Failing to start after chromium 150 update
Author: chrismckenna726Created Jul 8, 2026Updated Jul 8, 2026
Chromedp version: 0.15.1
After a container image was updated and took chromium 150 as a security update (150.0.7871.46-1~deb12u1 ) - chromedp is failing to start. There does't seem to be any actual error thrown by chromium but we still are failing to launch it. Pinning our container to chromium 147 resolves the issue and os being used as a workaround for now.
These are the chromium logs:
[130:160:0708/042853.582549:ERROR:dbus/bus.cc:405] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[130:160:0708/042853.655020:ERROR:dbus/bus.cc:405] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[130:160:0708/042853.655077:ERROR:dbus/bus.cc:405] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[130:160:0708/042853.655118:ERROR:dbus/bus.cc:405] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[130:160:0708/042853.655127:ERROR:dbus/bus.cc:405] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[130:160:0708/042853.683707:ERROR:dbus/bus.cc:405] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
[0708/042853.700719:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/file_io_posix.cc:145] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory (2)
[0708/042853.700800:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/file/file_io_posix.cc:145] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)And our code lanching it:
opts := []chromedp.ExecAllocatorOption{
chromedp.NoFirstRun,
chromedp.NoDefaultBrowserCheck,
chromedp.DisableGPU,
chromedp.NoSandbox,
// puppeteer default behavior
chromedp.Flag("disable-infobars", true),
chromedp.Flag("excludeSwitches", "enable-automation"),
chromedp.Flag("disable-background-networking", true),
chromedp.Flag("enable-features", "NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess"),
chromedp.Flag("disable-background-timer-throttling", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-breakpad", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-client-side-phishing-detection", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-default-apps", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-dev-shm-usage", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-extensions", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-features", "AudioServiceOutOfProcess,site-per-process,TranslateUI,BlinkGenPropertyTrees"),
chromedp.Flag("disable-hang-monitor", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-ipc-flooding-protection", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-popup-blocking", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-prompt-on-repost", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-renderer-backgrounding", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-sync", true),
chromedp.Flag("force-color-profile", "srgb"),
chromedp.Flag("metrics-recording-only", true),
chromedp.Flag("safebrowsing-disable-auto-update", true),
chromedp.Flag("password-store", "basic"),
chromedp.Flag("use-mock-keychain", true),
// custom args
chromedp.Flag("kiosk", true),
chromedp.Flag("disable-translate", true),
chromedp.Flag("enable-automation", false),
chromedp.Flag("autoplay-policy", "no-user-gesture-required"),
chromedp.Flag("window-position", "0,0"),
chromedp.Flag("window-size", fmt.Sprintf("%d,%d", config.Width, config.Height)),
chromedp.Flag("mute-audio", false),
chromedp.Flag("ignore-certificate-errors", true),
// output
chromedp.Env(fmt.Sprintf("PULSE_SINK=%s", config.PulseSinkName)),
chromedp.Flag("display", config.Display),
}
allocCtx, cancelAlloc := chromedp.NewExecAllocator(context.Background(), opts...)
chromedpContext, cancelCtx := chromedp.NewContext(allocCtx)
if err := chromedp.Run(chromedpContext, chromedp.Navigate("https://google.com")); err != nil {
// We fail here
return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to launch chrome")
}Source: chromedp/chromedp