Webdriver exception: “chrome not reachable”

Question

I am running selenium test cases in a ubuntu server which basically runs testcases in both firefox and chrome. Firefox launches and test cases run successfully but chrome th

Answer 1

I have encoutered similar problem. I am running my Selenium tests locally and "webdriver exception chrome not reachable" error suddenly showed up.

The problem was that I already had too much tabs in my regular chrome browser. After getting frustrated I have closed few tabs and suddenly it worked. I am not sure if there is a certain limit of tabs, but if somebody encounters same problem, give it a try.

Answer 2

Also ensure that PATH environment variable has the path to chromedriver.

Answer 3

This would be because Chrome is also making use of unix containers in order to run. If you want this to run within docker, pass the docker run command

--privileged

Otherwise you can start Chrome with

--no-sandbox

Answer 4

Your chrome driver seems to be old. Try downloading latest as of date from below and report back if you get any new errors.

http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.14/