SessionNotCreatedError: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService
Solution 1
This can be fixed by updating to the latest version of both chromedriver and chrome.
If you are using webdriver-manager, run
webdriver-manager update --chromedriver
Then download Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ and replace your old chrome with the latest version.
You will also need to Ctrl-C in the terminal where webdriver is running and run
webdriver-manager start
Or kill and restart the Selenium daemon process to capture the latest chromedriver. A system restart might be helpful.
Also worth trying:
npm update -g protractor
webdriver-manager update
Also see session not created exception for chrome in Protractor for more details on how to modify the version of Chromedriver in protractor's config
Lastly, make sure that your protractor.conf.js has
commonCapabilities: {
'browserName': 'chrome',
},
or else you should be using
--browser chrome
flag on your protractor command
Solution 2
- Run webdriver-manager start
- Open any browser manually, than navigate to 'localhost:4444/wd/hub' , click Create Session -> Chrome.
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Updated on July 05, 2022Comments
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chhhris almost 2 years
We have AngularJS protractor tests. The process is to set up and run these steps in order:
$ npm install $ webdriver-manager update --ie32 --ignore_ssl $ gulp
The problem I'm having is this setup works for everyone else on my team but 100% of the time I receive this error:
[11:42:33] I/local - Starting selenium standalone server... [11:42:36] I/local - Selenium standalone server started at http://10.222.189.129:55574/wd/hub /path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:27 super(opt_error); ^ SessionNotCreatedError: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService Build info: version: '3.5.3', revision: 'a88d25fe6b', time: '2017-08-29T12:54:15.039Z' System info: host: 'xxxx', ip: 'xxxx', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.6', java.version: '1.8.0_131' Driver info: driver.version: unknown at WebDriverError (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:27:5) at SessionNotCreatedError (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:214:5) at Object.checkLegacyResponse (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:505:15) at parseHttpResponse (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:509:13) at doSend.then.response (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:440:13) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7) From: Task: WebDriver.createSession() at Function.createSession (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:777:24) at Function.createSession (/path/to/repo/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:709:29)
The problem is something to do with my setup but I'm at a loss, so throwing a Hail Mary on SO hoping anyone has any advice.
Please let me know if you need any additional info. Thank you in advance, I've wasted a lot of time trying to get this to work!
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Juri Sinitson almost 6 yearsHad the same problem, restarting the PC and updating have helped.