title: Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed
body: <p>Recently I switched computers and since then I can't launch chrome with selenium. I've also tried Firefox but the browser instance just doesn't launch. </p>
  
  <pre><code>from selenium import webdriver
  
  d = webdriver.Chrome('/home/PycharmProjects/chromedriver')
  
  d.get('https://www.google.nl/')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
    (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
    (The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600233, platform=Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i have the latest chrome version and chromedriver installed</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  After trying @b0sss solution i am getting the following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
    (chrome not reachable)
    (The process started from chrome location /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome is no longer running, so chromedriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.43.600233 (523efee95e3d68b8719b3a1c83051aa63aa6b10d),platform=Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64)
  </code></pre>