SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created from disconnected: unable to connect to renderer with ChromeDriver 2.45 Chrome v71

Question

When I'm executing this code with Selenium using Python:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'/Users/qa/Documents/Python/chromedriver')

The error occurred:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/qa/Documents/Python/try.py", line 4, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'/Users/qa/Documents/Python/chromedriver')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 81, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created
from disconnected: unable to connect to renderer
  (Session info: chrome=71.0.3578.98)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.44.609545 (c2f88692e98ce7233d2df7c724465ecacfe74df5),platform=Mac OS X 10.13.6 x86_64)

Can someone help me? Thanks.

Apodictic

Update the question with the error trace logs. – Troopship

Im using mac high sierra and I already tried to use 2.44 and 2.43 that are also support Chrome v71. I still have an error sir. – Apodictic

I got an error when I remove the executable_path parameter. 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. @DebanjanB – Apodictic

I was looking for the error stack trace – Troopship

@DebanjanB Sorry sir. Ive already edit and add the Error Traceback – Apodictic

duplicate of #53320642 – Acetous

Answer 1

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created
from disconnected: unable to connect to renderer

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.

You need to consider a fact:

• As you are using Mac OS X the Key executable_path must be supported with a Value as :

  '/Users/qa/Documents/Python/chromedriver'
  

• So line will be:

  driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/Users/qa/Documents/Python/chromedriver')
  

Note: The path itself is a raw path so you don't need to add the switch r and drop it.

Additionally, ensure that /etc/hosts on your system contains the following entry :

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
#or
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

Troopship

It works sir and I also edit my hosts because my localhost is blocked. Thanks – Apodictic

My hosts contains the config but still facing this problem. I did not know what to do to fix it .@DebanjanB #70144201 – Idea

Answer 2

I had a similar error, first getting the error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally. (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)

This was solved by adding options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9230") to the ChromeOptions(). And the program runs once and I gained the same error message as above:

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created from disconnected: unable to connect to renderer (Session info: headless chrome=89.0.4389.114)

The problem here was that the chrome process does not close properly in the program so the process is still active on the debugging-port. To solve this problem close the active port sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:9230) and simply add the following lines to the end of the code:

driver.stop_client()
driver.close()
driver.quit()

Since I didn't find this answer anywhere, I hope it helps someone.

Rockett

Answer 3

If you have options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222") change this to options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9230")

or just simply Adding options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9230") fixed in my case.

Loutitia

I do not know why, it did not work for me. I am using a debian docker image. – Idea

Answer 4

I ran into this same issue on a Windows 10 machine. What I had to do to resolve the issue was to open the Task Manager and exit all Python.exe processes, along with all Chrome.exe processes. After doing this,

Antetype

Answer 5

I am facing the same error and add the close code solve the problem, the code finnaly block look like this:

    @staticmethod
    def fetch_music_download_url(music_name: str):
        chrome_driver_service = Service(ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.GOOGLE).install())
        chrome_options = Options()
        chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
        chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
        chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
        chrome_options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9230")
        driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=chrome_driver_service, options=chrome_options)
        try:
            driver.maximize_window()
            driver.get('http://example.cn/music/?page=audioPage&type=migu&name=' + music_name)
            driver.implicitly_wait(5)
            // do some logic
        except Exception as e:
            logger.error(e)
        finally:
            // add the close logic
            driver.stop_client()
            driver.close()
            driver.quit()
            chrome_driver_service.stop()

the key is you should close the chrome service after using it by add chrome_driver_service.stop().hope this code could help other people facing the same issue.

Idea

Answer 6

This worked for me on WINDOWS OS

from selenium import webdriver
import time
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get(url)
time.sleep(3)
page = driver.page_source
driver.quit()
soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')

Hope you'd find this useful. I also used it more comprehensively here.

Honewort

Answer 7

I was facing the same issue with selenium. Adding this helped in my case.

options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-setuid-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")

Frederick

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