Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH [🐛 Bug]:

[Carmaiquel]

What happened?

I installed Selenium 4.6.0 trusting that with Selenium Manager the drivers issue will be gone. But there is still an issue. The error show that WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

How can we reproduce the issue?

pip install selenium==4.6.0

from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.carrefour.com.ar/almacen')

Relevant log output

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WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py:97, in Service.start(self)
     96 try:
---> 97     path = SeleniumManager.driver_location(browser)
     98 except WebDriverException as new_err:

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py:68, in SeleniumManager.driver_location(browser)
     67 args = (str(SeleniumManager.get_binary()), "--browser", browser)
---> 68 result = SeleniumManager.run(args)
     69 command = result.split("\t")[-1].strip()

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py:85, in SeleniumManager.run(args)
     84 if not re.match("^INFO\t", result):
---> 85     raise WebDriverException(f"Unsuccessful command executed: {args}")
     87 return result

WebDriverException: Message: Unsuccessful command executed: ('/home/scaride/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager', '--browser', 'chrome')

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [2], line 2
      1 from selenium import webdriver
----> 2 driver=webdriver.Chrome()
      3 driver.get('https://www.carrefour.com.ar/almacen')

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py:81, in WebDriver.__init__(self, executable_path, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, chrome_options, service, keep_alive)
     78 if not service:
     79     service = Service(executable_path, port, service_args, service_log_path)
---> 81 super().__init__(
     82     DesiredCapabilities.CHROME["browserName"],
     83     "goog",
     84     port,
     85     options,
     86     service_args,
     87     desired_capabilities,
     88     service_log_path,
     89     service,
     90     keep_alive,
     91 )

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chromium/webdriver.py:103, in ChromiumDriver.__init__(self, browser_name, vendor_prefix, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, service, keep_alive)
    100     raise AttributeError("service cannot be None")
    102 self.service = service
--> 103 self.service.start()
    105 try:
    106     super().__init__(
    107         command_executor=ChromiumRemoteConnection(
    108             remote_server_addr=self.service.service_url,
   (...)
    114         options=options,
    115     )

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py:100, in Service.start(self)
     98         except WebDriverException as new_err:
     99             logger.debug("Unable to obtain driver using Selenium Manager: " + new_err.msg)
--> 100             raise err
    102         self._start_process(path)
    104 count = 0

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py:91, in Service.start(self)
     83 """
     84 Starts the Service.
     85 
   (...)
     88    or when it can't connect to the service
     89 """
     90 try:
---> 91     self._start_process(self.path)
     92 except WebDriverException as err:
     93     if "executable needs to be in PATH" in err.msg:

File ~/.pyenv/versions/taxifare-env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py:203, in Service._start_process(self, path)
    201 except OSError as err:
    202     if err.errno == errno.ENOENT:
--> 203         raise WebDriverException(
    204             f"'{os.path.basename(self.path)}' executable needs to be in PATH. {self.start_error_message}"
    205         )
    206     elif err.errno == errno.EACCES:
    207         raise WebDriverException(
    208             f"'{os.path.basename(self.path)}' executable may have wrong permissions. {self.start_error_message}"
    209         )

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

Operating System

Ubuntu

Selenium version

Python

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

Chrome

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

Version 125.0.6422.113 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Are you using Selenium Grid?

3.6.0

[github-actions[bot]]

@Carmaiquel, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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Thank you!

[titusfortner]

Chrome changed where downloads come from and many improvements have been made since 4.6

Regardless, we can only fix the most recent version, so please update to 4.21.

[Carmaiquel]

I updated the version but the problem continues with a new kind of error.

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/linux64/125.0.6422.141/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

[titusfortner]

See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/12841