Selenium WebDriver [WinError 10061] error

I'm running Selenium tests using Python and Chrome WebDriver on Windows 10. The setup was working perfectly a couple of days ago, but now I'm getting a ConnectionRefusedError, where it everytime tries to connect to any random port, only not 8080. Here are the details:

Environment:

• Windows 10
• PyCharm 2023
• Chrome browser version: 126
• ChromeDriver version: 126
• ChromeDriver is added to the system PATH
• Python 3.10
• Selenium 4.22.0

Code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import logging

# Настройка логирования
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

# Настройка опций для headless режима
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920x1080")

# Инициализация веб-драйвера с опциями
service = ChromeService(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options)

# Открытие главной страницы
driver.get("http://localhost:8080/")

# Тест 1: Проверка наличия логотипа

def test_logo_presence():
    try:
        # Увеличение времени ожидания до 20 секунд
        logo = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(
            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#logo a"))
        )
        assert logo is not None, "Logo is not present"
        print("Test 1: Logo is present")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
    finally:
        driver.quit()

# Выполнение тестов
test_logo_presence()

Error:

if new_retry.is_exhausted():
    reason = error or ResponseError(cause)
>   raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, reason) from reason  # type: ignore[arg-type]
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=12328): Max retries exceeded with url: /session/2fae43639c8c634131a5b00a2c7f331f/element (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x000001D75F93EB90>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'))

Despite these steps, the error persists. The test worked a few days ago, and I'm not sure what changed.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

What I have tried:

• Confirmed that localhost:8080 is accessible and the page opens successfully.
• Tried increasing the timeout duration.
• Ensured both Chrome and ChromeDriver are up to date (version 126).
• Checked that the WebDriver is correctly added to the system PATH.
• Verified that the element #logo a is available in the DevTools and accessible.
• Ran another script with pytest. It works perfectly:

# test_opencart.py
# there's a big conftest for this script, thought it's not important to post it here 

import pytest

@pytest.mark.parametrize("browser_name", ["chrome", "firefox", "ie"])
def test_opencart_homepage(browser_name, browser, base_url):
    browser.get(base_url)
    assert "Your Store" in browser.title, "The page title does not indicate that we are on the Opencart homepage"

@pytest.fixture
def browser_name(request):
    return request.param