Chrome not reachable Selenium WebDriver error

Question

I am facing this issue; I know this question is already present and I have tried the solutions mentioned hence asking this with my configurations and code.

Earlier the scripts were running but now they aren't So i tried making a basic open browser script.

Latest Version of Selenium WebDriver : http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/3.5/selenium-java-3.5.0.zip

Latest Version on ChromeDriver : http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.31/

Basic Open browser code:

package Trial;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Trial_Class {
    public static void main(String args[]){
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get("http://www.youtube.com");
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    }
}

But still I am getting the below error:

 Starting ChromeDriver 2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8) on port 43967
Only local connections are allowed.
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: chrome not reachable
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8),platform=Windows NT 6.3.9600 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 61.81 seconds
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: 'SWATI', ip: '192.168.0.5', os.name: 'Windows 8.1', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.3', java.version: '1.8.0_121'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:215)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:167)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonWireProtocolResponse.lambda$new$0(JsonWireProtocolResponse.java:53)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonWireProtocolResponse.lambda$getResponseFunction$2(JsonWireProtocolResponse.java:91)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.lambda$createSession$24(ProtocolHandshake.java:360)
    at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline$3$1.accept(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.Spliterators$ArraySpliterator.tryAdvance(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.forEachWithCancel(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyIntoWithCancel(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.FindOps$FindOp.evaluateSequential(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.findFirst(Unknown Source)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:363)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:137)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:142)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:641)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:254)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:236)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:137)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:178)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:167)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:124)
    at Trial.Trial_Class.main(Trial_Class.java:11)

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Your chromedriver is starting just fine:

"Starting ChromeDriver 2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8) on port 43967"

The problem is the browser itself is not responding. So I have two ideas:

1) Your browser is not installed in the default location; If this is the case, add this to your code:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("/path/to/other/chrome/binary");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, chromeOptions);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

2) Your browser is latest version, but your chromedriver isn't - current is 2.33

Answer 2

I found that chromedriver had hard time to resolve localhost and during that it printed

Timed out connecting to Chrome, retrying...

It first tried to connect via ipv6 and then I guess fall back to ipv4. So what worked for me was to change the priority of "localhosts" this way

The only piece you should need to do is change the priority:

Open RegEdit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip6\Parameters Create DisabledComponents DWORD registry value, set its value to 20 (Hexadecimal). src