WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally

[xeliaaa]

I was trying to use the alright package in Google Colaboratory, so I install chromium-chromedriver using the code listed below (I did this after installing both alright and selenium)

!apt install chromium-chromedriver

After the installation, I tried to find user using the Whatsapp().find_user('some phone number') and I ended up getting an error which I had screenshot and also copied below.

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WebDriverException Traceback (most recent call last)
in
1 from alright import WhatsApp
----> 2 messenger = WhatsApp()
3 messenger.find_user('12345')

6 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py in check_response(self, response)
243 alert_text = value["alert"].get("text")
244 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, alert_text) # type: ignore[call-arg] # mypy is not smart enough here
--> 245 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/chromium-browser is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Stacktrace:
#0 0x5624325cdd93
#1 0x56243239c2d7
#2 0x5624323c4ab0
#3 0x5624323c0a3d
#4 0x5624324054f4
#5 0x5624323fc353
#6 0x5624323cbe40
#7 0x5624323cd038
#8 0x5624326218be
#9 0x5624326258f0
#10 0x562432605f90
#11 0x562432626b7d
#12 0x5624325f7578
#13 0x56243264b348
#14 0x56243264b4d6
#15 0x562432665341
#16 0x7f7763f1b609 start_thread

[Kalebu]

@xeliaaa Alright does not currently support running on headless mode so you need to run it in a GUI where the chrome window gets launched so when it comes to Google Colab it won't work as there is no way to launch a chrome window.