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Webdriver doesn't start on Chrome 54

See original GitHub issue

Webdriver doesn’t run, instead throwing an error:

SessionNotCreatedError: session not created exception

If you update chromedriver to 2.24.1 this issue goes away but I can’t get chromedriver to open a window. 😕

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (9 by maintainers)

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krausestcommented, Oct 20, 2016

can you try to set export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"prior to running the tests? Seems to work for me. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=1552#c35 Maybe that explains why ran within IntelliJ.

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trueadmcommented, Nov 30, 2016

Works fine for me now. Thanks mate.

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