The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed for Selenium

Question

I’m running a jupyter notebook on ubuntu server. I’m trying run the selenium code below using chromedriver. I’m getting the error below but if I run the line of code below

Answer 1

This error message...

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
  (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=74.0.3729.6 (255758eccf3d244491b8a1317aa76e1ce10d57e9-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#29}),platform=Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64)

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• You are using chromedriver=74.0.3729.6
• Release Notes of chromedriver=74.0.3729.6 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v74

• Perhaps you are using the last GAed version of Chrome Browser i.e. chrome=73.x

So there is a clear mismatch between the ChromeDriver v74.0.3729.6 and the Chrome Browser v73.x

Solution

• Downgrade ChromeDriver to ChromeDriver v73.0.3683.68 level.
• Keep Chrome version at Chrome v73 level. (as per ChromeDriver v73.0.3683.68 release notes)
• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
• Execute your @Test.
• Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.