How to run selenium in digitalocean?

Posted on July 2, 2017

I’m now trying to run node app. My app running with selenium webdriver(chrome). I made droplet (ubuntu 16.04, nodejs 6.11, 512M RAM, 20G HDD). but when I start the app, an error occured and selenium not run. error log is like below.

Error: Server terminated early with status 127 at Error (native) at earlyTermination.catch.e (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/remote/index.js:252:52) at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:135:7) From: Task: WebDriver.createSession() at Function.createSession (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:777:24) at Function.createSession (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:719:29) at createDriver (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/index.js:167:33) at Builder.build (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/index.js:639:16) at kakaoCrawler.executeCrawling (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/server/crawler/kakaoCrawler.js:108:11) at /home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/server/crawler/kakaoCrawler.js:32:10 at Array.forEach (native) at /home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/server/crawler/kakaoCrawler.js:31:15 at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:135:7) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:606:11) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/master/Project/react-jobscrapper/node_modules/babel-cli/lib/_babel-node.js:154:22) at Module._compile (module.js:570:32) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:579:10) at Module.load (module.js:487:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)

I setted selenium headless option(‘headless’, ‘disable-gpu’) but selenium doesn’t run. somebody help me…

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Woet

July 2, 2017

I recommend asking them: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues

hscbaj

August 14, 2017

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hscbaj

July 19, 2017

I can help you get further, but then you will have an issue with chromedriver hanging… hope this helps, maybe you can solve my issue? :)

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Apparently DO droplets lack entropy, so install this for lots of delicious entropy apt-get install haveged and then start it /etc/init.d/haveged start
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