org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Could not start a new session. Response code 500 error using Selenium Java

Question

A window appears after launch and immediately disappears, I can not understand what's wrong. Google except for the latest version, selenium is also set to the LATEST parameter (nothing changes with a specific version).

Error:

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Message:  Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created

Code:

Error:

Answer 1

更新你的chromedriver版本，看来你的浏览器和浏览器当前驱动版本不一样。

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?

Answer 2

This error message...

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Message:  Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: session not created:
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Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context ie google-chrome session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

• You are using chrome=99.0
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v99.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 99

• But your chromedriver version is not getting detected.

Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

• Your JDK version 1.8.0_281 is also old and ancient.

So most possibly there is a mismatch between jdk version , chromedriver version and the chrome=99.0

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Solution

Ensure that:

• JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u311 .
• ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v99.0 level.
• Chrome Browser is updated to current chrome=99.0 (as per chromedriver=99.0.4844.51 release notes ).

Answer 3

总之，出现这样的问题需要安装之前版本的web驱动

Answer 4

If some one is on linux,

some distros install /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable, web driver manager tries to retry the version of chrome with the command

/usr/bin/google-chrome --version

Since that bin does not exists, is going to fail; The solution is very simple just a simbolic link to google-chrome

# ln -s /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable /usr/bin/google-chrome

Answer 5

More than an answer this continues with the question.

I'm using serenity-bdd with the following characteristics:

• Ubuntu: 22.04.1
• Google-Chrome: 106.0.5249.103
• Chrome driver: 106.0.5249.61

And the generated message error is:

 <<< ERROR..net.thucydides.core.webdriver:DriverConfigurationError. Could not instantiate class org.openqa.selenium.chrome:ChromeDriver Caused by..net.thucydides.core.webdriver:DriverConfigurationError. Could not instantiate new WebDriver instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver (Could not start a new session. Response code 500: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start. exited abnormally: (unknown error, DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running. so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

Was trying with different driver combinations and none of them are working. Funny enough when i run on windows with the same configuration all works.

Answer 6

Starting ChromeDriver 109.0.5414.74 (e7c5703604daa9cc128ccf5a5d3e993513758913-refs/branch-heads/5414@{#1172}) on port 48484 Only local connections are allowed. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe. ChromeDriver was started successfully. Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: unknown error: Failed to create Chrome process. Host info: host: 'A-LAPTOP', ip: '192. .0. ' Build info: version: '4.7.2', revision: '4d4020c3b7' System info: os.name: 'Windows 11', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.5' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver Command: [null, newSession {capabilities=[Capabilities {browserName: chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [], extensions: []}}], desiredCapabilities=Capabilities {browserName: chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [], extensions: []}}}] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:148) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:106) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:67) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:156) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.invokeExecute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:167) at o rg.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:142) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:535) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:228) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:156) at org.openqa.selenium.chromium.ChromiumDriver.(ChromiumDriver.java:101) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:82) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:50) at com.project.skyfall.Browser_Drivers.main(Browser_Drivers.java:13)