Having trouble starting Google Chrome version 61 in CentOS 7 with Selenium WebDriver?

System Information:

  • Operating System: Centos 7
  • Browser: GOOGLE CHROME V61
  • Automation Tool: SELENIUM WEBDRIVER 3.5.3
  • Driver: ChromeDriver 2.30/2.32

Attempted to run Google Chrome manually inside Jenkins slave environment

google-chrome --no-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox &

Encountered the following error:

[31339:31350:1003/144118.591084:ERROR:bus.cc(395)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[1003/144118.702053:ERROR:nacl_helper_linux.cc(310)] NaCl helper process running without a sandbox!
Most likely you need to configure your SUID sandbox correctly

Error Details from Webdriver:

Chrome failed to start: crashed
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477691 (6ee44a7247c639c0703f291d320bdf05c1531b57),platform=Linux 4.4.8-20.46.amzn1.x86_64 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 60.06 seconds
Build info: version: '3.5.3', revision: 'a88d25fe6b', time: '2017-08-29T12:42:44.417Z'
System info: host: 'jenkins-slavev2', ip: '172.17.0.2', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.8-20.46.amzn1.x86_64', java.version: '1.8.0_102'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
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Answer №1

If you encounter this particular error message...

NaCl helper process running without a sandbox!
Most likely you need to configure your SUID sandbox correctly

...it indicates that your system lacks a setuid sandbox, causing the program to fail in starting or creating a new Browsing Context, which is essentially a Chrome Browser session.

Resolution

Even after trying to configure with --no-sandbox and --disable-setuid-sandbox, if the issue persists, the documentation in Linux SUID Sandbox Development states that requires a SUID helper binary to activate the sandbox on Linux. In most cases, you can rectify this by executing:

build/update-linux-sandbox.sh

This script will install the appropriate sandbox in /usr/local/sbin and prompt you to update your .bashrc file if needed.

However, there may be exceptions such as outdated setuid binaries leading to errors like:

Running without the SUID sandbox!

Or

The setuid sandbox provides API version X, but you need Y
You are using a wrong version of the setuid binary!

In these scenarios, follow these steps:

  • Compile chrome_sandbox whenever building chrome (
    ninja -C xxx chrome chrome_sandbox
    instead of ninja -C xxx chrome)

  • Post compilation, run update-linux-sandbox.sh.

    # necessary for building on NFS!
sudo cp out/Debug/chrome_sandbox /usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox

  • Lastly, include the following line in your ~/.bashrc (or .zshenv):

    export CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX=/usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox

tl; dr

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Answer №2

After investigating further, it became evident that some dependencies were missing and causing the issue ()

yum install liberation-mono-fonts liberation-narrow-fonts liberation-sans-fonts liberation-serif-fonts

The problem was resolved by installing the aforementioned packages!

Hopefully this information proves helpful.

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