[🐛 Bug]: driver location error

[Datarambler]

What happened?

I have installed selenium 4.20 version on my virtual environment which has python 3.12 running and the VM is running on a Linux server. When I tried to open the Chrome browser with the webdriver, it's unable to find it.

Even if I try to specify the path to the chromedriver.exe via the service argument, it says "Permission issue - WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions.".

How can we reproduce the issue?

import logging
logging.getLogger('selenium')
import os
from pathlib import Path
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")

driver_path = Path.cwd()/'drivers/chromedriver.exe'
print(driver_path)

# service = Service(driver_path)
# driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

driver=webdriver.Chrome()

Relevant log output

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location /data/home/xfmh5ya/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/124.0.6367.91/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Stacktrace:
#0 0x560da9601cb3 <unknown>
#1 0x560da92f04a7 <unknown>
#2 0x560da9324a26 <unknown>
#3 0x560da9320980 <unknown>
#4 0x560da93697b0 <unknown>
#5 0x560da935d1b3 <unknown>
#6 0x560da932e24a <unknown>
#7 0x560da932ec1e <unknown>
#8 0x560da95c5fdb <unknown>
#9 0x560da95c9f2b <unknown>
#10 0x560da95b20f1 <unknown>
#11 0x560da95caa92 <unknown>
#12 0x560da9596faf <unknown>
#13 0x560da95f0e08 <unknown>
#14 0x560da95f0fe0 <unknown>
#15 0x560da9600e04 <unknown>
#16 0x7f4f8d574ea5 start_thread

Operating System

Linux

Selenium version

4.20

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome, Edge

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chromedriver

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

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[Carmaiquel]

I had a similiar issue.

!pip install -U selenium

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger('selenium')
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
!pytest -s -p no:logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARN)

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
url = 'https://www.carrefour.com.ar/almacen'
driver.get(url)

OUTPUT

DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:Selenium Manager binary found at: /home/scaride/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:Executing process: /home/scaride/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager --browser chrome --debug --language-binding python --output json
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:chromedriver not found in PATH
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:chrome not found in PATH
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:chrome not found in the system
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:Required browser: chrome 124.0.6367.155
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:chrome 124.0.6367.155 already exists
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:chrome 124.0.6367.155 is available at /home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chrome
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:Required driver: chromedriver 124.0.6367.155
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:chromedriver 124.0.6367.155 already in the cache
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:Driver path: /home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chromedriver/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chromedriver
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.selenium_manager:Browser path: /home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chrome
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.common.service:Started executable: `/home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chromedriver/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chromedriver` in a child process with pid: 10312 using 0 to output -3
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:POST http://localhost:44933/session {'capabilities': {'firstMatch': [{}], 'alwaysMatch': {'browserName': 'chrome', 'pageLoadStrategy': <PageLoadStrategy.normal: 'normal'>, 'browserVersion': None, 'goog:chromeOptions': {'extensions': [], 'binary': '/home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chrome', 'args': []}}}}
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:Remote response: status=500 | data={"value":{"error":"session not created","message":"session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.\n  (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)\n  (The process started from chrome location /home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)","stacktrace":"#0 0x556874a34df3 \u003Cunknown>\n#1 0x5568747234e7 \u003Cunknown>\n#2 0x556874757a66 \u003Cunknown>\n#3 0x5568747539c0 \u003Cunknown>\n#4 0x55687479c7f0 \u003Cunknown>\n#5 0x5568747901f3 \u003Cunknown>\n#6 0x55687476128a \u003Cunknown>\n#7 0x556874761c5e \u003Cunknown>\n#8 0x5568749f911b \u003Cunknown>\n#9 0x5568749fd06b \u003Cunknown>\n#10 0x5568749e5231 \u003Cunknown>\n#11 0x5568749fdbd2 \u003Cunknown>\n#12 0x5568749ca0ef \u003Cunknown>\n#13 0x556874a23f48 \u003Cunknown>\n#14 0x556874a24120 \u003Cunknown>\n#15 0x556874a33f44 \u003Cunknown>\n#16 0x7f29e1066609 start_thread\n"}} | headers=HTTPHeaderDict({'Content-Length': '966', 'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8', 'cache-control': 'no-cache'})
DEBUG:selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection:Finished Request

MORE

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location /home/scaride/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/124.0.6367.155/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Stacktrace:
#0 0x556874a34df3 <unknown>
#1 0x5568747234e7 <unknown>
#2 0x556874757a66 <unknown>
#3 0x5568747539c0 <unknown>
#4 0x55687479c7f0 <unknown>
#5 0x5568747901f3 <unknown>
#6 0x55687476128a <unknown>
#7 0x556874761c5e <unknown>
#8 0x5568749f911b <unknown>
#9 0x5568749fd06b <unknown>
#10 0x5568749e5231 <unknown>
#11 0x5568749fdbd2 <unknown>
#12 0x5568749ca0ef <unknown>
#13 0x556874a23f48 <unknown>
#14 0x556874a24120 <unknown>
#15 0x556874a33f44 <unknown>
#16 0x7f29e1066609 start_thread