Selenium 3.7 webdriver Error: Timed out waiting for driver server to start

Question

Upgraded to Selenium 3.7 recently and ran into error.

Error trace log:

Debug 1 Debug 2 Starting ChromeDriver 2.33.506106 (8a06c39c4582fbfbab6966dbb1c38a9173bfb1a2) on port 2198 Only local connections are allowed. Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start. Build info: version: '3.7.1', revision: '8a0099a', time: '2017-11-06T21:07:36.161Z' System info: host: 'Maggies-MacBook-Pro-2.local', ip: '192.168.1.6', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.12.6', java.version: '1.8.0_121' Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:192) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:178) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:79) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:600) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:219) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:142) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:181) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:168) at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:123) at AutomationFrameWork.FirstTestCase.main(FirstTestCase.java:13) Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker$TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for [http://localhost:2198/status] to be available after 20005 ms at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:100) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:187) ... 9 more Caused by: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:205) at com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.callWithTimeout(SimpleTimeLimiter.java:147) at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.waitUntilAvailable(UrlChecker.java:75) ... 10 more

Code:

public static void main (String args[]){
    System.out.println("Debug 1");
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/maggie/Documents/ToolsQA/Libs/chromedriver"); 
    System.out.println("Debug 2");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    System.out.println("Debug 3");
    driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    driver.quit();
}

Included Libraries: selenium-server-standalone-3.7.1.jar

System Environment:

Mac OS: '10.12.6'

java.version: '1.8.0_121'

selenium-server-standalone-3.7.1.jar

geckodriver - v0.19.1

ChromeDriver 2.33

Chrome Version 62.0.3202.89 (64-bit)

Thank you for any thought.

Answer 1

I had the same issue, on Mac OS. Check your /etc/hosts file and make sure you have 127.0.0.1 binding to localhost. I was missing that, added it and voila!