IllegalAccessError thrown by new ChromeDriver() on OSX (Java)

Question

Getting this under Eclipse straight out of the gate.

Code:

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver" ,  "/path/to/selenium/chromedriver");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

Throws Exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method com.google.common.util.concurrent.SimpleTimeLimiter.<init>(Ljava/util/concurrent/ExecutorService;)V from class org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker
    at org.openqa.selenium.net.UrlChecker.<init>(UrlChecker.java:67)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.waitUntilAvailable(DriverService.java:190)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:181)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:78)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:637)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:250)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:236)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:137)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:184)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:171)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:124)

OSX 10.12 Selenium 3.4 ChromeDriver 2.31

So, does the browser start? Are you sure error is thrown at line `WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();` ? Does the user have right permissions on `/path/to/selenium/chromedriver` directory? — Ivan Pronin, Aug 11 '17 at 21:31
@IvanPronin (a) Of course not; (b) see the stack trace for proof; (c) user permissions are irrelevant: see the Javadoc of `IllegalAccessError`. — user207421, Aug 12 '17 at 00:35

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '17 at 09:24

19

Setting this back to 22.0 helped for me.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
        <version>22.0</version>
    </dependency>

answered Aug 14 '17 at 09:24

Walter

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Thanks for this, @Walter. This will likely break the Firefox driver, but I will certainly try and report back. – Igor Urisman Aug 14 '17 at 20:53
Walter where did you set this? In pom.xml? – Hashmatullah Noorzai Dec 10 '19 at 17:54

maharr · Answer 2 · 2017-09-13T09:17:16.657

5

Setting this back to 22.0 helped for me.

Version 22.0 didn't fix the problem for me, but 19.0 did.

compile group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '19.0'

edited Sep 13 '17 at 09:17

answered Sep 13 '17 at 09:11

maharr

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 05 '18 at 03:35

the main problem is you have a jar conflict.

selenium has compile dependency on guava, you can find this at: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-chrome-driver/3.141.0

if you project has another version of guava, it may use wrong guava version.

to exclude duplicate dependency in maven, you can add right guava version explicitly, in this case:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.guava/guava -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
    <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
    <version>25.0-jre</version>
</dependency>

IllegalAccessError thrown by new ChromeDriver() on OSX (Java)

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