[SOLVED] Watir Chrome Driver "EOFError: end of file reached" Error

Issue

I'm running:

Chrome Version google-chrome-stable/unknown uptodate 27.0.1453.93-r200836

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 (squeeze) 32x

When I try to run:

require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'headless'
headless = Headless.new
headless.start
b = Watir::Browser.new(:chrome)

I get:

EOFError: end of file reached
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:141:in `read_nonblock'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:141:in `rbuf_fill'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:122:in `readuntil'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:132:in `readline'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2563:in `read_status_line'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2552:in `read_new'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1320:in `block in transport_request'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1317:in `catch'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1317:in `transport_request'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1294:in `request'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1287:in `block in request'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:746:in `start'
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1285:in `request'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:83:in `response_for'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:39:in `request'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:40:in `call'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:629:in `raw_execute'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:98:in `create_session'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:68:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/chrome/bridge.rb:29:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:37:in `new'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:37:in `for'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.33.0/lib/selenium/webdriver.rb:67:in `for'
        from /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/watir-webdriver-0.6.4/lib/watir-webdriver/browser.rb:46:in `initialize'
        from (irb):7:in `new'
        from (irb):7
        from /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'

I'm really not sure how to even start troubleshooting this. I'm searching google but not finding any fix that works for me so far. Hopefully someone can help with this.

Solution

So I've come back to this a few months later. It seems that whatever this originally caused this was fixed when I downloaded the latest chromedriver available here:

http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Currently that is version 2.9

Answered By - newUserNameHere