VPS remote server with 128MB RAM
I can't figure out what's make Selenium not able to communicate with browsers drivers both Chrome and Firefox.

Please start with checking your "firefox" browser version.
I found it very confusing at some point. I'm using the Raspbian and the "Iceweasel" downloaded with apt-get was a Firefox 52 version which didn't work with geckodriver 0.19 (this one requires Firefox 55 or greater).
What worked for me was to download geckorvider v0.16 and that resolved the problem.
Whats moreover, you probably don't need xorg to make it work, the only packages I needed was xfvb and iceweasel.

Ok, I gave up on Geckodriver and I use PhantomJS as my webdriver.
from selenium import webdriver
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get('http://www.python.org')
html_source = driver.page_source
print ("html_source:",html_source)
driver.quit()
Here are the steps I used to install PhantomJS :
cd ~
export PHANTOM_JS="phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64"
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
mv $PHANTOM_JS /usr/local/share
ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin
Python Selenium
apt-get install python-pip -y
pip uninstall pyvirtualdisplay
apt-get install x11vnc xvfb fluxbox
Xvfb :99 -ac
xvfb-run -a python 99.py
pip uninstall selenium
pip install selenium==2.53.1
See also How to install PhantomJS on Ubuntu.

Can't install Selenium WebDriver with Python

I am trying to install Selenium WebDriver with Python on my Mac. I used this command:
sudo easy_install selenium
After that, I tried the following simple test:
python
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
And I got the following error. What am I doing wrong?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.0.0.b3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 68, in init
self.service.start() File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium-3.0.0.b3-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 71, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

If you call a selenium driver without any arguments, the path to the webdriver executable must be in the system PATH environment variables.
Alternatively, you can specify the path explicitly as such:
driver = webdriver.Firefox("path/to/the/FireFoxExecutable")

The error is telling you that it can't find geckodriver. geckodriver is an additional component that you must install to control Firefox. It's not included with the selenium package, so it must be installed separately.
The following shell script will download the latest geckodriver from Mozilla's repo and place it in usr/local/bin, so it can be found on your PATH:
#!/bin/sh
url=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest" | python -c "import sys, json; r = json.load(sys.stdin); print [a for a in r['assets'] if 'linux64' in a['name']][0]['browser_download_url'];")
curl -L -o geckodriver.tar.gz $url
tar -xzf geckodriver.tar.gz
chmod +x geckodriver
sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin
(run this script after you install selenium via pip or easy_install)

Python - Selenium in Ubuntu OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory

After installing Selenium in Ubuntu and adding geckodriver to path I get this error when I run
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 135, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 64, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory
What's going on?
EDIT: Solved using chromedriver instead of geckodriver.

Had the same problem. There were two ways to fix this for me:
Add executable_path arg in webdriver:
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/path/to/geckodriver')
And the second way its to add folder that contains geckodriver using export (only folder, not geckodriver):
$ export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/

In addition to the answer by #Poloq, the simplest way would be keeping your geckodriver binary in a directory which is already in your PATH.
mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin
This way you can avoid additional settings/configurations in your project with the downside of having an additional step when deploying on different systems.

The problem is that you renamed "geckodriver" to "wires".
The solution is to add "geckodriver" to search path then it should work.

In addition to the provided answers, there is also this option where you can copy the driver to /usr/bin:
sudo cp geckodriver /usr/bin

Selenium is available from the default Ubuntu repositories in Ubuntu 16.04 and later. To install selenium open the terminal and type:
sudo apt install python-selenium # for Python 2.x
and/or
sudo apt install python3-selenium # for Python 3.x
Then type python to start the Python interpreter and from selenium import webdriver should work like this:
$ python
>>> from selenium import webdriver
Assuming that the path ~/.local/bin is in your execution PATH, here's how to install the Firefox webdriver, called geckodriver:
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.20.1/geckodriver-v0.20.1-linux64.tar.gz
tar xvfz geckodriver-v0.20.1-linux64.tar.gz
mv geckodriver ~/.local/bin
source:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1041541/i-want-to-install-selenium-webdriver-in-my-ubuntu-16-04-system-for-python