RSelenium error in Ubuntu server

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Hi,

I have installed the RSelenium package in my Ubuntu server hosted in AWS. However whenever I try to access any webpage with it I get error saying "DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist".

Below is the complete message:

> library(RSelenium)
> rD = rsDriver()
checking Selenium Server versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
checking chromedriver versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
checking geckodriver versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
checking phantomjs versions:
BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD
BEGIN: DOWNLOAD
BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD
[1] "Connecting to remote server"

Selenium message:unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.40.565383 (76257d1ab79276b2d53ee976b2c3e3b9f335cde7),platform=Linux 4.4.0-128-generic x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 60.16 seconds
Build info: version: '3.12.0', revision: '7c6e0b3', time: '2018-05-08T15:15:08.936Z'
System info: host: 'ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-blr1-01', ip: '127.0.1.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-128-generic', java.version: '9-internal'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown

Could not open chrome browser.
Client error message:
	 Summary: UnknownError
 	 Detail: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.
	 Further Details: run errorDetails method
Check server log for further details.

And Session-info :

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.6.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.6.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] RSelenium_1.7.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.12.17     XML_3.99-0       binman_0.1.0     assertthat_0.2.0
 [5] rappdirs_0.3.1   bitops_1.0-6     R6_2.2.2         jsonlite_1.5    
 [9] semver_0.2.0     httr_1.3.1       curl_3.2         xml2_1.2.0      
[13] subprocess_0.8.2 tools_3.4.4      wdman_0.2.2      yaml_2.1.19     
[17] compiler_3.4.4   caTools_1.17.1   openssl_1.0.1   

I have searched over net for solution (e.g. http://withr.me/set-up-selenium-headless-on-ubuntu-16.04/) however couldnt succeed.

Can someone help me to get it running in Ubuntu server.

However running RSelenium in local Laptop is working completely fine.

Appreciate your insightful help.

[beedawg1985]

I'm experiencing this issue too. I can only run the remote server in headless mode '--headless'.