Selenium throws an error while creating session, Raspberry Pi 5

[grintroy]

Describe the bug: I'm trying to detect changes in a website that uses JS to render pages. But I'm getting an error every time I check for changes.

Version: v0.45.14

To Reproduce

I'm not sure if this is a hardware-specific problem (again, I'm using Raspberry Pi 5) or not. Anyways, I'm going to describe what I did so far.

1. Created a docker-compose.yml file in a new directory:

version: "3.2"
services:
  changedetection:
    image: ghcr.io/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
    container_name: changedetection
    hostname: changedetection
    volumes:
      - changedetection-data:/datastore
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    restart: unless-stopped
  browser-chrome:
    hostname: browser-chrome
    image: seleniarm/standalone-chromium:4.0.0-20211213
    volumes:
      - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  changedetection-data:

2. Ran docker compose up -d
3. Went to http://raspberrypi.local:5000/, added the new page for tracking changes, set Fetch Method to WebDriver Chrome/Javascript.
4. On the main page, pressed the "Recheck" button
5. Got an error message:

Message: Could not start a new session. Error while creating session with the driver service. Stopping driver service: Driver server process died prematurely. Build info: version: '4.0.0', revision: '3a21814679' System info: host: 'browser-chrome', ip: '172.19.0.3', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'aarch64', os.version: '6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712', java.version: '11.0.12' Driver info: driver.version: unknown Build info: version: '4.0.0', revision: '3a21814679' System info: host: 'browser-chrome', ip: '172.19.0.3', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'aarch64', os.version: '6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712', java.version: '11.0.12' Driver info: driver.version: unknown Stacktrace: at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory.apply (DriverServiceSessionFactory.java:184) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory.apply (DriverServiceSessionFactory.java:65) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.SessionSlot.apply (SessionSlot.java:143) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.LocalNode.newSession (LocalNode.java:315) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor.startSession (LocalDistributor.java:513) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor.newSession (LocalDistributor.java:440) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor$NewSessionRunnable.handleNewSessionRequest (LocalDistributor.java:648) at org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor$NewSessionRunnable.lambda$run$1 (LocalDistributor.java:612) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:829)

Running containers (docker ps -a):

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                          COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS         PORTS                                       NAMES
7c46893f4d84   seleniarm/standalone-chromium:4.0.0-20211213   "/opt/bin/entry_poin…"   19 minutes ago   Up 4 minutes   4444/tcp, 5900/tcp                          changedetection-browser-chrome-1
f7b37a68f297   ghcr.io/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io            "python ./changedete…"   19 minutes ago   Up 4 minutes   0.0.0.0:5000->5000/tcp, :::5000->5000/tcp   changedetection
5eae181efc70   tdeutsch/podsync:latest                        "/app/podsync"           43 hours ago     Up 43 hours    0.0.0.0:8081->8081/tcp, :::8081->8081/tcp   podsync
974729cf3080   ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:dev      "/init"                  5 weeks ago      Up 43 hours                                                homeassistant

Selenium logs (docker logs changedetection-browser-chrome-1):

Selenium Grid Standalone configuration: 
[network]
relax-checks = true

[node]
session-timeout = "300"
override-max-sessions = false
detect-drivers = false
max-sessions = 1

[[node.driver-configuration]]
display-name = "chrome"
stereotype = '{"browserName": "chrome", "browserVersion": ".", "platformName": "Linux"}'
max-sessions = 1

Starting Selenium Grid Standalone...
18:38:47.344 INFO [LoggingOptions.configureLogEncoding] - Using the system default encoding
18:38:47.351 INFO [OpenTelemetryTracer.createTracer] - Using OpenTelemetry for tracing
18:38:48.179 INFO [NodeOptions.getSessionFactories] - Detected 4 available processors
2024-02-29 18:38:48,181 INFO exited: novnc (exit status 1; not expected)
18:38:48.254 INFO [NodeOptions.report] - Adding chrome for {"browserVersion": ".","browserName": "chrome","platformName": "Linux","se:vncEnabled": true} 1 times
18:38:48.275 INFO [Node.<init>] - Binding additional locator mechanisms: name, relative, id
18:38:48.301 INFO [LocalDistributor.add] - Added node a0262137-a3a0-4d12-baea-fa6be4bc2c5e at http://172.19.0.3:4444. Health check every 120s
18:38:48.303 INFO [GridModel.setAvailability] - Switching node a0262137-a3a0-4d12-baea-fa6be4bc2c5e (uri: http://172.19.0.3:4444) from DOWN to UP
18:38:48.514 INFO [Standalone.execute] - Started Selenium Standalone 4.0.0 (revision 3a21814679): http://172.19.0.3:4444
18:38:57.692 INFO [LocalDistributor.newSession] - Session request received by the distributor: 
 [Capabilities {browserName: chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [], extensions: []}, pageLoadStrategy: normal}]
18:38:57.781 WARN [SeleniumSpanExporter$1.lambda$export$0] - {"traceId": "09d320628bed4cc9364267eb6a3e1954","eventTime": 1709231937775312654,"eventName": "exception","attributes": {"exception.message": "Error while creating session with the driver service. Stopping driver service: Driver server process died prematurely.\nBuild info: version: '4.0.0', revision: '3a21814679'\nSystem info: host: 'browser-chrome', ip: '172.19.0.3', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'aarch64', os.version: '6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712', java.version: '11.0.12'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown","exception.stacktrace": "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Driver server process died prematurely.\nBuild info: version: '4.0.0', revision: '3a21814679'\nSystem info: host: 'browser-chrome', ip: '172.19.0.3', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'aarch64', os.version: '6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712', java.version: '11.0.12'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:223)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory.apply(DriverServiceSessionFactory.java:122)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory.apply(DriverServiceSessionFactory.java:65)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.SessionSlot.apply(SessionSlot.java:143)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.LocalNode.newSession(LocalNode.java:315)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor.startSession(LocalDistributor.java:513)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor.newSession(LocalDistributor.java:440)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor$NewSessionRunnable.handleNewSessionRequest(LocalDistributor.java:648)\n\tat org.openqa.selenium.grid.distributor.local.LocalDistributor$NewSessionRunnable.lambda$run$1(LocalDistributor.java:612)\n\tat java.base\u002fjava.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)\n\tat java.base\u002fjava.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)\n\tat java.base\u002fjava.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)\n","exception.type": "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException","logger": "org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.DriverServiceSessionFactory","session.capabilities": "{\"goog:chromeOptions\": {\"extensions\": [  ],  \"args\": [    ]    },    \"browserName\": \"chrome\",    \"pageLoadStrategy\": \"normal\",    \"se:vncEnabled\": true    }\n"}}

18:38:57.796 WARN [SeleniumSpanExporter$1.lambda$export$0] - {"traceId": "09d320628bed4cc9364267eb6a3e1954","eventTime": 1709231937794954552,"eventName": "HTTP request execution complete","attributes": {"http.flavor": 1,"http.handler_class": "org.openqa.selenium.grid.sessionqueue.local.LocalNewSessionQueue","http.host": "browser-chrome:4444","http.method": "POST","http.request_content_length": "164","http.scheme": "HTTP","http.status_code": 500,"http.target": "\u002fsession","http.user_agent": "selenium\u002f4.14.0 (python linux)"}}

Expected behavior: Ability to track the page without an error.

Server machine

• OS: Linux version 6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-2712
• Model: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0

[grintroy]

@dgtlmoon why was this converted to the discussion? Assuming the set up is correct, this might be a specific hardware-related error/bug/compatibility issue.

[dgtlmoon]

@grintroy this is not the selenium project unfortunately

[rukh-debug]

Did you ever resolved this issue?

[grintroy]

Yeah, just switched to Playwright. Had no issues with it so far.