WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 3221225477

Question

I'm new to Robot Framewerk and I am using it with RIDE and I followed some tutorials and that went well till today.

Yesterday everything worked fine and I changed nothing after yesterday. Now I am getting this error when I execute my tests in RIDE:

WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 3221225477

I'm trying to test on Chrome. Check screenshot for other versions of selenium etc.

Using:

Chrome Versie 83.0.4103.61 (Officiële build) (64-bits)
ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39

Environment:

Answer 1

This error message...

WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 3221225477

...implies that the ChromeDriver unexpectedly exited.

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Status code: 3221225477

As per the documentation in Program exit codes Status Code 3221225477 implies Access violation which indicates that the executed program has terminated abnormally or crashed.

As you are using ChromeDriver / Chrome combination there can be numerous reason for this error. A couple of them are as follows:

• Due to incorrect ChromeDriver path.

You can find a detailed discussion in WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127

• Due to ChromeDriver / Chrome version mismatch.

You can find a detailed discussion in WebDriverException: Message: Service /content/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -6 with ChromeDriver Google Colab and Selenium