title: How to run selenium chromedriver as root? (not working even with --no-sandbox
body: <p>I'm trying to run chromedriver to create some selenium tests. I followed this <a href="https://christopher.su/2015/selenium-chromedriver-ubuntu/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">manual</a> to install it. I'm trying to run this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from selenium import webdriver
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I call this python script as normal user, it's working. But when I call it as root (it is necessary for me), it's not working. I've tried to follow some advices and I was trying to use several Google chrome options, e.g.:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
  
  options = Options()
  options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
  
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options,
                            service_args=[
                                '--verbose',
                                '--log-path=/home/me/Projects/selenium.log'
                            ]
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it's still not working and here is a part of log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[1,001][INFO]: COMMAND InitSession {
     "capabilities": {
        "alwaysMatch": {
           "browserName": "chrome",
           "goog:chromeOptions": {
              "args": [ "--no-sandbox" ],
              "extensions": [  ]
           },
           "platformName": "any"
        },
        "firstMatch": [ {
  
        } ]
     },
     "desiredCapabilities": {
        "browserName": "chrome",
        "goog:chromeOptions": {
           "args": [ "--no-sandbox" ],
           "extensions": [  ]
        },
        "platform": "ANY",
        "version": ""
     }
  }
  [1,001][INFO]: Populating Preferences file: {
     "alternate_error_pages": {
        "enabled": false
     },
     "autofill": {
        "enabled": false
     },
     "browser": {
        "check_default_browser": false
     },
     "distribution": {
        "import_bookmarks": false,
        "import_history": false,
        "import_search_engine": false,
        "make_chrome_default_for_user": false,
        "show_welcome_page": false,
        "skip_first_run_ui": true
     },
     "dns_prefetching": {
        "enabled": false
     },
     "profile": {
        "content_settings": {
           "pattern_pairs": {
              "https://*,*": {
                 "media-stream": {
                    "audio": "Default",
                    "video": "Default"
                 }
              }
           }
        },
        "default_content_setting_values": {
           "geolocation": 1
        },
        "default_content_settings": {
           "geolocation": 1,
           "mouselock": 1,
           "notifications": 1,
           "popups": 1,
           "ppapi-broker": 1
        },
        "password_manager_enabled": false
     },
     "safebrowsing": {
        "enabled": false
     },
     "search": {
        "suggest_enabled": false
     },
     "translate": {
        "enabled": false
     }
  }
  [1,001][INFO]: Populating Local State file: {
     "background_mode": {
        "enabled": false
     },
     "ssl": {
        "rev_checking": {
           "enabled": false
        }
     }
  }
  [1,002][INFO]: Launching chrome: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --disable-background-networking --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-default-apps --disable-hang-monitor --disable-infobars --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-sync --disable-web-resources --enable-logging --ignore-certificate-errors --load-extension=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.3rN146/internal --log-level=0 --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --password-store=basic --remote-debugging-port=12613 --safebrowsing-disable-auto-update --test-type=webdriver --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.dOwaRR data:,
  [1,002][DEBUG]: DevTools request: http://localhost:12613/json/version
  [8523:8523:0216/145622.514842:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(90)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The strange is, that in the InitSession command there is <code>--no-sandbox</code> argument, but when the Chrome is launched, it's not. The error <code>Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported.</code> shows up instead.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice please?</p>