Chromedriver failed to start

March 15, 2014 6.9k views
sahebkanodia
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sahebkanodia
Hi, I am getting this error when I try to run my tests with selenium webdriver. selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: u'unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally\n (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248316,platform=Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86)' Any suggestions anyone? Thanks.
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asb MOD April 11, 2014
Hi,

Could you provide a code snippet showing how you are trying to launch it in your script? It would help us figure out what's going one.

You can also try launching it with more verbose output to see if there is more to that error message:

service_log_path = "{}/chromedriver.log".format(outputdir)
service_args = ['--verbose']
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver',
service_args=service_args,
service_log_path=service_log_path)
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