--user-data-dir profile problems

[Malte]

Hi,

I am facing problems with loading chrome profiles.
Even with a very simple script i got an error on options.
Chrome starts and opens with user profile 6, i can use the browser manually, but the script stops and doenst open google.com.

when i comment out the user profile options
#options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
#options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=Profile 6')

i got no errors in console and google.com is opening.
Any idea what i am doing wrong? Thanks for any help!

Here my Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

#create chromeoptions instance
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

#provide location where chrome stores profiles
options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")

#provide the profile name with which we want to open browser
options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=Profile 6')

#specify where your chrome driver present in your pc
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

#provide website url here
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")

This is the console output:

Wird in einer aktuellen Browsersitzung ge÷ffnet.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\DATA\python\udb.py", line 16, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 80, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 104, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 286, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 378, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 440, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\malta\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 245, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Stacktrace:

chromedriver: ChromeDriver 110.0.5481.77
Chrome Version 110.0.5481.178

[Michael Odumosu]

Im having same issue too this code at least opened chrome but the selenium process fails

this is java

```

  @Override

  public  WebDriver getDriver(Boolean headless) {

    System.setProperty(

      "webdriver.chrome.driver",

      CommonUtils.dotenv.get("CHROMEDRIVER")

    );

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

    options

    .addArguments("--no-sandbox")

    .addArguments("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Restop-8734\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")

    .addArguments("--start-maximized")

    .addArguments("disable-infobars")

    .addArguments("--disable-extensions")

    .addArguments("--disable-gpu")

    .addArguments("--disable-gpu")

    .addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage'")

    .addArguments("--profile-directory=Default")

    .setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);

    if(headless == true){

      options.addArguments("--headless");

    }

    // ChromeDriverService service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()

    // .usingDriverExecutable(new File(CommonUtils.dotenv.get("CHROMEDRIVER")))

    // .build();

    driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

    return driver;

  }

```

[Vladimir Nechaev]

Dear Michael,

Which version are you using?

The issue has been fixed in ChromeDriver 111.0.5563.41: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/111.0.5563.41/notes.txt

Best regards,

Vladimir

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[Michael Odumosu]

Windows 11 pro

JDK: open jdk java 17.0.4.1 2022-08-18 LTS

mvn v 3.8.7

selenium v4.8.1

chromedriver-v111.0.5563.41-win32

Chrome Version 110.0.5481.178

[Michael Odumosu]

However trying trying v 111 withchrome v 110 yields no results do I have to wait to get to v 111