[🐛 Bug]: Selenium Manager process exited abnormally with 65 code

[ardennext99]

What happened?

I have a .Net framework method that try to use selenium to connect to a site for retrieve data. I have installed Selenium.WebDriver and Selenium.Support from NuGet.

1) When the method is called by a Test project it work 2) When the method is called by a Windows Service it work 3) When the method is called by a debug WebApi in VS2019 it try to locate "selenium-manager.exe" in the wrong folder E:\Lavoro\tecnositalia.visualstudio.com\tools.scooter.it\tools.scooter.it\selenium-manager\windows\selenium-manager.exe instead E:\Lavoro\tecnositalia.visualstudio.com\tools.scooter.it\tools.scooter.it\bin\selenium-manager\windows\selenium-manager.exe

throwing "The type initializer for 'OpenQA.Selenium.SeleniumManager' threw an exception."

4) Publish project on a IIS, and calling the webservice locate the "selenium-manager.exe" correctly, but I get this error:

throwing "Error starting process: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\tools.scooter.it\selenium-manager\windows\selenium-manager.exe --browser "chrome" --language-binding csharp --output json"

How can we reproduce the issue?

ChromeOptions oChromeOptions = new ChromeOptions() { AcceptInsecureCertificates = true };
oChromeOptions.AddArgument("--headless");
IWebDriver oIWebDriver = new ChromeDriver(oChromeOptions); //Throw the error

Relevant log output

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Error starting process: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\tools.scooter.it\selenium-manager\windows\selenium-manager.exe  --browser "chrome" --language-binding csharp --output json ---> OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Selenium Manager process exited abnormally with 65 code: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\tools.scooter.it\selenium-manager\windows\selenium-manager.exe  --browser "chrome" --language-binding csharp --output json
Standard Output >>
{
  "logs": [
    {
      "level": "WARN",
      "timestamp": 1718951673,
      "message": "Metadata cannot be written in cache (): Accesso negato. (os error 5)"
    },
    {
      "level": "WARN",
      "timestamp": 1718951674,
      "message": "Metadata cannot be written in cache (): Accesso negato. (os error 5)"
    },
    {
      "level": "ERROR",
      "timestamp": 1718951675,
      "message": "Accesso negato. (os error 5)"
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "code": 65,
    "message": "Accesso negato. (os error 5)",
    "driver_path": "",
    "browser_path": ""
  }
}

Operating System

Windows 10Pro, Windows Server 2012 R2

Selenium version

Selenium.WebDriver 4.22, Selenium.Support 4.22

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

unknow

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

unknow

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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[titusfortner]

That last example you don't have the right permissions set to execute on the machine.

I'm not sure there's anything we can do to address the debugger issue, I'll add some links below for where to get more help.

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