Chromedriver text file busy

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I have an app that runs selenium and does some testing. when I run my code in stand-alone, it works perfectly. But when I run it several times, to test multiple things in the same time, I get an error.

Here is my code :

    chrome_options = Options()
    chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
    chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
    chrome_options.add_argument("window-size=1920,1080")
    chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-features=NetworkService")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install(), options=chrome_options)
    driver.get(URL)

and here's the error

    files = self.__unpack(file_path)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/webdriver_manager/driver_cache.py", line 99, in __unpack
    return extract_zip(path, to_directory)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/webdriver_manager/archive.py", line 7, in extract_zip
    archive.extractall(to_directory)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/zipfile.py", line 1524, in extractall
    self._extract_member(zipinfo, path, pwd)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.6/zipfile.py", line 1578, in _extract_member
    open(targetpath, "wb") as target:
    OSError: [Errno 26] Text file busy: '/home/root/.wdm/drivers/chromedriver/80.0.3987.106/linux64/chromedriver'

my understanding is that there is an instance of chromedriver which is already running, which is possible as I can run this code in the background. How can I handle this error?

selenium-chromedriver selenium python
2 Answers

I believe you are right: the error happens when there is already an instance of chrome running.

To fix first find the processes running chrome. You can do this by search processes which contain the name chrome like so:

pidof chrome

Then you can kill all of them like so:

pkill -f chrome

Re-running your code afterwards should not produce this error.

user_18039080

I meet this error recently, I tried "rsync" to copy the chromedriver to a new directory, then update the environment variable to the new path, and it works.

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