Selenium: RESPONSE InitSession unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally

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OS: CentOS 7.3
Selenium Version: 2.53.1
Browser: Chrome v62.0.3202.75
ChromeDriver: v2.33.506092

Can someone help me ? thank you very much!

[lmtierney]

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[lazb]

I have same problem. I'm using this script to install all dependencies: https://gist.github.com/ziadoz/3e8ab7e944d02fe872c3454d17af31a5

Then I run:

 chromedriver --url-base=/wd/hub --log-path=/tmp/chromedriver.log
Starting ChromeDriver 2.33.506092 (733a02544d189eeb751fe0d7ddca79a0ee28cce4) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.

And when I start functional test with codeception I get:
[Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnknownServerException] unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506092 (733a02544d189eeb751fe0d7ddca79a0ee28cce4),platform=Linux 4.6.3-coreos x86_64)

[ambirag]

@lazb i get the same on Ubuntu, ticket with Chromedriver project https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=2123 if you can provide any more data, please do

[lazb]

@ambirag I've checked linked issue and for me actually it was problem that in codeception I forgot to add --no-sandbox arg

chromeOptions: args: ["--headless", "--disable-gpu", "--window-size=1920,1080", "--no-sandbox"] binary: "/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable"

[andreasneuber]

Had they same strange problem - adding --no-sandbox to chromeOptions did the trick.
Thanks lazb for mentioning.