[🐛 Bug]: Getting SessionNotCreatedException when the Date of the Windows is in Arabic language format

[MahmoudElSharkawy]

What happened?

When the Date of the windows is in Arabic language format, the session does not start and I get
org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.

I get this when I debug the issue:

How can we reproduce the issue?

public class TestDataLanguage {
// Just switch the language of the date to Arabic and run this simple code with any browser
    @Test
    public void testDataLanguage() {
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
    }
}

Relevant log output

org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure. 

	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:536)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:232)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:161)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chromium.ChromiumDriver.<init>(ChromiumDriver.java:114)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:88)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:83)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:51)
	at TestDataLanguage.testDataLanguage(TestDataLanguage.java:8)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:139)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeMethod(TestInvoker.java:677)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethod(TestInvoker.java:221)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.MethodRunner.runInSequence(MethodRunner.java:50)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker$MethodInvocationAgent.invoke(TestInvoker.java:962)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethods(TestInvoker.java:194)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:148)
	at org.testng.internal.invokers.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:128)
	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511)
	at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:806)
	at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:601)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:433)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:427)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:387)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:330)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
	at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:95)
	at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1256)
	at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1176)
	at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1099)
	at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1067)
	at com.intellij.rt.testng.IDEARemoteTestNG.run(IDEARemoteTestNG.java:65)
	at com.intellij.rt.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:105)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Driver server process died prematurely.
Build info: version: '4.20.0', revision: '866c76ca80'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 11', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '17.0.4.1'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.start(DriverService.java:246)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:117)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:518)
	... 34 more


===============================================
Default Suite
Total tests run: 1, Passes: 0, Failures: 1, Skips: 0
===============================================


Process finished with exit code 0

Operating System

Windows

Selenium version

4.20

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

All Browsers

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Any Driver

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

[github-actions]

@MahmoudElSharkawy, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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Thank you!

[Delta456]

I think this issue can be closed as #13934 fixes and SeleniumHQ/seleniumhq.github.io#1833 documents the correct usage

[pujagani]

Thank you! Yes, it can be closed.