@ammarft-ai, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

I am not sure how we can help. You need to make sure the profile is not being used.

This could be caused by trying to access a profile that's already in use, or if the profile is not readable/writeable (yours seems to be owned by root?)

Either way, the error message is coming from chromedriver, so I don't think there is anything to fix from the selenium side.

It also occurs in my environment.
I am running my tool with administrator privileges.
This error does not occur except when running as administrator.
I assume that an Edge version update triggers this error.

OS:Windows10
language:c#

It also occurs in my environment. I am running my tool with administrator privileges. This error does not occur except when running as administrator. I assume that an Edge version update triggers this error.

OS:Windows10 language:c#

I don't know the cause, but I avoided the error by running msedgedriver.exe before initializing the driver.

• Environment where it occurred

• OS: Windows 10
• c# Selenium Webdriver 4.2.0
• msedge: 133.0.6943.127

static void Main()
        {
            string exePath = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
            string exeDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(exePath);
            String GetDrivePath = exeDirectory;
            String driverFileName = "msedgedriver.exe";


            EdgeDriverService eds = EdgeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(GetDrivePath, driverFileName);
            eds.HideCommandPromptWindow = true;
            eds.SuppressInitialDiagnosticInformation = true;

            StartProcessAsStandardUser(GetDrivePath + "\\" + driverFileName, eds.Port);

            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
            EdgeOptions options = GetBrowserOption;
            string navigateUrl = "https://www.google.com";
            using (var driver = new EdgeDriver(eds, options))
            {
                driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2);
                driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("about:blank");
                driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(navigateUrl);
            }
        }

public static void StartProcessAsStandardUser(string fileName, int port)
        {

            ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                FileName = "runas.exe",
                Arguments = $"/trustlevel:0x20000 \"{fileName} --port={port}\"",
                UseShellExecute = true,
                CreateNoWindow = true,
                WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
            };

            try
            {
                psi.WorkingDirectory = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Windows);
                var proc = Process.Start(psi);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

            }
        }

Try running chromdriver.exe from the command line, passing it the --user-data-dir argument and supplying the location of your profile. That will verify this is an issue with ChromeDriver and not selenium.

However, since the error is coming from ChromeDriver... this doesn't look like a selenium issue and it should reported to the ChromeDriver devs.

@thepbnk

Why are you running as Admin?

Also, the reported issue was for Chrome, not Edge.

@cgoldberg
Running it with administrator rights was a method I found while looking for a way to reproduce the error.

The PC where the error occurred did not have administrator rights, but it did occur. And I was able to avoid the error with this method.

Although it is a Chrome issue, I thought that a similar method could be used, so I left a comment.

I am running my tool with administrator privileges.
This error does not occur except when running as administrator.

If running as admin (in Windows) or with sudo (in Linux), can you try to pass browser arg --no-sandbox to see any help?
Refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/70385974/14532601, #14609 (comment)

@niceguy4, I saw your comment mentioned the issue when you ran test in the container, and fix by installing missing deps via apt install. I am not sure the browser pre-configure, but looks like you are using chrome-linux64.zip from chrome-for-testing, in package there is a file deb.deps with mention all deps needed for chrome can be launched, I think you can refer to that to keep container env install enough deps.

Same issue but it occurred when upgrading from 131 to upper version With the same parameters to launch cromedriver.
Isn't there any way to check what changed between 131 And 132 for example in chrome driver to find the solution ?

Isn't there any way to check what changed between 131 And 132 for example in chrome driver to find the solution ?

@ssada1975

You'll have to take that up with chrome/chromedriver maintainers.

@thos-grol When this occurred, were you running as Admin?

I was using admin. But with that option it now works even though I am using it.
In my past runs I was also using it too, so whatever change the edge driver creators made broke stuff.

@niceguy4, I saw your comment mentioned the issue when you ran test in the container, and fix by installing missing deps via apt install. I am not sure the browser pre-configure, but looks like you are using chrome-linux64.zip from chrome-for-testing, in package there is a file deb.deps with mention all deps needed for chrome can be launched, I think you can refer to that to keep container env install enough deps.

@VietND96 Thank you!

If you are using ubuntu bash, u have to run this commend before runing a selenium program
sudo apt install -y libxss1 libappindicator3-1 libindicator7
and add the folwoing arguments if you are using and ubuntu rdp:
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")

For what it's worth I was also getting this recently with a new job I was running on GitHub Actions.
I fixed it by enabling this step to set xvfb and fluxbox: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/ffbfa024/.github/workflows/bazel.yml#L142-L148

Since this is not an issue that can be addressed by making changes in Selenium codebase, I'm going to close it. Thanks everyone for reporting and providing help. I'll include links below for getting additional help.

💬 Please ask questions at:

• 📫 The Selenium user group
• 📮 StackOverflow
• 🗣 Our IRC/Slack/Matrix channels where the community can help you as well

Also, make sure chromedriver is installed: chromedriver --version
If not install with: apt install chromium-chromedriver