title: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9
body: <p>I am trying to run Selenium tests on Debian 7 but without success.</p>
  
  <p>The error is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally   (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248316,platform=Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae x86) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 60.55 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: '3.2.0-4-686-pae', java.version: '1.7.0_25' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
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  <p>I have <strong>chromedriver 29</strong> with <strong>chrome 34.0.1847.76 beta</strong> running on <strong>Debian 7 32 bits</strong>. I am using <strong>selenium-java 2.33.0</strong></p>
  
  <p>Following this <a href="http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.9/notes.txt">link</a>, <strong>chromedriver 29</strong> is the right version for <strong>chrome 34</strong>. And anyway, previous versions do not work on Debian 7 because of glibc version …</p>
  
  <pre>
  ----------ChromeDriver v2.9 (2014-01-31)----------
  Supports Chrome v31-34
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  <p><strong>[update 1]</strong></p>
  
  <p>I tried with with both <strong>java 7</strong> and <strong>java 6</strong>, still the same problem. <em>May be I should try with java 8 ^^</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>[update 2]</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am using this command to test the chrome driver, to make sure that is not an issue with jenkins:</p>
  
  <pre>
  curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" -d "{\"desiredCapabilities\":{\"platform\":\"ANY\",\"browserName\":\"chrome\",\"chromeOptions\":{\"args\":[],\"extensions\":[]},\"version\":\"\",\"chrome.switches\":[]}}" localhost:12495/session
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  <p>I am getting the same error message:</p>
  
  <pre>
  {"sessionId":"210f3f837a798ee68cd91f089976d0c2","status":13,"value":{"message":"unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally\n  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248316,platform=Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae x86)"}}
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  <p>Any help to know what is going on would be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>