I’m losing my mind trying to get selenium with chromedriver working on ubuntu server. I’ve already posted about this issue in:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55624355/the-process-started-from-chrome-location-usr-bin-google-chrome-is-no-longer-run
Where is was pointed out that my chromedriver didn’t match my google chrome version. So I’ve uninstalled google chrome and removed the chromedriver. Done a fresh install on google chrome and re-downloaded chromedriver. I’ve found some posts that suggested moving the chromedriver to the bin/chromedriver directory. So I did that as well. But I’m still getting the same error.
I’m trying to run this code in a jupyter notebook.
Any tips are greatly appreciated, I’m down to animal sacrifice and tossing coins in a well.
Ubuntu code:
Uninstalling google chrome and chromedriver:
sudo apt-get purge chromium-browser
rm ~/.config/chromium/ -rf
sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable
rm ~/.config/google-chrome/ -rf
sudo apt-get purge chromiumdriver
sudo apt-get purge chromedriver
Installing google chrome:
sudo apt-get install -y libappindicator1 fonts-liberation
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
Copying chromedriver to bin:
sudo cp chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver
google-chrome --version
output:
Google Chrome 73.0.3683.103
chromedriver --version
output:
ChromeDriver 73.0.3683.68 (47787ec04b6e38e22703e856e101e840b65afe72)
Jupyter notebook code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import os
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
Options
options = Options()
chrome_options = Options()
options.add_argument('headless') #downlod Chrome driver.exe
#driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath("/home/username/stuff/JobHuntCode/chromedriver"), chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath("/home/username/chromedriver"), chrome_options=chrome_options)
Error:
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WebDriverException Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-9a59a3a16e54> in <module>
19 options.add_argument('headless') #downlod Chrome driver.exe
20 #driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath("/home/username/stuff/JobHuntCode/chromedriver"), chrome_options=chrome_options)
---> 21 driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath("/home/username/chromedriver"), chrome_options=chrome_options)
22 # driver = webdriver.Chrome()
23
~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py in __init__(self, executable_path, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, chrome_options, keep_alive)
79 remote_server_addr=self.service.service_url,
80 keep_alive=keep_alive),
---> 81 desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
82 except Exception:
83 self.quit()
~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py in __init__(self, command_executor, desired_capabilities, browser_profile, proxy, keep_alive, file_detector, options)
155 warnings.warn("Please use FirefoxOptions to set browser profile",
156 DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
--> 157 self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
158 self._switch_to = SwitchTo(self)
159 self._mobile = Mobile(self)
~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py in start_session(self, capabilities, browser_profile)
250 parameters = {"capabilities": w3c_caps,
251 "desiredCapabilities": capabilities}
--> 252 response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
253 if 'sessionId' not in response:
254 response = response['value']
~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py in execute(self, driver_command, params)
319 response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
320 if response:
--> 321 self.error_handler.check_response(response)
322 response['value'] = self._unwrap_value(
323 response.get('value', None))
~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py in check_response(self, response)
240 alert_text = value['alert'].get('text')
241 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, alert_text)
--> 242 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
243
244 def _value_or_default(self, obj, key, default):
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=73.0.3683.68 (47787ec04b6e38e22703e856e101e840b65afe72),platform=Linux 4.15.0-46-generic x86_64)
