How to run selenium chromedriver as root? (not wor

Question

I'm trying to run chromedriver to create some selenium tests. I followed this manual to install it. I'm trying to run this code:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

When I call this python script as normal user, it's working. But when I call it as root (it is necessary for me), it's not working. I've tried to follow some advices and I was trying to use several Google chrome options, e.g.:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options,
                          service_args=[
                              '--verbose',
                              '--log-path=/home/me/Projects/selenium.log'
                          ]
)

But it's still not working and here is a part of log:

[1,001][INFO]: COMMAND InitSession {
   "capabilities": {
      "alwaysMatch": {
         "browserName": "chrome",
         "goog:chromeOptions": {
            "args": [ "--no-sandbox" ],
            "extensions": [  ]
         },
         "platformName": "any"
      },
      "firstMatch": [ {

      } ]
   },
   "desiredCapabilities": {
      "browserName": "chrome",
      "goog:chromeOptions": {
         "args": [ "--no-sandbox" ],
         "extensions": [  ]
      },
      "platform": "ANY",
      "version": ""
   }
}
[1,001][INFO]: Populating Preferences file: {
   "alternate_error_pages": {
      "enabled": false
   },
   "autofill": {
      "enabled": false
   },
   "browser": {
      "check_default_browser": false
   },
   "distribution": {
      "import_bookmarks": false,
      "import_history": false,
      "import_search_engine": false,
      "make_chrome_default_for_user": false,
      "show_welcome_page": false,
      "skip_first_run_ui": true
   },
   "dns_prefetching": {
      "enabled": false
   },
   "profile": {
      "content_settings": {
         "pattern_pairs": {
            "https://*,*": {
               "media-stream": {
                  "audio": "Default",
                  "video": "Default"
               }
            }
         }
      },
      "default_content_setting_values": {
         "geolocation": 1
      },
      "default_content_settings": {
         "geolocation": 1,
         "mouselock": 1,
         "notifications": 1,
         "popups": 1,
         "ppapi-broker": 1
      },
      "password_manager_enabled": false
   },
   "safebrowsing": {
      "enabled": false
   },
   "search": {
      "suggest_enabled": false
   },
   "translate": {
      "enabled": false
   }
}
[1,001][INFO]: Populating Local State file: {
   "background_mode": {
      "enabled": false
   },
   "ssl": {
      "rev_checking": {
         "enabled": false
      }
   }
}
[1,002][INFO]: Launching chrome: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --disable-background-networking --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-default-apps --disable-hang-monitor --disable-infobars --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-sync --disable-web-resources --enable-logging --ignore-certificate-errors --load-extension=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.3rN146/internal --log-level=0 --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --password-store=basic --remote-debugging-port=12613 --safebrowsing-disable-auto-update --test-type=webdriver --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.dOwaRR data:,
[1,002][DEBUG]: DevTools request: http://localhost:12613/json/version
[8523:8523:0216/145622.514842:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(90)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

The strange is, that in the InitSession command there is --no-sandbox argument, but when the Chrome is launched, it's not. The error Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. shows up instead.

Any advice please?

Answer 1

The problem was in chromedriver version. I used version 2.26. After reinstallation to current version (2.35), it starts to work. So, there is only one mandatory argument --no-sandbox and everything is working now. Thank you again.