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axidus1989
axidus1989

Reputation: 11

Getting a UnreachableBrowserException while using ChromeDriver

The piece of code is:

another edit: would like to note that I'm using java to implement this so I don't think slashes would be a problem. (though correct me if i'm wrong)

edit: One more thing i'd like to add is that it actually says its starting up the chrome driver version something but immediately fails after that

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "webdrivers/chromedriver.exe");
        driver = new ChromeDriver();

and the error i'll end up getting is 

org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.37.0', revision: 'a7c61cb', time: '2013-10-18 17:15:02'
System info: host: '****-PC', ip: '10.10.10.1', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_51'

There isn't a stack trace and this happens immediately after the webdriver attempts to start. I'm guessing the code above is where it happens simply because netbeans doens't really indicate where it errors out.

The mystery is that this worked on my computer but upon attempting to run it on a colleague's computer it simply produces this error. Firefox works for her but both IE and Chrome results in this. Any ideas?

edit: apparently there is a stack trace:

Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:165)
 at     org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:62)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:527)
 ... 7 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for     [http://localhost:8891/status] to be available after 20002 ms
 at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:104)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:163)
 ... 9 more
Caused by: com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedTimeoutException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
 at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
 at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:79)
 ... 10 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:201)
 at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
 ... 11 more

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9949

Answers (4)

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 667

When I used the absolute path, it was giving me the error. However, when I used the directory where the executable was located, it started just fine. Here is a C# example 

using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome; 

public class ChromeOptionsWithPrefs : ChromeOptions
{
    public Dictionary<string, object> prefs { get; set; }
}

public static void Start()
{
    var options = new ChromeOptionsWithPrefs();
    options.AddArguement("-incognito");
    using (IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(@"C:\FilePath\", options))
    {
        //perform the test
        driver.Navigate().GoToURL(@"http://www.google.com"); 
        driver.Quit(); 
    }
}

I just use the prefs to not store any data on whatever machine I am running the tests on. It is not needed, but you can pass some interesting options with it.

Upvotes: 0

Sarah Barber
Sarah Barber

Reputation: 11

You either need to add the absolute path which in Windows may need to include escaped backslashes e.g.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\chromedriver\\chromedriver.exe"); 
driver = new ChromeDriver();

Or you can add the property to your System path.

If these options don't work it may be that there is a problem connecting to ChromeDriver. In which case you can open up the Chromedriver.exe file

WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver("http://localhost:9515", DesiredCapabilities.chrome());
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver

Upvotes: 1

Prashanth Sams
Prashanth Sams

Reputation: 21129

  1. Make sure that you are working with latest Chrome browser with one version behind and
  2. The latest Chromedriver.exe version 2.9
  3. The path should be mentioned like C://Test//chromedriver.exe

Upvotes: 0

Amith
Amith

Reputation: 7008

webdrivers/chromedriver.exe

I suspect it could not find chromedriver. Are you sure this is the right path to chromedriver.exe?

You should probably try with absolute path.

For example C:/Users/Name/Desktop/webdrivers/chromedriver.exe

Upvotes: 0

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