Recently I switched computers and since then I can’t launch chrome with selenium. I’ve also tried Firefox but the browser instance just doesn’t launch.
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from selenium import webdriver
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d = webdriver.Chrome('/home/PycharmProjects/chromedriver')
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d.get('https://www.google.nl/')
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i get the following error:
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selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
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(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
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(The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
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(Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600233, platform=Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64)
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i have the latest chrome version and chromedriver installed
EDIT: After trying @b0sss solution i am getting the following error.
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selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
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(chrome not reachable)
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(The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so chromedriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
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(Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600233 (523efee95e3d68b8719b3a1c83051aa63aa6b10d),platform=Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64)
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Answer
Try to download HERE and use this latest chrome driver version:
Try this:
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from selenium import webdriver
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from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
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chrome_options = Options()
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chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
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chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
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chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
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d = webdriver.Chrome('/home/<user>/chromedriver',chrome_options=chrome_options)
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d.get('https://www.google.nl/')
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