I have been struggling with Selenium and ChromeDriver now for a while and I can't seem to get it to work. My tests worked fine until last week, when I started to get the error of ChromeDriver not being able to start. I only get the error like one third of the time when I am running my scripts, and most often when I am running several scripts after each other.
Versions I use:
- Java 12.0.1
- Selenium: 3.141.59
- Google Chrome: 76.0.3809.87
- ChromeDriver: 76.0.3809.68
- Windows 10
This is the error I get:
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start.
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:48'
System info: host: 'host', ip: '172.20.10.2', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '12.0.1'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:202)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:188)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:79)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:213)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:181)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:168)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:157)
at com.salesforce.BaseTest.setUp(BaseTest.java:40)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:567)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:124)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethodConsideringTimeout(MethodInvocationHelper.java:59)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:458)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:222)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:523)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:719)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:989)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:648)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:505)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:455)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:450)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:415)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:364)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:84)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1208)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1137)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1049)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1017)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:115)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [http://localhost:10488/status] to be available after 20002 ms
at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:100)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:197)
... 37 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:204)
at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:156)
at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:75)
... 38 more
Following code snippet is part of my base class where the error occur. The error always occur when a new instance of the ChromeDriver is created. The base test class is called every time a new test is created:
@BeforeMethod
protected void setUp() throws MalformedURLException {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
"-my path to chromedriver-\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions capability = new ChromeOptions();
capability.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
driver = new ChromeDriver(capability);
wd = new WebDriverWait(driver, WD_TIMEOUT);
}
@AfterMethod(alwaysRun = true)
protected void tearDown() {
driver.quit();
}
What I have already tried:
- Re install Google Chrome (according to instructions here) and make sure a ChromeDriver that is recommended for the correct Google Chrome version is used.
- Use updated versions of Selenium, Google Chrome and ChromeDriver
- Launch the same Chrome binary that my test uses from command prompt. On http://localhost:9515/status I can see the message "ChromeDriver ready for new sessions." so it works fine to start the chromedriver.exe.
- Tried with the --no-sandbox option
- Made sure the ChromeDriver quits after each session by calling the AfterMethod with always run true flag.
As mentioned in the beginning, my scrips runs fine for some scripts, but sometimes Chrome is not able to start. It is not always the same test script that creates the error, it varies. Anyone have any idea for how to solve this problem?
