SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.

[mehrdad2000]

Hi on RHEL 8 minimal i try to run below command but got this error: selenium-side-runner mytest.side

SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

  at Object.throwDecodedError (node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:524:15)
  at parseHttpResponse (node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:601:13)
  at Executor.execute (node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:529:28)

FYI: ChromeDriver 120.0.6099.71 Google Chrome 120.0.6099.71 selenium-side-runner 4.0.0-alpha.60

Any idea? Thanks

[toddtarsi]

@mehrdad2000 - This really sounds like a chromedriver issue, or something a bit below the api that selenium-side-runner wraps.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50642308/webdriverexception-unknown-error-devtoolsactiveport-file-doesnt-exist-while-t?page=1&tab=scoredesc#tab-top

I would try doing some sanity tests in your environment to make sure your chrome / chromedriver are installed and configured in a way that works on your system. To get more logging out of the side runner, you can add '-dD' which adds startup debug logging and test debug logging, but I feel this is something that you might even want to look at having a ten line test in selenium-webdriver you test this based off of.

[toddtarsi]

@mehrdad2000 - You ever figure this out? I might close this in a couple days if I don't hear back

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