"E/launcher - session not created: Chrome version must be between 71 and 75" when trying to run E2E in VSCode for an angular app

Question

I am trying to run the e2e for an Angular application in VSCode (command: ng e2e) and I get the below error.

My environment:

• Win 10
• VS Code version: 1.37.1
• Chrome version: Version 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)

How could I update the chromedriver to match Chrome version?

Your global Angular CLI version (7.3.8) is greater than your local
version (7.3.5). The local Angular CLI version is used.

To disable this warning use "ng config -g cli.warnings.versionMismatch false".
** Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost:4200, open your browser on http://localhost:4200/ **
 22% building 103/109 modules 6 active ...e\workflow-manager-table.component.scssBrowserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run next command `npm update caniuse-lite browserslist`

Date: 2019-09-03T18:20:59.131Z
Hash: 3ced9271ad10fcdd845e
Time: 14922ms
chunk {es2015-polyfills} es2015-polyfills.js, es2015-polyfills.js.map (es2015-polyfills) 284 kB [initial] [rendered]
chunk {main} main.js, main.js.map (main) 4.17 MB [initial] [rendered]
chunk {polyfills} polyfills.js, polyfills.js.map (polyfills) 236 kB [initial] [rendered]
chunk {runtime} runtime.js, runtime.js.map (runtime) 6.08 kB [entry] [rendered]
chunk {styles} styles.js, styles.js.map (styles) 1.11 MB [initial] [rendered]
chunk {vendor} vendor.js, vendor.js.map (vendor) 7.93 MB [initial] [rendered]

WARNING in ./node_modules/@angular/material/esm5/tree.es5.js 38:63-88
"export 'CDK_TREE_NODE_OUTLET_NODE' was not found in '@angular/cdk/tree'

WARNING in ./node_modules/@angular/material/esm5/tree.es5.js 168:35-60
"export 'CDK_TREE_NODE_OUTLET_NODE' was not found in '@angular/cdk/tree'
[11:20:59] I/file_manager - creating folder C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium
[11:20:59] I/config_source - curl -oC:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\chrome-response.xml https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/
i ｢wdm｣: Compiled with warnings.
[11:20:59] I/downloader - curl -oC:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium/chromedriver_2.46.zip https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.46/chromedriver_win32.zip
[11:20:59] I/update - chromedriver: unzipping chromedriver_2.46.zip
[11:21:00] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[11:21:00] I/direct - Using ChromeDriver directly...

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:59746/devtools/browser/8a7f04ec-5be2-40bb-b68f-463b377c9c2b
[11:21:01] E/launcher - session not created: Chrome version must be between 71 and 75
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.46.628402 (536cd7adbad73a3783fdc2cab92ab2ba7ec361e1),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17763 x86_64)
[11:21:01] E/launcher - SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: Chrome version must be between 71 and 75
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.46.628402 (536cd7adbad73a3783fdc2cab92ab2ba7ec361e1),platform=Windows NT 10.0.17763 x86_64)
    at Object.checkLegacyResponse (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:546:15)
    at parseHttpResponse (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:509:13)
    at doSend.then.response (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\http.js:441:30)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
    at Function.createSession (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver.js:769:24)
    at Function.createSession (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chrome.js:761:15)
    at Direct.getNewDriver (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\protractor\built\driverProviders\direct.js:77:33)
    at Runner.createBrowser (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:195:43)
    at q.then.then (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\protractor\built\runner.js:339:29)
    at _fulfilled (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\q\q.js:834:54)
    at C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\q\q.js:863:30
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\q\q.js:796:13)
    at C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\q\q.js:556:49
    at runSingle (C:\_VSTS\OkhamaMD\OkhamaMDWebDemo\UI\node_modules\q\q.js:137:13)
[11:21:01] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199
An unexpected error occurred: undefined

Answer 1

that's because you have Chrome version: Version 76.0.3809.132 as you pointed out.
This problem should be easily resolved by updating webdriver-manager & protractor:

npm install -g webdriver-manager protractor && webdriver-manager update

If that didn't work, try uninstalling it first, then re-install the latest version:

npm uninstall -g webdriver-manager protractor

then

npm install -g webdriver-manager protractor and webdriver-manager update