WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions

[Ameet Kumar Pradhan]

I am trying to create a CI/CD pipeline for my robot framework project. However, I am facing the below issue:

"WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions."

This is my bitbucket-pipelines.yml file:

image: python:3.7.2

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script:
          - export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/custom_library/"
          - export PATH="$PATH:/opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/environment_setup/"
          - pip install -r requirements.txt
          - robot --exclude NORUN test_suite-site  #run test-suite for site
          - echo "Code Execution is Complete"   #notify code execution

I ran the below command to check permissions:

ls -l /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/environment_setup/

The results for this were as below:

+ ls -l /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/environment_setup/
total 19916
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 11606728 Nov  7 19:11 chromedriver
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root  8835072 Nov  7 19:11 chromedriver.exe

Please help me out in fixing this.

[Daniil Penkin]

Hello @Ameet Kumar Pradhan,

Thanks for reaching out.

I can’t say if this is the best way to configure a pipeline for robot framework project, but I think the root cause of the error you faced is that chromedriver binary lacks execution bit in the permissions. That is, it should be at least r-x (don’t think it needs to be writable). However I can’t say why it ended up in this state.

So just to try it out, try running

chmod +x /path/to/chromedriver

but this is definitely a workaround.

Maybe there’s a docker image with robot framework preinstalled? In this case you might want to switch to it?

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Daniil