SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: Microsoft Edge failed to start: exited normally.

[Darshan77D]

Code

Map<String, Object> edgePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>(); edgePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0); edgePrefs.put("profile.default_content_setting_values.notifications", 2); edgePrefs.put("download.default_directory", file1); edgePrefs.put("profile.default_content_setting_values.automatic_downloads", 1); edgePrefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", false); EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions(); options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", edgePrefs); options.addArguments("start-maximized"); // open Browser in maximized mode options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); options.addArguments("--remote-debugging-port=5557"); options.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS, true); WebDriverManager.edgedriver().setup(); driver =new EdgeDriver(options);

Error log: Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: Microsoft Edge failed to start: exited normally. (chrome not reachable) (The process started from msedge location C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe is no longer running, so msedgedriver is assuming that msedge has crashed.)

OS -Windows 11 Java -14 Selenium 4.11 Edge version 120

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[bwalderman]

Thanks for reporting this. I've added it to our internal backlog for investigation.

[eshravani]

facing similar issue. Any update on this?

[nagamuppavarapu-rgare]

We are facing similar issue org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created: Microsoft Edge failed to start: crashed. (chrome not reachable) (The process started from msedge location C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe is no longer running, so msedgedriver is assuming that msedge has crashed.) Host info: host: 'TESTHOST', ip: 'XX.XX.XX.XX' Build info: version: '4.18.0', revision: 'b6bf9de7cc*' System info: os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '11.0.22' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver Command: [null, newSession {capabilities=[Capabilities {browserName: MicrosoftEdge, ms:edgeOptions: {args: [--no-sandbox, --disable-dev-shm-usage, --remote-debugging-port=9222], extensions: []}}]}] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:139) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:95) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:67) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:162) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.invokeExecute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:216) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:174) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:519) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:233)

[Kiran1975]

We are facing a similar issue when running the test scripts in Jenkins, but locally working fine. Please let me know if there is any update on this.