SessionNotCreatedError: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService

Question

We have AngularJS protractor tests. The process is to set up and run these steps in order:

$ npm install
$ webdriver-manager update --ie32 --ignore_ssl
$ gul         


        

Answer 1

This can be fixed by updating to the latest version of both chromedriver and chrome.

If you are using webdriver-manager, run

webdriver-manager update --chromedriver

Then download Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ and replace your old chrome with the latest version.

You will also need to Ctrl-C in the terminal where webdriver is running and run

webdriver-manager start

Or kill and restart the Selenium daemon process to capture the latest chromedriver. A system restart might be helpful.

Also worth trying:

npm update -g protractor
webdriver-manager update

Also see session not created exception for chrome in Protractor for more details on how to modify the version of Chromedriver in protractor's config

Lastly, make sure that your protractor.conf.js has

   commonCapabilities: {
     'browserName': 'chrome',
   },

or else you should be using

--browser chrome

flag on your protractor command

Answer 2

If you set the below in your config you can download the latest chromedriver.exe and run it directly with the below code. Only geckoDriver and chromeDriver work with directConnect.

directConnect: true,
chromeDriver: 'path_to_chromedriver',
geckoDriver: 'path_to_geckodriver.exe',

Answer 3

• Run webdriver-manager start
• Open any browser manually, than navigate to 'localhost:4444/wd/hub' , click Create Session -> Chrome.

Answer 4

I faced the same issue. Just install or update the protractor. If you still installed the protractor also Do the following steps, run the following in cmd prompt or PowerShell

npm install protractor -g 

npm install webdriver-manager -g

If you got the error as running in the background, check the running processor and close all the running processor and try.

After the above steps run the following

webdriver-manager update
webdriver-manager start