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Ubuntu – Chrome driver exception: Message: session not created: Chrome failed to start: crashed

I’m running python 3.12. Both chrome for testing and chrome driver are the same version i.e. 123.0.6312.58 – this has been checked and verified

It’s working perfectly fine on my Mac. However when I run the dockerized app I get the error

024-03-20 19:53:58 03/20/2024 06:53:58PM - ERROR - helper_functions.py::helper_functions::__init__:36 - Chrome driver exception: Message: session not created: Chrome failed to start: crashed.
2024-03-20 19:53:58   (disconnected: unable to connect to renderer)
2024-03-20 19:53:58   (The process started from chrome location /usr/local/bin/chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
2024-03-20 19:53:58 Stacktrace:
2024-03-20 19:53:58 #0 0x555555cc9993 <unknown>
2024-03-20 19:53:58 #1 0x5555559c4136 <unknown>
2024-03-20 19:53:58 #2 0x5555559f8448 <unknown>
2024-03-20 19:53:58 #3 0x5555559f443d <unknown>
2024-03-20 19:53:58 #4 0x555555a3d239 <unknown>

My docker config looks like this

FROM --platform=linux/amd64 ubuntu:20.04


ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH


RUN set -eux; 
    apt-get update && 
    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends 
        ca-certificates 
        tzdata 
        wget 
        unzip 
    ;


RUN apt-get install -y git
RUN apt-get install -y python3.12
RUN apt-get install -y python3-pip
RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y libgbm1 gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 
    libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget ca-certificates


RUN set -eux; 
    wget -O chrome-linux64.zip https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/123.0.6312.58/linux64/chrome-linux64.zip && 
    unzip chrome-linux64.zip && 
    mv chrome-linux64/* /usr/local/bin/ && 
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chrome && 
    rm -rf chrome-linux64.zip chrome-linux64


RUN set -eux; 
    wget -O chromedriver-linux64.zip https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/123.0.6312.58/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip && 
    unzip chromedriver-linux64.zip && 
    mv chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver && 
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver && 
    rm -rf chromedriver-linux64.zip chromedriver-linux64


COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt


RUN mkdir /home/test
WORKDIR /home/test



COPY . .


ENTRYPOINT ["behave"]

CMD ["-v", "features/scenarios", "-D", "browser=chrome", "-f", "html", "-o", "test-results/report.html"]

Environment

  • Selenium 4.18
  • Ubuntu Linux Docker image
  • Behave 1.2.7dev5
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Answers


  1. 0

    It’s tricky to get Chrome running in Docker. I tried running a container off Dockerfile like yours and got similar errors. Passing these additional Chrome CLI arguments upon Selenium driver creation worked for me:

    from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("enable-automation")
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.add_argument("--disable-browser-side-navigation")
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options)

    Try updating your selenium.webdriver.Chrome creation code used by Behave in a similar fashion. Hope this helps.

    What those arguments do and other possible related problems are described in those references:

    PS. A complete minimal reproducible example would be really useful. Without it, one could only guess about your specific problem.

    PPS. Judging by your Dockerfile, you’re still using Python 3.8 (not 3.12) in your container. Beware of other problems this may create 🙂

    Try peeking into your container with docker exec -it <mycontainer> bash to verify that pip, python3 (and behave) all resolve to the default system python environment, which is python 3.8 for ubuntu:20.04 base image.

    You try to install 3.12 though. Pay attention to build logs (docker build --progress=plain helps). When you do apt-get install -y python3.12 it says:

    Note, selecting 'postgresql-plpython3-12' for regex 'python3.12'

    So no python3.12 gets installed (and even if it did, it wouldn’t activate 3.12 environment on a system level, so just calling pip isn’t enough to use it). You could try choosing another base image or, for example, setting up your python env via pyenv for the sake of simplicity.

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  2. 0

    Check dockerfile if it has all the necessary libs, something like that would help:

    FROM ubuntu:20.04

# Install necessary libraries for Chrome to run
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y 
    wget 
    unzip 
    fonts-liberation 
    libappindicator3-1 
    libasound2 
    libatk-bridge2.0-0 
    libatk1.0-0 
    libc6 
    libcairo2 
    libcups2 
    libdbus-1-3 
    libexpat1 
    libfontconfig1 
    libgbm1 
    libgcc1 
    libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 
    libglib2.0-0 
    libgtk-3-0 
    libnspr4 
    libnss3 
    libpango-1.0-0 
    libpangocairo-1.0-0 
    libstdc++6 
    libx11-6 
    libx11-xcb1 
    libxcb1 
    libxcomposite1 
    libxcursor1 
    libxdamage1 
    libxext6 
    libxfixes3 
    libxi6 
    libxrandr2 
    libxrender1 
    libxss1 
    libxtst6 
    xdg-utils 
    --no-install-recommends 
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install Chrome and ChromeDriver
RUN wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
RUN sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable

COPY chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
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