Using selenium+chromedriver crawler under Linux to report an error

mistake:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.34.522913 (36222509aa6e819815938cbf2709b4849735537c),platform=Linux 4.10.0-42-generic x86_64)

Solution:

Start the Display before start the Chrome. 

First execute the following two installation commands (take ubuntu as an example):

 

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1. pip install pyvirtualdisplay  
2. sudo apt-get install xvfb  

Then add the following code:

 

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1. from pyvirtualdisplay import Display  
2. display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 800))    
3. display.start()  
4. driver = webdriver.Chrome()