How to solve Process finished with exit code 1 error in Java Selenium?

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Java

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Final\netty-transport-native-unix-common-4.1.58.Final.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\netty\netty-transport\4.1.58.Final\netty-transport- 4.1.58.Final.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\netty\netty-resolver\4.1.58.Final\netty-resolver-4.1.58.Final.jar;C:\Users \alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-api\1.0.0\opentelemetry-api-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-context\ 1.0.0\opentelemetry-context-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-exporter-logging\1.0.0\opentelemetry-exporter-logging-1.0.0. jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-sdk-metrics\1.0.0-alpha\opentelemetry-sdk-metrics-1.0.0-alpha.jar;C:C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\ opentelemetry\opentelemetry-sdk-extension-autoconfigure\1.0.0-alpha\opentelemetry-sdk-extension-autoconfigure-1.0.0-alpha.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry- sdk-trace\1.0.0\opentelemetry-sdk-trace-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-api-metrics\1.0.0-alpha\opentelemetry- api-metrics-1.0.0-alpha.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-sdk\1.0.0\opentelemetry-sdk-1.0.0.jar;C:\Users \alexi\.m2\repository\io\opentelemetry\opentelemetry-semconv\1.0.0-alpha\opentelemetry-semconv-1.0.0-alpha.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\net\bytebuddy\ byte-buddy\1.10.19\byte-buddy-1.10.19.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\apache\commons\commons-exec\1.3\commons-exec-1.3.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\asynchttpclient\async-http-client\2.12.2\ async-http-client-2.12.2.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\asynchttpclient\async-http-client-netty-utils\2.12.2\async-http-client-netty- utils-2.12.2.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\netty\netty-codec-socks\4.1.53.Final\netty-codec-socks-4.1.53.Final.jar; C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\io\netty\netty-handler-proxy\4.1.53.Final\netty-handler-proxy-4.1.53.Final.jar;C:\Users\alexi\. m2\repository\io\netty\netty-transport-native-epoll\4.1.53.Final\netty-transport-native-epoll-4.1.53.Final-linux-x86_64.jar;C:\Users\alexi\. m2\repository\io\netty\netty-transport-native-kqueue\4.1.53.Final\netty-transport-native-kqueue-4.1.53.Final-osx-x86_64.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\reactivestreams\reactive-streams\1.0.3\reactive-streams-1.0.3.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\com\typesafe\netty\netty-reactive-streams\ 2.0.4\netty-reactive-streams-2.0.4.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\slf4j\slf4j-api\1.7.30\slf4j-api-1.7.30.jar; C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\com\sun\activation\jakarta.activation\1.2.2\jakarta.activation-1.2.2.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\ seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-safari-driver\4.0.0-beta-2\selenium-safari-driver-4.0.0-beta-2.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\ selenium\selenium-support\4.0.0-beta-2\selenium-support-4.0.0-beta-2.jar MainC:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\ selenium\selenium-safari-driver\4.0.0-beta-2\selenium-safari-driver-4.0.0-beta-2.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\ selenium-support\4.0.0-beta-2\selenium-support-4.0.0-beta-2.jar MainC:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\ selenium\selenium-safari-driver\4.0.0-beta-2\selenium-safari-driver-4.0.0-beta-2.jar;C:\Users\alexi\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\ selenium-support\4.0.0-beta-2\selenium-support-4.0.0-beta-2.jar Main
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable must exist: c:\tools\chromedriver
at org.openqa.selenium.internal.Require$FileStateChecker.isFile(Require.java:315)
at org.openqa. selenium.remote.service.DriverService.checkExecutable(DriverService.java:154)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:149)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000 (ChromeDriverService.java:37)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:222)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:419 )
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService(ChromeDriverService.java:119)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:41)
at Main.main(Main.java:9)

Process finished with exit code 1

Answer 1

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable must exist: c:\tools\chromedriver

Check if the chromedriver driver for the Chrome browser is on the path c:\tools\chromedriver
If not, then download
It would also be nice to provide the source code or see if your code contains:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
            "c:\\tools\\chromedriver");