WebDriverException unknown error DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser

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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    Unable to open browser with url   https   www google com   Root cause  org openqa selenium WebDriverException  unknown error  DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist    Driver info  chromedriver 2 39 562718  9a2698cba08cf5a471a29d30c8b3e12becabb0e9  platform Windows NT 10 0 15063 x86 64   WARNING  The server did not provide any stacktrace information    My configuration    Chrome   66 ChromeBrowser   2 39 56   P S everything works fine in Firefox

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I also faced this issue while integrating with jenkins server  I was used the root user for jenkin job  the issue was fixed when I changed the user to other user  I am not sure why this error occurs for the root user    Google Chrome Version 71 0 ChromeDriver Version 2 45 CentOS7 Version 1 153

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I had the same error  and I found out that the cause was because my computer disk was full  After deleting some unnecessary files  the error went away

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Thumb rule  A common cause for Chrome to crash during startup is running Chrome as root user  administrator  on Linux  While it is possible to work around this issue by passing --no-sandbox flag when creating your WebDriver session  such a configuration is unsupported and highly discouraged  You need to configure your environment to run Chrome as a regular user instead    This error message    org openqa selenium WebDriverException  unknown error  DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist      implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate spawn a new WebBrowser i e  Chrome Browser session  Your code trials and the versioning information of all the binaries would have given us some hint about what s going wrong  However as per Add --disable-dev-shm-usage to default launch flags seems adding the argument --disable-dev-shm-usage will temporary solve the issue  If you desire to initiate span a new Chrome Browser session you can use the following solution  System setProperty  quot webdriver chrome driver quot    quot C   path  to  chromedriver exe quot    ChromeOptions options   new ChromeOptions    options addArguments  quot start-maximized quot       open Browser in maximized mode options addArguments  quot disable-infobars quot       disabling infobars options addArguments  quot --disable-extensions quot       disabling extensions options addArguments  quot --disable-gpu quot       applicable to windows os only options addArguments  quot --disable-dev-shm-usage quot       overcome limited resource problems options addArguments  quot --no-sandbox quot       Bypass OS security model WebDriver driver   new ChromeDriver options   driver get  quot https   google com quot      disable-dev-shm-usage As per base switches cc disable-dev-shm-usage seems to be valid only on Linux OS   if defined OS LINUX   amp  amp   defined OS CHROMEOS     The  dev shm partition is too small in certain VM environments  causing    Chrome to fail or crash  see http   crbug com 715363   Use this flag to    work-around this issue  a temporary directory will always be used to create    anonymous shared memory files   const char kDisableDevShmUsage      quot disable-dev-shm-usage quot    endif  In the discussion Add an option to use  tmp instead of  dev shm David mentions   I think it would depend on how are  dev shm and  tmp mounted  If they are both mounted as tmpfs I m assuming there won t be any difference  if for some reason  tmp is not mapped as tmpfs  and I think is mapped as tmpfs by default by systemd   chrome shared memory management always maps files into memory when creating an anonymous shared files  so even in that case shouldn t be much difference  I guess you could force telemetry tests with the flag enabled and see how it goes    As for why not use by default  it was a pushed back by the shared memory team  I guess it makes sense it should be useing  dev shm for shared memory by default    Ultimately all this should be moving to use memfd create  but I don t think that s going to happen any time soon  since it will require refactoring Chrome memory management significantly    Reference You can find a couple of detailed discussions in   unknown error  DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist error while executing Selenium UI test cases on ubuntu Tests fail immediately with unknown error  DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist when running Selenium grid through systemd   Outro Here is the link to the Sandbox story

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My problem was a bug in php-webdriver  My code was   chromeOptions   new ChromeOptions     chromeOptions- gt addArguments        --headless        --no-sandbox        --disable-gpu        --disable-dev-shm-usage        --no-proxy-server       chromeOptions- gt setExperimentalOption  detach   true    capabilities   DesiredCapabilities  chrome     capabilities- gt setCapability      ChromeOptions  CAPABILITY       chromeOptions     as you can see  everything is in line with the rest of possible reasons  But actually capabilities weren t passing to chromedriver  I had to change setting chrome options capability to   capabilities- gt setCapability      ChromeOptions  CAPABILITY W3C      lt  lt  lt  Have to use W3C capabilities with recent versions of Chromedriver       chromeOptions- gt toArray       lt  lt  lt  lt  lt  bug in php-webdriver 1 9  object not getting serialized automatically like with the deprecated capability ChromeOptions  CAPABILITY     My setup was    chromedriver --version ChromeDriver 79 0 3945 36  3582db32b33893869b8c1339e8f4d9ed1816f143-refs branch-heads 3945   614     java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3 141 59 jar --version Selenium server version  3 141 59  revision  e82be7d358  Made a bug report and a PR to fix this bug in php-webdriver https   github com php-webdriver php-webdriver issues 849

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Old question but a similar issue nearly drove me to insanity so sharing my solution  None of the other suggestions fixed my issue  When I updated my Docker image Chrome installation from an old version to Chrome 86  I got this error  My setup was not identical but we were instantiating Chrome through a selenium webdriver  The solution was to pass the options as goog chromeOptions hash instead of chromeOptions hash  I truly don t know if this was a Selenium  Chrome  Chromedriver  or some other update  but maybe some poor soul will find solace in this answer in the future

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In my case in the following environment    Windows 10 Python 3 7 5 Google Chrome version 80 and corresponding ChromeDriver in the path C  Windows selenium 3 141 0   I needed to add the arguments --no-sandbox and --remote-debugging-port 9222 to the ChromeOptions object and run the code as administrator user by lunching the Powershell cmd as administrator   Here is the related piece of code   options   webdriver ChromeOptions   options add argument  headless   options add argument  --disable-infobars   options add argument  --disable-dev-shm-usage   options add argument  --no-sandbox   options add argument  --remote-debugging-port 9222   driver   webdriver Chrome options options

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In my case  I was trying to create a runnable jar on Windows OS with chrome browser and want to run the same on headless mode in unix box with CentOs on it  And I was pointing my binary to a driver that I have downloaded and packaged with my suite  For me  this issue continue to occur irrespective of adding the below   ChromeOptions options   new ChromeOptions    options addArguments  --headless    options addArguments  --no-sandbox    System setProperty  webdriver chrome args    --disable-logging    System setProperty  webdriver chrome silentOutput    true    options setBinary   pointing downloaded driver path in automationsuite    options addArguments  --disable-dev-shm-usage       overcome limited resource problems options addArguments  disable-infobars       disabling infobars options addArguments  --disable-extensions       disabling extensions options addArguments  --disable-gpu       applicable to windows os only options addArguments  --disable-dev-shm-usage       overcome limited resource problems options addArguments  window-size 1024 768       Bypass OS security model options addArguments  --log-level 3       set log level options addArguments  --silent      options setCapability  chrome verbose   false     disable logging driver   new ChromeDriver options     Solution that I ve tried and worked for me is  download the chrome and its tools on the host VM Unix box  install and point the binary to this in the automation suite and bingo  It works     Download command   wget https   dl google com linux direct google-chrome-stable current x86 64 rpm   Install command    sudo yum install -y   google-chrome-stable current   rpm   Update suite with below binary path of google-chrome   options setBinary   opt google chrome google-chrome      And   it works

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TL DR  If you are using VirtualBox shared folders  do not create the Chrome profile there   I ran into this error under Debian 10  but it did not occur under Ubuntu 18 04  In my Selenium tests  I wanted to install an extension  and use the following Chrome options  chromeOptions addArguments     load-extension   this extensionDir       user-data-dir   this profileDir       disable-gpu      no-sandbox      disable-setuid-sandbox      disable-dev-shm-usage       The issue was that I was attempting to create a Chrome profile under a nonstandard directory which was part of a VirtualBox shared folder  Despite using the exact same version of Chrome and Chromedriver  it didn t work under Debian  The solution was to choose a profile directory somewhere else  e g    chrome-profile

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I ran into the same issue running Chrome via Behat Mink and Selenium in a Docker container  After some fiddling  I arrived at the following behat yml which supplies the switches mentioned above  Note that all of them were required for me to get it running successfully   default      extensions          Behat MinkExtension              base url  https   my app              default session  selenium2             selenium2                  browser  chrome                 capabilities                      extra capabilities                          chromeOptions                              args                                  -  headless                                  -  no-sandbox                                  -  disable-dev-shm-usage

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I solve this problem by installing yum -y install gtk3-devel gtk3-devel-docs   it works ok  My work env is     Selenium Version 3 12 0 ChromeDriver Version v2 40 Chrome 68 level   Before         After

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I ran into same issue  i am using UBUNTU  PYTHON and OPERA browser  in my case the problem was originated because i had an outdated version of operadriver   Solution  1  Make sure you install latest opera browser version   do not use opera beta or opera developer   for that go to the official opera site and download from there the latest opera stable version    Install latest opera driver  if you already have an opera driver install  you have to remove it first use sudo rm        wget https   github com operasoftware operachromiumdriver releases download v 80 0 3987 100 operadriver linux64 zip     unzip operadriver linux64 zip    sudo mv operadriver  usr bin operadriver    sudo chown root root  usr bin operadriver    sudo chmod  x  usr bin operadriver   in my case latest was 80 0 3987 as you can see   Additionally i also installed chromedriver  but since i did it before testing  i do not know of this is needed  in order to install chromedriver  follow the steps on previous step  v Enjoy and thank me    Sample selenium code  from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver common keys import Keys driver   webdriver Opera   driver get  http   www python org   assert  Python  in driver title elem   driver find element by name  q   elem clear   elem send keys  pycon   elem send keys Keys RETURN  assert  No results found   not in driver page source driver quit

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You can get this error simply for passing bad arguments to Chrome  For example  if I pass  headless  as an arg to the C  ChromeDriver  it fires up great  If I make a mistake and use the wrong syntax   --headless   I get the DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist error

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Since this is the most active message for this type of error  I wanted to mention my solution  after spending hours to fix this    On Ubuntu 18 04  using Chrome 70 and Chromedriver 2 44  and Python3  I kept getting the same DevToolsActivePort error  even when I disabled all options listed above  The chromedriver log file as well as ps showed that the chromedriver I set in chrome options binary location was running  but it always gave DevToolsActivePort error  When I removed chrome options binary location        and add it to webdriver creation  I get it working fine  webdriver Chrome   path to      chromedriver  chrome options chrome options   Thanks everybody for your comments that make me understand and resolve the issue

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As stated in this other answer      This error message    implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate spawn a new WebBrowser i e  Chrome Browser session    Among the possible causes  I would like to mention the fact that  in case you are running an headless Chromium via Xvfb  you might need to export the DISPLAY variable  in my case  I had in place  as recommended  the --disable-dev-shm-usage and --no-sandbox options  everything was running fine  but in a new installation running the latest  at the time of writing  Ubuntu 18 04 this error started to occurr  and the only possible fix was to execute an export DISPLAY   20   having previously started Xvfb with Xvfb  20 amp

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

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I had the same problem in python  The above helped  Here is what I used in python -   chrome options   Options   chrome options add argument  --headless   chrome options add argument  --no-sandbox   chrome options add argument  --disable-dev-shm-usage   driver   webdriver Chrome   path to your chrome driver dir chromedriver  chrome options chrome options

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I was facing the same issue recently and after some trial and error it worked for me as well   MUST BE ON TOP    options addArguments  --no-sandbox      has to be the very first option   BaseSeleniumTests java  public abstract class BaseSeleniumTests        private static final String CHROMEDRIVER EXE    chromedriver exe       private static final String IEDRIVER EXE    IEDriverServer exe       private static final String FFDRIVER EXE    geckodriver exe       protected WebDriver driver        Before     public void setUp             loadChromeDriver                After     public void tearDown             if  driver    null                driver close                driver quit                         private void loadChromeDriver             ClassLoader classLoader   getClass   getClassLoader            String filePath   classLoader getResource CHROMEDRIVER EXE  getFile            DesiredCapabilities capabilities   DesiredCapabilities chrome            ChromeDriverService service   new ChromeDriverService Builder                    usingDriverExecutable new File filePath                    build            ChromeOptions options   new ChromeOptions            options addArguments  --no-sandbox       Bypass OS security model  MUST BE THE VERY FIRST OPTION         options addArguments  --headless            options setExperimentalOption  useAutomationExtension   false           options addArguments  start-maximized       open Browser in maximized mode         options addArguments  disable-infobars       disabling infobars         options addArguments  --disable-extensions       disabling extensions         options addArguments  --disable-gpu       applicable to windows os only         options addArguments  --disable-dev-shm-usage       overcome limited resource problems         options merge capabilities           this driver   new ChromeDriver service  options              GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests java   RunWith SpringRunner class   SpringBootTest public class GoogleSearchPageTraditionalSeleniumTests extends BaseSeleniumTests         Test     public void getSearchPage             this driver get  https   www google com            WebElement element   this driver findElement By name  q             assertNotNull element              pom xml   lt dependencies gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter lt  artifactId gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-test lt  artifactId gt               lt scope gt test lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org seleniumhq selenium lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt selenium-java lt  artifactId gt               lt scope gt test lt  scope gt           lt  dependency gt   lt  dependencies gt

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Wrong port number in my case  Check if port number when starting Selenium server is the same as in your script

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Had the same issue  I am running the selenium script on Google cloud VM  options addArguments  quot --headless quot     The above line resolved my issue  I removed the other optional arguments  I think the rest lines of code mentioned in other answers did not have any effect on resolving the issue on the cloud VM

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I ran into this problem on Ubuntu 20 with Python Selenium after first downloading the chromedriver separately and then using sudo apt install chromium-browser Even though they were the same version this kept happening   My fix was to use the provided chrome driver that came with the repo package located at       snap bin chromium chromedriver   driver   webdriver Chrome chrome options options  executable path   snap bin chromium chromedriver

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In my case  I m in a Kubernetes environment where I cannot use the default TMPDIR because it will fill up the temp directory with garbage   So I was using this to use a different tmpdir   driver   new ChromeDriver new ChromeDriverService Builder                        withEnvironment ImmutableMap of  TMPDIR   customTmpPath                        build    options     But now that I ve upgraded everything to the latest  this no longer seems to work  I will need to find a new way to do this

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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

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In my case it was problem with CI Agent account on ubuntu server  I solved this using custom --user-data-dir chrome options add argument  --user-data-dir    config google-chrome   My account used by CI Agent didn t have necessary permissions  what was interesting everything was working on root account from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver chrome options import Options  chrome options   Options   chrome options add argument  --no-sandbox   chrome options add argument  --headless   chrome options add argument  --disable-gpu   chrome options add argument  --disable-dev-shm-usage   chrome options add argument  --profile-directory Default   chrome options add argument  --user-data-dir    config google-chrome    driver   webdriver Chrome options chrome options  url    https   www google com  driver get url   get url   driver current url  print get url

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We were having the same issues on our jenkins slaves  linux machine  and tried all the options above    The only thing helped is setting the argument  chrome options add argument  --headless     But when we investigated further  noticed that XVFB screen doesn t started property and thats causing this error  After we fix XVFB screen  it resolved the issue

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update capabilities in conf js as  exports config       seleniumAddress   http   localhost 4444 wd hub     specs    todo-spec js      capabilities        browserName   chrome       chromeOptions          args    --disable-gpu    --no-sandbox    --disable-extensions    --disable-dev-shm-usage

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It happens when chromedriver fails to figure out what debugging port chrome is using    One possible cause is an open defect with HKEY CURRENT USER Software Policies Google Chrome UserDataDir  But in my last case  it was some other unidentified cause   Fortunately setting port number manually worked   final String   args      --remote-debugging-port 9222     options addArguments args   WebDriver driver   new ChromeDriver options

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I had the same issue  but in my case chrome previously was installed in user temp folder  after that was reinstalled to Program files  So any of solution provided here was not help me  But if provide path to chrome exe all works   chromeOptions setBinary  C   Program Files  x86   Google  Chrome  Application  chrome exe      I hope this helps someone

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For Ubuntu 20 it did help me to use my systems chromium driver instead of the downloaded one    chromium which  snap bin chromium  driver   webdriver Chrome   snap bin chromium chromedriver                             options chrome options   And for the downloaded webdriver looks like it needs the remote debug port --remote-debugging-port 9222 to be set  as in one of the answers  by Soheil Pourbafrani   chrome options   webdriver ChromeOptions   chrome options add argument  quot --remote-debugging-port 9222 quot   driver   webdriver Chrome   lt path to gt  chromedriver   options chrome options

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I started seeing this problem on Monday 2018-06-04  Our tests run each weekday  It appears that the only thing that changed was the google-chrome version  which had been updated to current  JVM and Selenium were recent versions on Linux box   Java 1 8 0 151  selenium 3 12 0  google-chrome 67 0 3396 62  and xvfb-run   Specifically adding the arguments  --no-sandbox  and  --disable-dev-shm-usage  stopped the error   I ll look into these issues to find more info about the effect  and other questions as in what triggered google-chrome to update   ChromeOptions options   new ChromeOptions                        options addArguments  --no-sandbox            options addArguments  --disable-dev-shm-usage

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In my case it happened when I ve tried to use my default user profile       options addArguments  user-data-dir D   MyHomeDirectory  Google  Chrome  User Data          This triggered chrome to reuse processes already running in background  in such a way  that process started by chromedriver exe was simply ended   Resolution  kill all chrome exe processes running in background

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I run selenium tests with Jenkins running on an Ubuntu 18 LTS linux  I had this error until I added the argument  headless  like this  and some other arguments   ChromeOptions options   new ChromeOptions    options addArguments  quot headless quot       headless - gt  no browser window  needed for jenkins options addArguments  quot disable-infobars quot       disabling infobars options addArguments  quot --disable-extensions quot       disabling extensions options addArguments  quot --disable-dev-shm-usage quot       overcome limited resource problems options addArguments  quot --no-sandbox quot       Bypass OS security model ChromeDriver driver   new ChromeDriver options    driver get  quot www google com quot

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Update   I am able to get through the issue and now I am able to access the chrome with desired url   Results of trying the provided solutions   I tried all the settings as provided above but I was unable to resolve the issue  Explanation regarding the issue   As per my observation DevToolsActivePort file doesn t exist is caused when chrome is unable to find its reference in scoped dirXXXXX folder   Steps taken to solve the issue    I have killed all the chrome processes and chrome driver processes  Added the below code to invoke the chrome  System setProperty  webdriver chrome driver   pathto  chromedriver exe        ChromeOptions options   new ChromeOptions    options setExperimentalOption  useAutomationExtension   false   WebDriver driver   new ChromeDriver options   driver get url      Using the above steps I was able to resolve the issue   Thanks for your answers

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It seems there are many possible causes for this error  In our case  the error happened because we had the following two lines in code   System setProperty  webdriver chrome driver   chromeDriverPath   chromeOptions setBinary chromeDriverPath     It s solved by removing the second line

[google-chrome] WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser

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