Driver info: driver.version: unknown with ChromeDriver Chrome using Selenium and Python

Question

It is showing timed out for driver server to start when I use chrome driver. And when I try to use Firefox it is showing session unexpectedly exited. I am trying to run the Remote driver on a server using selenium in python what should I do? Unable to create new session.

UnknownError: Timed out waiting for driver server to start. Build info: version: '3.141.0', revision: '2ecb7d9a', time: '2018-10-31T20:22:52' System info: host: 'server.*******.com', ip: '61.16.155.6', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64', java.version: '1.8.0_201' Driver info: driver.version: unknown

Answer 1

This error message...

Driver info: driver.version: unknown

...implies that the ChromeDriver wasn't recognized back by the Browsing Context i.e. Chrome browser.

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Solution

Ensure that:

• JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u222.
• Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.
• ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v78.0 level.
• Chrome is updated to current Chrome Version 78.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v78.0 release notes)
• Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.

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Reference

You can find a detailed discussion on version compatibility in:

• How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium