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 use chromium but I have created a shell script called chrome just to be easy for me to open the browser from dmenu.

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/chromium

Chrome driver looking for chrome in PATH and executes that. In result I got the same error.

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location /home/s1n7ax/.local/share/s1n7ax/bin/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:17:03'
System info: host: 's1n7ax', ip: '127.0.1.16', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '5.4.70-1-lts', java.version: '11.0.8'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
remote stacktrace: #0 0x56030c96dd99 

I just removed the shell script and added a soft link to chromium. Everything working now.