Instapy: (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)

Created on 13 Aug 2018 · 20Comments · Source: timgrossmann/InstaPy

Current Behavior

Message: 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.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.41.578700 (2f1ed5f9343c13f73144538f15c00b370eda6706),platform=Linux 4.4.0-131-generic x86_64)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 300, in set_selenium_local_session
    chrome_options=chrome_options)
  File "/root/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 75, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "/root/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 156, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/root/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 251, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/root/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/root/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
WebDriverException: Message: 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.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.41.578700 (2f1ed5f9343c13f73144538f15c00b370eda6706),platform=Linux 4.4.0-131-generic x86_64)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "quickstart.py", line 23, in <module>
    multi_logs=True)
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 193, in __init__
    self.set_selenium_local_session()
  File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 304, in set_selenium_local_session
    Settings.chromedriver_location))
instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /root/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver

My Configuration File :

import os
import time
from tempfile import gettempdir

from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

from instapy import InstaPy

insta_username = 'xxxx'
insta_password = 'xxxx'

# set headless_browser=True if you want to run InstaPy on a server

# set these in instapy/settings.py if you're locating the
# library in the /usr/lib/pythonX.X/ directory:
#   Settings.database_location = '/path/to/instapy.db'
#   Settings.chromedriver_location = '/path/to/chromedriver'

session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
                  password=insta_password,
                  headless_browser=False,
                  nogui=True,
                  multi_logs=True)

try:
    session.login()

    # settings
    session.set_relationship_bounds(enabled=True,
                                 potency_ratio=-1.21,
                                  delimit_by_numbers=True,
                                   max_followers=4590,
                                    max_following=5555,
                                     min_followers=45,
                                      min_following=77)
    session.set_do_comment(True, percentage=10)
    session.set_comments(['aMEIzing!', 'So much fun!!', 'Nicey!'])
    session.set_dont_include(['friend1', 'friend2', 'friend3'])
    session.set_dont_like(['pizza', 'girl'])

    # actions
    session.like_by_tags(['natgeo'], amount=1)

except Exception as exc:
    # if changes to IG layout, upload the file to help us locate the change
    if isinstance(exc, NoSuchElementException):
        file_path = os.path.join(gettempdir(), '{}.html'.format(time.strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')))
        with open(file_path, 'wb') as fp:
            fp.write(session.browser.page_source.encode('utf8'))
        print('{0}\nIf raising an issue, please also upload the file located at:\n{1}\n{0}'.format(
            '*' * 70, file_path))
    # full stacktrace when raising Github issue
    raise

finally:
    # end the bot session
    session.end()

But work for headless_browser=True then i can't use Proxy . is it Chrome issue ?

wontfix

Source

Mehran

Most helpful comment

I'm facing the same issue. Please don't close it.

amresh1495 on 7 Jan 2019

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All 20 comments

as the last error message pointed out instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /root/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver

please make sure you have the latest Chromedriver in your assets folder

CharlesCCC on 14 Aug 2018

yes last Google chrome and Chrome Driver installed .

Mehran on 14 Aug 2018

i was able to resolve this with using the chromedriver beta from electron:

the lastest release from this page https://github.com/electron/electron/releases

in my case (raspberry pi / stretch 4) this was:
https://github.com/electron/electron /releases/download/v3.0.0-beta.5/chromedriver-v3.0.0-beta.5-linux-armv7l.zip

installed chromium-browser via apt-get (v68) and then pip install the dependencies.
worked like charme... hopefully this helps somebody

gherkins on 14 Aug 2018

@gherkins are u using headless_browser=False , i try but not work in Ubuntu .

Mehran on 15 Aug 2018

@Mehran did you pick the right chromedriver version for your OS?
should be https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v3.0.0-beta.5/chromedriver-v3.0.0-beta.5-linux-x64.zip for a 64 ubuntu...

gherkins on 15 Aug 2018

@gherkins Yes sure , i also try below for test

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/root/driver/chromedriver')

but not working , i think you try it on RaspberryPi right ?

Mehran on 15 Aug 2018

yep, on raspberry, but similar issues...

do you have sufficient permissions for /root/driver ?

also did you try running chromedriver manually with the verbose option?
./chromedriver --verbose then call it via curl for example

curl -XPOST http://localhost:9515/session -d '{"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome"}}'

in my case even that was throwing errors (never worked though) but i got less errors w/ the electron version, and that version then worked with python...

gherkins on 15 Aug 2018

@gherkins Yes permission is okey .
when i comment #chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')its work and when uncomment not work .
it something on Google Chrome or Driver issue ..

Mehran on 15 Aug 2018

@Mehran it sounds like whatever version/platform you are using for chromedriver doesn't support that flag.

CharlesCCC on 15 Aug 2018

@CharlesCCC i try Ubuntu 14,16,18 debian 9 with last google-chrome-stable and driver but same, when i not use --headless chrome crash, what os u tested?

Mehran on 15 Aug 2018

same error

m-henderson on 20 Aug 2018

Hi ,

 I have already using the https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v3.0.0-beta.5/chromedriver-v3.0.0-beta.5-linux-x64.zip for a 64 ubuntu..., , but still have the following error !

whats wrong !

root@ubuntu:~/InstaPy/assets# ls -ltr
total 10132
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 Aug 28 08:01 unicodes.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10367352 Aug 28 19:47 chromedriver

root@ubuntu:~/InstaPy/assets# cd ..
root@ubuntu:~/InstaPy# python3 quickstart.py
ERROR [2018-08-28 19:51:11] [nova168168] Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.36 (a81166ad79e68fbfe7cf5ba243192d6412e26b37),platform=Linux 4.4.0-87-generic x86_64)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 300, in set_selenium_local_session
chrome_options=chrome_options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 90, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 177, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.36 (a81166ad79e68fbfe7cf5ba243192d6412e26b37),platform=Linux 4.4.0-87-generic x86_64)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 300, in set_selenium_local_session
chrome_options=chrome_options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 90, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 177, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.36 (a81166ad79e68fbfe7cf5ba243192d6412e26b37),platform=Linux 4.4.0-87-generic x86_64)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "quickstart.py", line 22, in
multi_logs=True)
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 193, in __init__
self.set_selenium_local_session()
File "/root/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 304, in set_selenium_local_session
Settings.chromedriver_location))
instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /root/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver

Nova

nova168168 on 29 Aug 2018

same error

alex-wahl on 28 Sep 2018

The same issue exist on windows 10.

I followed all the steps from this reference : http://chromedriver.chromium.org/help/chrome-doesn-t-start

Chrome Driver: 2.42.591088 [Supports Chrome v68-70]
Chrome browser: 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Here's the exception:
WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591088 (7b2b2dca23cca0862f674758c9a3933e685c27d5),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)

Do we have an alternate solution for this issue?

karthickdm on 5 Oct 2018

I fixed something similar to this by commenting the following line. When I pull, I always have to bring in this one change. I'm sure there's a better way. This is only an issue when I run for the first time to get past the security question, and then I go back to headless.

[dmathis@CentOS InstaPy]$ diff instapy/instapy.py ../InstaPy.2018.10.07/instapy/instapy.py
296c296
<             chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-setuid-sandbox')
---
>             # chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-setuid-sandbox')

dbmathis on 7 Oct 2018

So far no solution available. Anyone is looking at the issue ?

karthickdm on 30 Oct 2018

The problem was fixed when I changed the headless_browser=True and no_gui=False.

SeanFmcdonnell on 31 Oct 2018

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