[FIXED] How to resolve 'Process unexpectedly closed with status 11' for Selenium in IPython?

Issue

I run the following code in IPython (from official Python extension VSCode):

# %%
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox(
    executable_path='.driver/geckodriver')

It gives me the following errors:

• For GeckoDriver 0.28.0

WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status 11

• For GeckkoDriver 0.27.0:

WebDriverException: Message: invalid argument: can't kill an exited process

My setup:

Firefox: 82.0
GeckoDriver: 0.28.0
Selenium: 3.141.0
IPython: 7.19.0
Ubuntu: 20.10
Python3 venv

Note: This script works in terminal but not IPython

Thank you.

Solution

I had the same issue with Firefox driver and I change it to Chrome driver it works well now

# install chromium, its driver, and selenium
!apt update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!pip install selenium

# set options to be headless, ..
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

# open it, go to a website, and get results
wd = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
wd.get("https://www.website.com")

print(wd.page_source)  # results

Answered By - Moumen Lahmidi