OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally while executing tests through Selenium start on linux

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This error message…

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally

…implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

  • You are using chromedriver=2.9 which is pretty ancient.

So there is a clear mismatch between the ChromeDriver version (v2.33) and the recent Chrome Browser version (vVersion 68.0)

Solution

  • Upgrade ChromeDriver to current ChromeDriver v2.41 level.
  • Keep Chrome version between Chrome v67-69 levels. (as per ChromeDriver v2.41 release notes)
  • Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
  • If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
  • Execute your @Test.

References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

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