Selenium use chrome on Colab got unexpectedly exited

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These log messages…

Get:1  bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [1,159 kB]
Get:2  bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [83.6 MB]
Get:3  bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser-l10n all 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [5,230 kB]
Get:4  bionic-updates/universe amd64 chromium-chromedriver amd64 108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5 [5,594 kB]
...
...
Setting up chromium-chromedriver (108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5) ...
Setting up chromium-browser-l10n (108.0.5359.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1.6) ...

…is the result of an issue induced as the colab system is updated from v18.04 to ubuntu 20.04 LTS recently.

Quick Fix

@mco-gh created a new notebook following @metrizable‘s guidance
(details below) which is working perfect as of now:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1cbEvuZOhkouYLda3RqiwtbM-o9hxGLyC

Details

In the discussion Issues when trying to use Chromedriver in Colab @EvanWiederspan clearly mentioned:

We recently upgraded the Ubuntu version, which may be causing this.
After connecting to a runtime, can you try running “Use fallback
runtime version” from the command palette (ctrl + shift + p)

@metrizable in his comment further clarified:

I understand that you’d like to use selenium with chromium-browser
under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Although YMMV, since Ubuntu 20.04+ no longer
distributes chromium-browser outside of a snap package, you can
install a compatible version from the Debian buster repository

Sample code:

%%shell
# Ubuntu no longer distributes chromium-browser outside of snap
#
# Proposed solution: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204571/how-to-install-chromium-without-snap

# Add debian buster
cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list <<'EOF'
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-buster.gpg] http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-buster-updates.gpg] http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-security-buster.gpg] http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
EOF

# Add keys
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DCC9EFBF77E11517
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 648ACFD622F3D138
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 112695A0E562B32A

apt-key export 77E11517 | gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian-buster.gpg
apt-key export 22F3D138 | gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian-buster-updates.gpg
apt-key export E562B32A | gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian-security-buster.gpg

# Prefer debian repo for chromium* packages only
# Note the double-blank lines between entries
cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/chromium.pref << 'EOF'
Package: *
Pin: release a=eoan
Pin-Priority: 500


Package: *
Pin: origin "deb.debian.org"
Pin-Priority: 300


Package: chromium*
Pin: origin "deb.debian.org"
Pin-Priority: 700
EOF

# Install chromium and chromium-driver
apt-get update
apt-get install chromium chromium-driver

# Install selenium
pip install selenium

Note

Generally the following line of code will install the snap too:

sudo apt install chromium-chromedriver

incase it doesn’t you have to manually install the snap using:

sudo snap install chromium

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