selenium chromedriver - Not able to launch chrome in protractor

Question

While launching conf.js file in protractor its giving below error :

ERROR [OsProcess.checkForError] - org.apache.commons.exec.ExecuteException: Execution failed (Exit value: -559038737. Caused by java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/webdriver-manager/selenium/chromedriver_87.0.4280.88" (in directory "."): error=86, Bad CPU type in executable)

Answer 1

https://github.com/angular/webdriver-manager/issues/476

Fix will be available soon this weekend. but you will get a workaround by doing this.

As I badly needed to get unblocked - here is a hacky workaround for anyone in similar situation (only for x86_64 macOS). In node_modules/webdriver-manager/built/lib/files/file_manager.js update fileUrl.url around 166:

add below line

fileUrl.url = fileUrl.url.replace(/_m1/, '')