Try to start chrome driver on linux with selenium

Question

I try to find answer and can't, now I ask by myself.

I wrote simple test

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"/home/tranter/workspace/chromedriver")
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
driver.close()

than I have traceback

> tranter@tranter-VirtualBox:~/workspace$ python testchrome.py Traceback
> (most recent call last): File "testchrome.py", line 6, in <module>
> driver =
> webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"/home/tranter/workspace/chromedriver")
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py",
> line 65, in __init__ keep_alive=True) File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py",
> line 73, in __init__ self.start_session(desired_capabilities,
> browser_profile) File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py",
> line 121, in start_session 'desiredCapabilities':
> desired_capabilities, File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py",
> line 173, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py",
> line 166, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen,
> stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message:
> u'unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally\n (Driver
> info: chromedriver=2.10.267517,platform=Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86)'

I have latest version of chromedriver 10, latest chromium, latest selenium webdriver. And it all I start in xubuntu

Linux version 3.13.0-35-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:01 UTC 2014

Please help me :(

Answer 1

For Linux user:

Start the Display before start the Chrome. for more info click here

from selenium import webdriver
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
# Add following 2 line before start the Chrome
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 800))  
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
driver.quit()
display.stop()

Answer 2

2.10.267517 is not the latest version.

$ chromedriver --version
ChromeDriver 2.10.267518

With above version, Python 2.7.6, your code work well. (except that I modified the chromedriver path)

FYI, here are uname for my ubuntu:

$ uname -a
Linux jmlee12 3.13.0-36-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 3 21:30:07 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ python -V
Python 2.7.6