title: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.8.undefined
body: <p>When running selenium test from <strong>jenkins</strong>, I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre>
  org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.8.undefined,platform=Linux 3.13-1-686-pae x86) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
  Command duration or timeout: 20.54 seconds
  Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4ecaf82108b2a6cc6f006aae81961236eba93358', time: '2013-05-22 12:00:17'
  System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'i386', os.version: '3.13-1-686-pae', java.version: '1.6.0_45'
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
  </pre>
  
  <p>and further in the stack trace: </p>
  
  <pre>
  DEBUG - Sending request: POST /session HTTP/1.1<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;POST /session HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;Accept: application/json, image/png[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;Content-Length: 143[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;Host: localhost:30992[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;Connection: Keep-Alive[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; POST /session HTTP/1.1<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; Accept: application/json, image/png<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; Content-Length: 143<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; Host: localhost:30992<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; Connection: Keep-Alive<br/>DEBUG - &gt;&gt; &quot;{&quot;desiredCapabilities&quot;:{&quot;platform&quot;:&quot;ANY&quot;,&quot;browserName&quot;:&quot;chrome&quot;,&quot;chromeOptions&quot;:{&quot;args&quot;:[],&quot;extensions&quot;:[]},&quot;version&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;chrome.switches&quot;:[]}}&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; &quot;HTTP/1.1 200 OK[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; &quot;Content-Length:218[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; &quot;Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; &quot;Connection:close[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; &quot;[\r][\n]&quot;<br/>DEBUG - Receiving response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; Content-Length:218<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; Connection:close<br/>DEBUG - &lt;&lt; &quot;{&quot;sessionId&quot;:&quot;a272d037ff7f0bff2cfb2a49e052c02a&quot;,&quot;status&quot;:13,&quot;value&quot;:{&quot;message&quot;:&quot;unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally\n  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.8.undefined,platform=Linux 3.13-1-686-pae x86)&quot;}}&quot;<br/>DEBUG - Connection shut down
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  <p>I am <strong>not</strong> using selenium grid. </p>
  
  <p>The strange thing is that I am able to launch chrome when sending commands to chromedriver directly as in the following command:</p>
  
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  curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" -d "{\"desiredCapabilities\":{\"platform\":\"ANY\",\"browserName\":\"chrome\",\"chromeOptions\":{\"args\":[],\"extensions\":[]},\"version\":\"\",\"chrome.switches\":[]}}" localhost:9515/session
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  <p>A Chromimum window opens here.</p>
  
  <p>I am using Debian jessie (testing) with chromimum and chromedriver installed with <strong>aptitude</strong>. This is to get homogeneous versions.</p>
  
  <pre>
  $ google-chrome  -version
  Chromium 33.0.1750.152 Debian jessie/sid
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  <pre>
  ./chromedriver -v
  Starting ChromeDriver (v2.8.undefined) on port 9515
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  <p>I have also created an other issue with a previous version of Debian, you could read to know more what I tried before. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22558077/unknown-error-chrome-failed-to-start-exited-abnormally-driver-info-chromedri">unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9</a></p>