WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1

[gtpeter]

Hi, Mr. Korakot !

Today 13 Jan 2023. My Colab is facing a strange issue, i.e, it can not pass following script (This Monday 09 Jan was still working) :

###################
!pip3 install kora -q

from kora.selenium import wd

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with Error:
WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1

I even tried without Kora (as below). it gives the same error:

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!pip install selenium
!apt-get update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',chrome_options=chrome_options)

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[kpennell]

Dealing with the same issue here

[gtpeter]

Sorry for forgetting to update

The problem was auto-resolved by it self a few days ago. (But no time to update here)

Today, I would like to update here, and I happened to see (User: kpennell) reported the same issue (yesterday), therefore I just went to test again, Yes, the same issue comes back again, the ONLY difference is the Status code was: -6
Previously was: 1

Hope this problem can be resolved permanently !

[korakot]

For now, please use the solution here

https://stackoverflow.com/a/75164596/6729010

[gtpeter]

Thanks, Korakot

This morning, I also noticed similar thread from googlecolab github:
googlecolab/colabtools#3347

, but spent whole morning to solve another problem: "unmet dependencies" (as screenshot-1). I tried many methods from google, and finally realized that my Colab environment is still Ubuntu 18.04 (screenshot-2). But if it still 18.04, then wondering why doesn't the previous methods (kora or non-kora) work.

After duplicate the notebook, the Ubuntu environment change to 20.04, and the NEW method works as expected.

[kpennell]

This code https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1cbEvuZOhkouYLda3RqiwtbM-o9hxGLyC found here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75164313/selenium-in-google-colab-stopped-working-showing-an-error-as-service-chromedrive/75165082#75165082 seems to work

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