Selenium Chromedriver Hangs?

Question

I have a long running python app that will periodically (every 30-60 seconds) open a webpage with selenium and chrome driver, run some javascript and take a screenshot. Its runn

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue and found the answer here and blogged about it here. Setting the environment variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=/dev/null worked for me without having to restart Xvfb all the time.

Answer 2

I never found out the specific piece of code that was causing this problem, but creating a fresh instance of Xvfb with each driver load seems to have fixed it. Perhaps there is a memory leak somewhere in the interaction between selenium and Xvfb? Either way, marking this as closed.