WebDriverException: Message: 'Can not connect to the ChromeDriver'. Error in utils.is_connectable(self.port):

Question

I am trying to use the chromedriver 2.10 to run my tests on Chrome Browser Version 35.0.1916.114 On CentOS machine

/home/varunm/EC_WTF_0.4.10/EC_WTF

Answer 1

Verify the line 127.0.0.1 localhost is added to your /etc/hosts file and uncommented. This was the issue for some of my colleagues, and I was able to reproduce it after I've removed this line. Adding it back solved the problem.