ChromeDriver + CentOS 6 + Chromium not able to launch

[Nadia García]

Hi all,

we have a CentOS machine (centos-release-6-8.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64) that will be hosting our automated tests.

We have installed chromium following the instructions at https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/install-chromium-on-centos-red-hat-rhel/#install-chromium

Also, we created the symbolic link so /usr/bin/google-chrome points to the actual location of chromium-browser

The Chromedriver installed is latest 2.32

When running the tests, I am getting this error:

WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1

I have been googling for a while with no luck in finding out what is wrong.

Any help is highly appreciated!

[John Chen]

I'd suggest collecting verbose log from ChromeDriver, and see if there is anything interesting from the log. See http://chromedriver.chromium.org/logging about how to enable verbose logging.

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[Nadia García]

I tried to get the verbose logs.

In theory adding these parameters to the chrome options should do the trick:

--verbose    --log-path=chromedriver.log

But for some reason it is not logging anything. I think is related to robotframework

I will keep digging.

[gmani...@google.com]

There two ways to capture chromedriver verbose log:

1) 

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.verboseLogging", "true");

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.logfile", "/path/to/chromedriver.log");

2) Start chromedriver with --verbose --log-path flags in terminal

./chromedriver --verbose --log-path=/path/to/chromedriver.log

[nadia....@acadaca.com]

Thank you,

Since the test environment terminal is out of my reach, I am doing all through Jenkins running the tests.
I was able to get the chromedriver log in my local, where it works. But when I run the exact same in the test environment, then I don't get any log.

I wonder if it is not even starting?

Thanks

[ujjawal...@gmail.com]

Hello,

By anychange were you able to find a fix ? I am also facing the same issue when using in jenkins container. In my local host it works perfectly but crashing with below error when run in container:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nose/suite.py", line 210, in run
self.setUp()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nose/suite.py", line 293, in setUp
self.setupContext(ancestor)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nose/suite.py", line 316, in setupContext
try_run(context, names)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nose/util.py", line 471, in try_run
return func()
File "/home/ukhare/move/Scripts/move_tests_jenkins3.py", line 76, in setUpClass
cls.driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromium-browser')
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 111, in assert_process_still_running
% (self.path, return_code)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/bin/chromium-browser unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1

[Alexandre Valente]

Hi to all,

I know this thread is here for a while now but I got exactly same issue...

In brief, we have developed a scrapper tool and uses chromedriver which works as expected on our machines.

while putting it in a Docker container... it fails to run.

Traceback (most recent call last):

...

 in initiateBrowser

    return webdriver.Chrome( self.config['path_to_chrome_web_driver'], options=chrome_options )

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__

    self.service.start()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in start

    self.assert_process_still_running()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 109, in assert_process_still_running

    raise WebDriverException(

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service ./chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127

This is the way it is installed in our container:

FROM ubuntu:20.04

WORKDIR /usr/src

COPY Scrapper/ .

ENV PATH=${PATH}:/usr/src

RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get -y install cron

RUN apt-get -y install wget

RUN apt-get install -yqq unzip curl

RUN wget -O /tmp/chromedriver.zip http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/`curl -sS chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`/chromedriver_linux64.zip

RUN unzip /tmp/chromedriver.zip chromedriver -d /usr/src

RUN apt-get install -y python3

RUN apt-get install -y python3-pip

RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Setup the cron job.

COPY cronfile/scrapper.cron /etc/cron.d/scrapper.cron

# Give execution rights on the cron job

RUN chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/scrapper.cron

# Create the log file to be able to run tail

RUN touch /var/log/cron.log

# Apply cron job

RUN crontab /etc/cron.d/scrapper.cron

 

# Run the command on container startup

ENTRYPOINT ["cron", "-f"]

I assume that I take the right package: chromedriver_linux64.zip

My local machine is and I used the same command to install it locally and when starting the process it works perfectly.

$ uname -a

Linux Amundsen1 5.8.0-63-generic #71~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 15 17:46:08 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lscpu

Architecture:                    x86_64

CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit

Byte Order:                      Little Endian

Address sizes:                   39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

CPU(s):                          16

On-line CPU(s) list:             0-15

Thread(s) per core:              2

Core(s) per socket:              8

Socket(s):                       1

NUMA node(s):                    1

Vendor ID:                       GenuineIntel

CPU family:                      6

Model:                           165

Model name:                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10870H CPU @ 2.20GHz