How to run selenium cases in linux server using Chrome Browser in Headless Mode

This scenario has tested on - Oracle Linux 7.6 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)

Pre-Setup:
• Jenkins server
• A Maven project with selenium case

Install google chrome as root:

yum-config-manager --enable ol7_optional_latest

yum -y install redhat-lsb libXScrnSaver

Install xvfb as root:
yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb

Start display:
Xvfb -ac :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 & export DISPLAY=:99

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);


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Trobuleshoot:
1.The driver is not executable: Copy chromedriver and give 777 permission

[aliadnan]

Thank you so much. Your video gave us a much needed direction. We were facing this issue where every time we ran our tests on jenkins (linux server) we getting this "server not started" error. After spending week and various solutions, this video turns out to be the saviour for us. Thanks again

[devx]

Just what I needed . You were on point

[irfankhan-cdgb]

Dint get the part of how and where to put chrome installation command
And would these installation steps have to be run everytime the job is kicked off?

[dabbark]

Thanks for the nice video.
I have a query corrresponding to the chrome installation in Ubuntu. Actually, I do not have the permisson to login into Ubuntu, I am just trying to run my selenium script through Jenkins script and on remote ubuntu by placing the OS label. I am not sure whether chrome is installed or not in the remote, I am getting 'cannot find chrome binary' error.
Can you please help me with different ways how to get the chrome browser installed in that machine if someone doesn't have access to it

[syedsameer]

Hi,
How to add settings.xml
When I run the build it's giving me error saying package org.openqa.selenium does not exist

[priyankapradhan]

Does it is mandatory to have Jenkins server to run selenium code in eclipse ( Ubuntu OS)

[victorrpf]

Is it possible from headless mode switch to the GUI mode WITHOUT CLOSING the browser?

[karthikeyanmuralidharan]

Instead of normal login, if you have SSO windows authentication for sigin. How it works here

[gmafsal]

Great video. Is there an option to watch the Chrome UI live when the test is running? I installed XVNC viewer and can see Ubuntu UI now. But chrome is running on headless mode and if I make it non-headless, teat fails with Chrome error.

[dineshb]

can you please provide me video how to run test cases using chrome browser using This helps me alot...
Thanks in advance

[vidyacollections]

is it possible for us to run selenium cases in non-headless option on centos operating system?

[manipunnavalli]

I am using robot framework. as u suggested i kept my drivers in project and giving that path. Jenkins is hosted in linux slave. I installed chrome browser in the required path. Previously i got permission denied issue. That issue resolved with 777 command. Now i am getting 403 error. m doing all this with headless chrome. Do i need to do anything else. Can you suggest me

[wcdeich]

I'm using Node.JS Selenium in Ubuntu Linux & no matter what, I get this error:
WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
at Object.throwDecodedError
at parseHttpResponse
at Executor.execute
at processTicksAndRejections {
remoteStacktrace: '#0 0x55cb4be9f689 <unknown>\n'

[rinkishahi]

My job is failing at the code for pop-up in headless chrome in Linux.
Please help, I am stuck here.

[rajeeshgn]

i am getting this error even after tried with headless option in AWS EC2 linux instance

Chrome and chrome driver used 84

[INFO] Running runners.TestRunner
Starting ChromeDriver 84.0.4147.30 on port 10206
Only local connections are allowed.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.
Failed scenarios:
logintest.feature:6 # Scenario: Title of your scenario

1 Scenarios (1 failed)
4 Steps (1 failed, 3 skipped)
0m1.797s

unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed.
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Build info: version: '3.11.0', revision: 'e59cfb3', time: '2018-03-11T20:26:55.152Z'
System info: host: 'ip-172-31-38-46.us-east-2.compute.internal', ip: '172.31.38.46', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.14.198-152.320.amzn2.x86_64', java.version: '11.0.8'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
remote stacktrace: #0 0x55c35ba9aea9 <unknown>