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

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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: -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+ ls -l /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/environment_setup/
total 19916
Please help me out in fixing this.

Daniil Penkin · Answer

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