How to start Chromedriver in verbose mode - Selenium Eclipse

Question

I just installed OSX 10.9 on my mac and ever since then my Chromedriver is not working when I try to run tests.

The error I get is that "chrome was killed".

Everybody keeps mentioning that it works when you set Chromedriver to --verbose mode but I have no idea how to do that.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here's a script that creates the executable you'll need, cd to the directory where chromedriver is, then paste this into your console:

cat <<EOF>chromedriververbose
echo "running chromedriver --verbose \$*"
\$(dirname \$0)/chromedriver --verbose \$*
EOF

chmod +x chromedriververbose

That'll create an executable script called chromedriververbose that you can point your tests at rather than chromedriver.

Alternatively, you could rename chromedriver to chromedriversilent and then call the above script chromedriver and point it to chromedriversilent for drop-in replacement.

Answer 2

To fix this issue, you can download the latest Chromedriver version 2.6 which resolves this issue.

Link - http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Answer 3

I did the following from within the python console to test the verbose thing:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service_args=["--verbose"])

It seemed to do the trick. Not ideal but it works for now.

Answer 4

You can set command line flags in the capabilities (Java example)

capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capability.setCapability("chrome.switches",
    Arrays.asList("--verbose"));
webDriver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(url), capability);

However I'm not seeing this actually solve the problem on my end, I still get

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: was killed