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.

In most such cases your specific driver version doesn't work with the specific browser version. Try different versions of both, also read what the devs say about support. It could also get more complicated for different systems like your Mac. On my Raspberry Pi for example I searched nearly 2 hours for driver-browser version pair that worked. — Zabuzard

Radu Ciobanu Radu Ciobanu · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-02T15:00:06

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!

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

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