How to fix “[SEVERE]: bind() failed: Cannot assign requested address (99)” while starting chromedriver

Question

I downloaded the latest version of chromedriver in Centos 7 platform: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=74.0.3729.6/ I start chromedriver and get

Answer 1

The cause lay somewhere else. I was running chrome on docker container and for me this was solved when the driver was run in a headless mode.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions().setHeadless(true); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Results: Now tests run successfully, without any errors.