[🐛 Bug]: ChromeDriverManager stopped working due to recent update?

[PhillipFeldman]

What happened?

My scraper was running fine through PyCharm. Then, a late night Windows auto-update happened, so I had to restart my scraper. The auto installer is broken.

How can we reproduce the issue?

# some relevant imports
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService

service = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service) #problematic line

Relevant log output

File "C:\Users\tutor\PycharmProjects\WzantBotSale\main.py", line 550, in start_helper
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\tutor\PycharmProjects\WzantBotSale\venv\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 45, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "C:\Users\tutor\PycharmProjects\WzantBotSale\venv\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 53, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\tutor\PycharmProjects\WzantBotSale\venv\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 98, in start
    self._start_process(self._path)
  File "C:\Users\tutor\PycharmProjects\WzantBotSale\venv\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 204, in _start_process
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\tutor\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1026, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "C:\Users\tutor\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\subprocess.py", line 1538, in _execute_child
    hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OSError: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application

Operating System

Windows 11 Pro

Selenium version

Python 4.13.0

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

Chrome Version 127.0.6533.101 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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

chromedriver64 version 127.0.6533.119

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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[diemol]

ChromeDriverManager is not maintained by Selenium, we recommend getting rid of it and use https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/selenium_manager/

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