ChromeWebDriver - unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed

Question

I\'m trying to test my application on Chrome with ChromeWebDriver but every time I try I get following exception:

   org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:          


        

Answer 1

Eventually I found out that WebDriver was trying to run Chrome from C:\Users\______\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe, which was not working even when trying it manually. It was very strange because when I launch Chrome I use one installed in Program Files directory and it works without problems.

So I had uninstalled Chrome, deleted everything from c:\Users______\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\ and installed Chrome again. After that it started working.

Answer 2

im pretty sure looking at your error that your bindings for chrome may not be right - please try removing all your references to chrome and removing it from your project. then, if you havent already, install Nuget Packet Manager and download chrome webdriver from there - note there are 2 one by chromium and one from selenium.

hope this helps - let me know and if not ill take a closer look at it.

Answer 3

I had the same problem as above. and I solved it. I run selenium with chromium in alpine. My environment:

• Alpine (Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64)
• Chromium 53.0.2785.92
• chromedriver=2.22
• selenium (3.0.1)

and I met the error information is：

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error:    Chrome failed to start: crashed
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.22 (5e2d5494d735a71aa5c2e7ef9bf5ce96945e92e9),platform=Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64)

My solution is run:

apk add libexif udev

and Then it works.

I refer to here : https://hub.docker.com/r/rodrigomiguele/chromium/~/dockerfile/

Answer 4

Uninstall, delete chrome profile from c:\Users______L\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\ and reinstall chrome will fix the problem, it worked for me