ChromeDriver continues to crash on Jenkins Selenium Job: "WebDriverError: Chrome did not start: crashed"

Question

ChromeDriver continues to crash on Jenkins Selenium Job: "WebDriverError: Chrome did not start: crashed"

I am trying to run some automated tests on Jenkins using a protractor that uses selenium and chromedriver .

I also installed xvfb so that we can run these tests using headless . I have the xvfb jenkins plugin installed and it works correctly.

Error

The problem I am facing is that when I start the tests, chrome continues to crash. I get this error:

E/launcher - WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed ... E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199

Customization

Here is the information I have about setting up the system:

Chrome
- Location: /usr/bin/google-chrome
- Version: Chromium 52.0.2743.0
Chrome driver
- Location: {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24
- Version: ChromeDriver 2.24.417424
Selenium
- Location: {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar
- Version: 2.53.1
protractor
- Location: {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/protractor
- Version: 4.0.9
WebDriver Manager
- Location: {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/webdriver-manager
- Version: 10.2.4
Jenkins
- Version: 1.6.17
Xvfb
- Version: Unknown
Node
- Version: 6.7
Java
- Version: java-8-openjdk-amd64

Exit

Here is the console output from Jenkins:

 ... 21:58:07.380 INFO - Launching a standalone Selenium Server 21:58:07.407 INFO - Java: Oracle Corporation 25.111-b14 21:58:07.407 INFO - OS: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic amd64 21:58:07.418 INFO - v2.53.1, with Core v2.53.1. Built from revision a36b8b1 21:58:07.473 INFO - Driver provider org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver registration is skipped: registration capabilities Capabilities [{ensureCleanSession=true, browserName=internet explorer, version=, platform=WINDOWS}] does not match the current platform LINUX 21:58:07.474 INFO - Driver provider org.openqa.selenium.edge.EdgeDriver registration is skipped: registration capabilities Capabilities [{browserName=MicrosoftEdge, version=, platform=WINDOWS}] does not match the current platform LINUX 21:58:07.474 INFO - Driver class not found: com.opera.core.systems.OperaDriver 21:58:07.474 INFO - Driver provider com.opera.core.systems.OperaDriver is not registered 21:58:07.475 INFO - Driver provider org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver registration is skipped: registration capabilities Capabilities [{browserName=safari, version=, platform=MAC}] does not match the current platform LINUX 21:58:07.475 INFO - Driver class not found: org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver 21:58:07.475 INFO - Driver provider org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver is not registered 21:58:07.527 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub 21:58:07.527 INFO - Selenium Server is up and running Current webdriver status: [21:58:08] I/status - selenium standalone version available: 2.53.1 [default] [21:58:08] I/status - chromedriver versions available: 2.22, 2.24 [default] [21:58:08] I/status - geckodriver version available: v0.9.0 [default] [21:58:08] I/status - android-sdk is not present [21:58:08] I/status - appium is not present **** STARTING GUI TESTS **** Running ./node_modules/protractor/bin/protractor conf-server.js [21:58:08] I/local - Starting selenium standalone server... [21:58:08] I/launcher - Running 1 instances of WebDriver [21:58:09] I/local - Selenium standalone server started at http://10.0.0.82:33509/wd/hub [21:59:09] E/launcher - unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed (Driver info: chromedriver=2.24.417424 (c5c5ea873213ee72e3d0929b47482681555340c3),platform=Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 60.17 seconds Build info: version: '2.53.1', revision: 'a36b8b1', time: '2016-06-30 17:37:03' System info: host: 'ip-10-0-0-82', ip: '10.0.0.82', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-47-generic', java.version: '1.8.0_111' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver [21:59:09] E/launcher - WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed (Driver info: chromedriver=2.24.417424 (c5c5ea873213ee72e3d0929b47482681555340c3),platform=Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 60.17 seconds Build info: version: '2.53.1', revision: 'a36b8b1', time: '2016-06-30 17:37:03' System info: host: 'ip-10-0-0-82', ip: '10.0.0.82', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-47-generic', java.version: '1.8.0_111' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver at WebDriverError ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:27:5) at Object.checkLegacyResponse ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:639:15) at parseHttpResponse ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/http/index.js:538:13) at client_.send.then.response ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/http/index.js:472:11) at ManagedPromise.invokeCallback_ ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:1379:14) at TaskQueue.execute_ ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2913:14) at TaskQueue.executeNext_ ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2896:21) at asyncRun ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2820:25) at {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:639:7 at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7) From: Task: WebDriver.createSession() at Function.createSession ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:329:24) at Builder.build ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/builder.js:458:24) at Local.DriverProvider.getNewDriver ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/protractor/built/driverProviders/driverProvider.js:37:33) at Runner.createBrowser ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:198:43) at {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/protractor/built/runner.js:277:30 at _fulfilled ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/q/q.js:834:54) at self.promiseDispatch.done ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/q/q.js:863:30) at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/q/q.js:796:13) at {project_home}/src/js/node_modules/q/q.js:604:44 at runSingle ({project_home}/src/js/node_modules/q/q.js:137:13) [21:59:09] E/launcher - Process exited with error code 199

Transformer Configurator

 exports.config = { seleniumServerJar: './node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar', chromeDriver: './node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_2.24', capabilities: { 'browserName': 'chrome', 'chromeOptions': { binary: '/usr/bin/google-chrome', args: ['--enable-logging','--v=1'], extensions: [] } }, framework: 'custom', frameworkPath: require.resolve('./node_modules/protractor-cucumber-framework'), specs: [ '../../features/gui/active/*.feature' ], onPrepare: function () { require('babel-register')({ presets : ['es2015'] }) } };