Chromedriver.exe starts, but I still get "Timed out waiting for ChromeDriver server to start". Chrome not starting.

[Daniel Davison]

I actually have just recently started getting this error.

I've been using Eclipse for as long as I can remember, and it works fine
there, but I just recently moved to Intellij IDEA and I can't seem to get
it working there.

webdriver.chrome.driver is set, and nothing has changed. in fact - i
actually checked out the same project that eclipse has where it is working,
but still no dice with running using IntelliJ.

Since a change in IDE should not have an effect on the project contents or
semantics.. i wonder if this issue is something deeper? Possibly between
the differences of jre7/ vs jdk1.7../ ?

I've tried switching my junit configuration to no end - e.g. changing my
working directory, changing the alternate JRE, but still no dice.. This is
a very interesting error!

Hi guys, I am new here, but any help would be appreciated.
I am trying to run a simple selenium test with Chrome. My chromedriver.exe
is in the PATH and the program starts chromedriver (I can see it starting
in the taskmanager in my windows 7).
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
But then instead of starting Chrome, it just sits there, until I get this
\Started ChromeDriver
port=47708
version=19.0.1068.0
log=C:\seltest\chromedriver.log
Exception in thread "main"
org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a
new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or
browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.20.0', revision: '16008', time: '2012-02-27
19:03:04'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1',
java.version: '1.7.0_03'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:435)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:139)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:94)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:144)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:86)
at LoginTest_Chrome.main(LoginTest_Chrome.java:22)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for
ChromeDriver server to start.
Build info: version: '2.20.0', revision: '16008', time: '2012-02-27
19:03:04'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1',
java.version: '1.7.0_03'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.start(ChromeDriverService.java:166)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeCommandExecutor.execute(ChromeCommandExecutor.java:46)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:415)
... 10 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out
waiting for [http://localhost:47708/status, http://localhost:47708/healthz]
to be available after 20002 ms
at
org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:86)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.start(ChromeDriverService.java:164)
... 12 more
java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at
com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
at
org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:61)
... 13 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:258)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:119)
at
com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
... 14 more

[y***@gmail.com]

I met same issue in soapui(the groovy selenium scripts work well in
eclipse, but meet multiple issues in soapui...) and here's the solution:
1. Set Proxy setting in soapui preference
2. Set driver path firstly:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
"C:\\Driver\\browserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

Post by Daniel Davison
I actually have just recently started getting this error.
I've been using Eclipse for as long as I can remember, and it works fine
there, but I just recently moved to Intellij IDEA and I can't seem to get
it working there.
webdriver.chrome.driver is set, and nothing has changed. in fact - i
actually checked out the same project that eclipse has where it is working,
but still no dice with running using IntelliJ.
Since a change in IDE should not have an effect on the project contents or
semantics.. i wonder if this issue is something deeper? Possibly between
the differences of jre7/ vs jdk1.7../ ?
I've tried switching my junit configuration to no end - e.g. changing my
working directory, changing the alternate JRE, but still no dice.. This is
a very interesting error!

Hi guys, I am new here, but any help would be appreciated.
I am trying to run a simple selenium test with Chrome. My
chromedriver.exe is in the PATH and the program starts chromedriver (I can
see it starting in the taskmanager in my windows 7).
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
But then instead of starting Chrome, it just sits there, until I get this
\Started ChromeDriver
port=47708
version=19.0.1068.0
log=C:\seltest\chromedriver.log
Exception in thread "main"
org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a
new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or
browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.20.0', revision: '16008', time: '2012-02-27
19:03:04'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1',
java.version: '1.7.0_03'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:435)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:139)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:94)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:144)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:86)
at LoginTest_Chrome.main(LoginTest_Chrome.java:22)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for
ChromeDriver server to start.
Build info: version: '2.20.0', revision: '16008', time: '2012-02-27
19:03:04'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1',
java.version: '1.7.0_03'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.start(ChromeDriverService.java:166)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeCommandExecutor.execute(ChromeCommandExecutor.java:46)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:415)
... 10 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out
waiting for [http://localhost:47708/status,
http://localhost:47708/healthz] to be available after 20002 ms
at
org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:86)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.start(ChromeDriverService.java:164)
... 12 more
java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at
com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:143)
at
org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:61)
... 13 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:258)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:119)
at
com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:130)
... 14 more