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

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.")