Waiting for chrome to became available

[bkopin-bfg]

I got following error:
`Using /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome
Waiting for chrome to became available
events.js:160
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: spawn /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome ENOENT
at exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:359:16)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)`

chrome version 60.0.3112.113

[Szpadel]

can you maybe check if reverting changes from #1 solves this issue?

[mikefogg]

@Szpadel I'm getting the same error now, is there any info you need that would help?

[firvida]

I'm getting this error in Manjaro

[jacobkauffmann]

For me, it stops at "Waiting for chrome to became available". This is on MacOS Monterey with Chrome 107.0.5304.87.
It stopped working a few days ago. I can see that Chrome is starting in the process manager. Port 9222 stays closed, though. If I manually start a Chrome instance with remote debugging, the port opens, but the script stays stuck at "Waiting for..."

As a workaround, it works for some time after restarting the computer. I have no idea why it stops working at some point.

Edit: not true, restarting does not fix the problem. I also tried Canary and Chromium, both don't work.
However, I get a line "Chrome port open!" after every 15 minutes or so.

[winterstein]

I'm also seeing this issue -- on Linux Mint with up-to-date Chrome.

[firvida]

In my case the reason was that chrome binds to the IPv6 interface, while the client is trying to connect to "localhost" using the IPv4 interface. The solution is to remove "localhost" from resolving IPv6.

In /etc/hosts

Standard host addresses

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
127.0.0.1 localhost