WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser

Question

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:

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Answer 1

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')