WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally

Question

What I'm trying to achieve Successfully run my protractor tests on headless chrome on Ubuntu 14 non gui.

Set up Using multiple reference pages I have managed to successfully install: Xvfb Chrome latest browser Protractor 3.3.0 Java 7 (also tried with Java 8) and also set the LOCAL_HOME. Also, managed to start the Xvfb using this reference.

Protractor conf

exports.config = {
    baseUrl: 'http://<qa environment>',
    framework: 'jasmine',
    seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
    jasmineNodeOpts: {
        showColors:true,
        defaultTimeoutInterval: 2500000
    },
     capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome'
  },

    specs: ['administration/*-spec.js'],  //'signinandout/*-spec.js', 'homepage/*-spec.js',
    onPrepare: function(){
        //browser.driver.manage().window().setSize(1280, 1080);
    }
}

Exception stack trace:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/error.js:26 constructor(opt_error) { ^ WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.21.371461 (633e689b520b25f3e264a2ede6b74ccc23cb636a),platform=Linux 3.13.0-87-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 60.16 seconds Build info: version: '2.52.0', revision: '4c2593c', time: '2016-02-11 19:06:42' System info: host: 'vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64', ip: '10.0.2.15', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.13.0-87-generic', java.version: '1.7.0_101' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver at WebDriverError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/error.js:26:26) at Object.checkLegacyResponse (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/error.js:580:13) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:64:13 at Promise.invokeCallback_ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:1329:14) at TaskQueue.execute_ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2790:14) at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2773:21) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2652:27 at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:639:7 at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7) From: Task: WebDriver.createSession() at acquireSession (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:62:22) at Function.createSession (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:295:12) at Builder.build (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/builder.js:458:24) at Hosted.DriverProvider.getNewDriver (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/built/driverProviders/driverProvider.js:37:33) at Runner.createBrowser (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:182:43) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:255:30 at _fulfilled (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:834:54) at self.promiseDispatch.done (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:863:30) at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:796:13) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/q/q.js:556:49 [01:09:14] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 1

Answer 1

Check your Google chrome Version and its compatibility with the chrome driver.

You can check that from the Chromedriver Site and download the compatible version.

It worked for me.