Unable to launch the browser with given URL in Chrome (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverExce

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Hi All,

I am trying to launch the chrome with an URL but the browser launches and it does nothing after that.

I am seeing the below error after 1 minute

Unable to open browser with url: ‘https://xyz…’ (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist

(Driver info: chromedriver=2.39.562718 (9a2698cba08cf5a471a29d30c8b3e12becabb0e9),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

My configuration:
Chrome : 66
ChromeBrowser : 2.39.56
Already Set the Proxy to System proxy
Already Set the chrome property to ----no-sandbox

P.S everything works fine in Firefox

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Sampath

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Sampath,

You might consider downgrading your Chrome WebDriver version to either 2.37 or 2.38 to resolve this error…

I also have Chrome Browser v66 and I am using Chrome WebDriver 2.37 (Chrome v64 to v66)…

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Hi David,

Thanks for the reply, I have tried 2.37 and 2.38 but nothing worked out.

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Sampath,

Is it possible to avoid using the following settings to keep your implementation more “vanilla”?

Already Set the Proxy to System proxy
Already Set the chrome property to ----no-sandbox

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David,

Initially I tried with the vanilla settings, but it didnt work out and added those settings as per few other sources.

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Update:

I am able to achieve my goal by running the test case after closing all the existing sessions of chrome.

Then it works smooth.

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Hi, i killed my all existing chrome sessions, still it is not working. please help.

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Hi Vikas,

Have you tried closing the chrome driver as well if there are running in the back ground?

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Hi Vikas,

I was able to launch chrome by using the below custom keyword, try it out

@Keyword

def OpenBrowser(String url) {

System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”,"");

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addArguments("–no-sandbox");

options.addArguments("–disable-dev-shm-usage");

options.setExperimentalOption(“useAutomationExtension”, false);

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

DF1.changeWebDriver(driver);

driver.get(url);

}

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Thanks Sampath, it worked.

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Hi.

I would make several changes to this,
First download chromedriver.exe and store it in a folder (Remember the path or URI)

@Keyword
def OpenBrowser() {
System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”,“URI for chromedriver.exe”);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("–no-sandbox");
options.addArguments("–disable-dev-shm-usage");
options.setExperimentalOption(“useAutomationExtension”, false);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(driver);

driver.get(url); move this. it is downloading the driver of which we do not need to

}

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Hi everyone, I have encountered the same problem. I am unable to run Chrome in Katalon, the browser will launch bit does not navigate to my URL. I am getting the same error as DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist

I have tried everything as per the suggestions but with no luck. Could someone please assist.

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if we write some script which is expected to execute on all type of browser then this custom keyword will not help is there any other solution for this issue ?