MS Edge driver selenium error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist , works

Question

MSEdgeDriver and browser version used 88.0.705.63 (64 bit). Works when provided with edge options.addArguments("--headless"); but does not worked when this is removed. The below error is thrown
Message: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:17:03' System info: host: 'A036T0L6347NRVX', ip: '10.227.221.75', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_66' Driver info: driver.version: EdgeDriver remote stacktrace: Backtrace: Ordinal0 [0x00007FF6D6D0AF92+241554] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D747CA88+2173368] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D749FAC8+2316792] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D7499BC9+2292473] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D74CB760+2496144] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D74C7A5F+2480527] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D74A550A+2339898] GetHandleVerifier [0x00007FF6D74A614B+2343035] Ordinal0 [0x00007FF6D6CE2D01+77057]
Edge options used : `` EdgeOptions options = new EdgeOptions(); options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); options.setBinary("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe"); options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage"); // overcome limited resource problems options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); // disabling infobars options.addArguments("--disable-extensions"); // disabling extensions options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); // applicable to windows os only options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");

Answer 1

Hi @Shetty

I think the issue has been solved in your stackoverflow post :)

Adding --remote-debugging-port=<port> as a workaround.

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