Steps to reproduce the problem

Following is my Dockerfile which is in ubi8 FROM registry-access-redhat-com.repo.cci.company.net/ubi8/ubi-minimal

RUN rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo &&
sed -i 's#cdn-ubi.redhat.com/content/public/ubi#repo.cci.company.net/cdn-ubi-redhat-com#' /etc/yum.repos.d/ubi.repo ADD repos/rpm.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/

#CUSTOM ARGS FOR BUILDING IMAGE ARG REPO_HTTPS_URL ARG external_requirements_repo=$REPO_HTTPS_URL/api/pypi/python/simple ARG requirements_repo=$REPO_HTTPS_URL/api/pypi/pypi-dependencies/simple ARG internal_requirements_repo=$REPO_HTTPS_URL/pypi-candidates-local/ ARG py_candidates_repo=$REPO_HTTPS_URL/api/pypi/pypi-candidates/simple ARG rbac_repo=$REPO_HTTPS_URL/dsrbac-pypi-releases ARG CHROME_VERSION=133.0.6943.98

ENV CHROME_BIN=/opt/google/chrome/chrome
CHROMEDRIVER_HOME=/opt/chromedriver
CHROMEDRIVER=/opt/chromedriver/chromedriver
JMETER_HOME=/opt/jmeter/apache-jmeter-5.6.3

RUN microdnf install shadow-utils wget gzip zip unzip xz tcl tk openblas gcc libxslt libstdc++ util-linux librdkafka librdkafka-devel vulkan alsa-lib libappindicator-gtk3 libXScrnSaver libXcomposite libXcursor libXdamage libXext libXfixes libXi libXrandr libXtst libdrm liberation-fonts libgbm xdg-utils java-17-openjdk openssl-1.1.1k-12.el8_9.x86_64 Python-3.11.7-1.el8.x86_64 vi
&& microdnf clean all
&& cd /root && wget -q "https://repo.cci.company.net/eu_apache_org_dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-5.6.3.zip"
&& unzip apache-jmeter-5.6.3.zip -d /opt/jmeter && rm -f apache-jmeter-5.6.3.zip
&& wget https://repo.cci.company.net/google-chrome-rpm-remote/x86_64/google-chrome-stable-${CHROME_VERSION}-1.x86_64.rpm && rpm -Uvh google-chrome-stable-${CHROME_VERSION}-1.x86_64.rpm && rm -f google-chrome-stable-${CHROME_VERSION}-1.x86_64.rpm && rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
&& export http_proxy=http://10.144.1.10:8080 && export https_proxy=http://10.144.1.10:8080
&& wget -q https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/${CHROME_VERSION}/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip
&& unzip -qq -j chromedriver-linux64.zip -d $CHROMEDRIVER_HOME && rm chromedriver-linux64.zip && chmod ugo+rwx $CHROMEDRIVER

RUN ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/local/bin/python

COPY src ./ COPY pip.conf /etc/pip.conf

RUN ldconfig /usr/local/lib
&& ldconfig /usr/local/lib
&& /usr/local/bin/pip3.11 install --no-cache-dir -U virtualenv==20.25.1 setuptools==65.7.0
&& export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
&& /usr/local/bin/pip3.11 install --upgrade --index-url ${external_requirements_repo} -r requirements.txt
&& /usr/local/bin/pip3.11 install --index-url ${requirements_repo} avro==1.11.3 confluent-kafka==2.3.0 pandas greenlet==3.0.3 locust invokust
&& /usr/local/bin/pip3.11 install --index-url ${py_candidates_repo} unified_logging==25.3.1.post657
&& /usr/local/bin/pip3.11 install -r clients.txt --index-url ${internal_requirements_repo} --extra-index-url ${external_requirements_repo} --extra-index-url ${rbac_repo}
&& rm -rf /root/.cache /tmp/*
&& microdnf clean all

Set the PATH environment variable to include Google Chrome

ENV PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:$CHROMEDRIVER_HOME:/opt/google/chrome:$JMETER_HOME/bin"

Set Other PATH environment variables

ENV PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:TestSuites/lib" ENV PYTHONWARNINGS="ignore: Unverified HTTPS request"

Framework : Robot Framework Language : Python 3.11 Selenium Version : Selenium 4.28.1 robotframework Version : 6.1.1 Chrome Driver & Binary Version : ChromeDriver 133.0.6943.98

My Robotframework file for a simple *** Settings *** Documentation This page contains operations which are common in nature

Library SeleniumLibrary

Suite Teardown Close All Browsers

*** Variables *** ${URL} https://www.google.co.in/

*** Test Cases *** Verify Chrome [Tags] WIP Chrome Browser setup

*** Keywords *** Chrome Browser setup ${time}= get time Log to console Current time at TC start is : ${time} Close All Browsers log to console Any previous opened browser if present is closed. ${chrome_options}= Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument test-type Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-extensions Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --headless Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-gpu Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --no-sandbox Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-dev-shm-usage Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --ignore-certificate-errors Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --start-maximized ${EXCLUDES} Create list enable-logging Call Method ${chrome_options} add_experimental_option excludeSwitches ${EXCLUDES}

Problem Description

tried with: *** Settings *** Documentation This page contains operations which are common in nature

Library SeleniumLibrary

Suite Teardown Close All Browsers

*** Variables *** ${URL} https://www.google.co.in/

*** Test Cases *** Verify Chrome [Tags] WIP Chrome Browser setup

*** Keywords *** Chrome Browser setup ${time}= get time Log to console Current time at TC start is : ${time} Close All Browsers log to console Any previous opened browser if present is closed. ${chrome_options}= Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument test-type Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-extensions Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --headless Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-gpu Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --no-sandbox Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --disable-dev-shm-usage Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --ignore-certificate-errors Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument --start-maximized ${user_data}= Set Variable --user-data-dir=/tmp/user-data Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument ${user_data} ${remote_port}= Set Variable --remote-debugging-port=9222 Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument ${remote_port} ${EXCLUDES} Create list enable-logging Call Method ${chrome_options} add_experimental_option excludeSwitches ${EXCLUDES} Create Webdriver Chrome options=${chrome_options} Open Browser about:about Chrome

Both are throwing the following issue: SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: probably user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir #0 0x555604a21bba <unknown> #1 0x5556044bf790 <unknown> #2 0x5556044f8bc5 <unknown> #3 0x5556044f492f <unknown> #4 0x555604545369 <unknown> #5 0x555604544896 <unknown> #6 0x555604536823 <unknown> #7 0x555604502a88 <unknown> #8 0x555604503bf1 <unknown> #9 0x5556049eb15b <unknown> #10 0x5556049ef0e2 <unknown> #11 0x5556049d801c <unknown> #12 0x5556049efcd4 <unknown> #13 0x5556049bc48f <unknown> #14 0x555604a104f8 <unknown> #15 0x555604a106c9 <unknown> #16 0x555604a20a36 <unknown> #17 0x7f33e6f611ca start_thread

Also tried with multiple versions of Selenium, tried downgrading selenium as well. Nothing seem to work.

Summary

Create Webdriver from robotframework fails to instantiate in container environment

Additional Data

Category: Developer Tools
Chrome Channel: Stable
Regression: Yes