Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally. (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist)

i’m trying parse(scrape) the website, and this is my code:

<?php
    ini_set('display_errors', 1);
    require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
    
    use FacebookWebDriverRemote{DesiredCapabilities, RemoteWebDriver};
    use FacebookWebDriverWebDriverBy;
    use FacebookWebDriverWebDriverExpectedCondition;
    use FacebookWebDriverExceptionNoSuchElementException;
    use FacebookWebDriverExceptionTimeOutException;
    
    // Set up ChromeDriver options
    $options = new FacebookWebDriverChromeChromeOptions();
    $options->setBinary('/usr/bin/chromium-browser'); // Update with the correct path
    
    $options->addArguments(['--headless']); // Run ChromeDriver in headless mode (optional)
    
    // Start ChromeDriver with the desired capabilities
    $capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::chrome();
    $capabilities->setCapability(FacebookWebDriverChromeChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
    
    // Create a new instance of RemoteWebDriver with increased timeout
   $driver = RemoteWebDriver::create('http://<vps-ip>:9516/', $capabilities, 60000, '/usr/bin/chromedriver');
    
    // Navigate to the desired website
    $driver->get('<url-for-parsing>');
    
    try {
        // Wait until the element is visible
        $wait = new FacebookWebDriverWebDriverWait($driver, 30);
        $element = $wait->until(
            WebDriverExpectedCondition::visibilityOfElementLocated(WebDriverBy::xpath('//div[contains(@data-testid, "profile-snippet-name")]'))
        );
    
        // Extract the text content of the div element
        $divText = $element->getText();
    
        // Print the extracted text
        echo $divText;
    } catch (NoSuchElementException $e) {
        echo "Element not found: " . $e->getMessage();
    } catch (TimeOutException $e) {
        echo "Timed out waiting for element: " . $e->getMessage();
    } finally {
        // Quit the driver
        $driver->quit();
    }
?>

and i’m getting this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught FacebookWebDriverExceptionUnknownServerException: unknown error: 
Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally. (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't
exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/chromium-browser is no longer 
running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.) (Driver info: 
chromedriver=114.0.5735.90 (386bc09e8f4f2e025eddae123f36f6263096ae49-refs/branch-
heads/5735@{#1052}),platform=Linux 5.15.0-75-generic x86_64) in 
/home/k/user/user.domain/public_html/app/Http/Controllers/getName/vendor/facebook/webdriver/
lib/Exception/WebDriverException.php:121 Stack trace: #0 
/home/kuser/user.domain/public_html/app/Http/Controllers/getName/vendor/facebook/webdriver/l
ib/Remote/HttpCommandExecutor.php(353): 
FacebookWebDriverExceptionWebDriverException::throwException(13, 'unknown error: ...', 
Array) #1 
/home/k/user/user.domain/public_html/app/Http/Controllers/getName/vendor/facebook/webdriver/
lib/Remote/RemoteWebDriver.php(100): FacebookWebDriverRemoteHttpCommandExecutor-
>execute(Object(FacebookWebDriverRemoteWebDriverCommand)) #2 
/home/k/user/user.domain/public_html/app/Http/Controllers/getName/index.php(22): 
FacebookWebDriverRemoteRemoteWebDriver::create('http://<vps-ip>', Array, 60000, 
'/usr/bin/chrome...') #3 {main} thrown in 
/home/k/user/user.domain/public_html/app/Http/Controllers/getName/vendor/facebook/webdriver/
lib/Exception/WebDriverException.php on line 121

Note

  • i tried this code on my pc(localhost) it worked, but when i try it on hosting it didn’t work and i got VPS (ubuntu) server and I installed chromium(also google-chrome) browser and chromedriver. I’ m trying to use it but i’m getting this error.

  • All paths (like: /usr/bin/chromedriver) are given correctly

  • the codes that i showed are not localted in vpsm they are located in hosting

  • it’s the 1st time i’m using chromedriver in php, so please answer detailed

what am i getting when i run chromedriver

root@**:~# chromedriver --port=9516 --whitelisted-ips=""
Starting ChromeDriver 114.0.5735.90 (386bc09e8f4f2e025eddae123f36f6263096ae49-refs/branch-heads/5735@{#1052}) on port 9516
All remote connections are allowed. Use an allowlist instead!
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.