[Python] Selenium instantly crashes when running in Docker container

I'm encountering an issue when trying to run a selenium script in a docker container, I've spent quite a while going back and fourth with several AI's and none could fix it, I'm attaching the message I've sent to Claude, any help would be much appreciated.

Im quite a begginer with Docker & Linux so most of the docker file was AI generated, and this is the final version after a lot of AI debugging attempts.

Hi Claude! im working on running an automated web bot that could take actions for me in some site, i want to containerize it with docker so i can run it on AWS Fargate.

this is my python code for the selenium:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


# Docker path's
profilePath = "/root/.mozilla/firefox/4jqf9xwi.default-release"
firefoxPath = "/usr/bin/firefox"
firefoxDriver = "/usr/local/bin/geckodriver"

upvoteButtonPath = "/html/body/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/main/div/ul/li/article/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div/div[1]/button"

options = Options()
options.profile = profilePath
options.binary_location = firefoxPath
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu") # Force software rendering
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") # Avoid sandboxing issues in Docker
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage") # Prevent crashes due to shared memory


service = Service(firefoxDriver)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=service, options=options)

driver.get("https://yad2.co.il/my-ads")
driver.implicitly_wait(5)

upVoteButton = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, upvoteButtonPath)
upVoteButton.click()

input("press Enter to close")

driver.quit()


and here is my Dockerfile:

# Use an official Python runtime as a base image
FROM python:3.9-slim

# Set up environment variables for non-interactive installs
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# Install necessary dependencies in a single RUN command to reduce layers
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
wget \
curl \
unzip \
ca-certificates \
libx11-dev \
libxcomposite-dev \
libxrandr-dev \
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
libgtk-3-0 \
libnss3 \
libasound2 \
fonts-liberation \
libappindicator3-1 \
libxss1 \
libxtst6 \
xdg-utils \
firefox-esr \
&& apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Clean up apt cache to reduce size

# Install GeckoDriver manually
RUN GECKO_VERSION=v0.36.0 && \
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/$GECKO_VERSION/geckodriver-$GECKO_VERSION-linux64.tar.gz && \
tar -xvzf geckodriver-$GECKO_VERSION-linux64.tar.gz && \
mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/ && \
rm geckodriver-$GECKO_VERSION-linux64.tar.gz

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
libgtk-3-0 \
libx11-xcb1 \
libdbus-glib-1-2 \
libxt6 \
libpci3 \
xvfb


# Install Python dependencies
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir selenium

# Copy Firefox profile into the container
COPY 4jqf9xwi.default-release /root/.mozilla/firefox/4jqf9xwi.default-release/

# Set up the working directory
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the Selenium script to the container
COPY script.py /app/

# Default command to run the script
CMD ["python", "script.py"]```


unfortunately when running the container it immediately crashes with this error, and no matter what i do i cant get it fixed

2025-03-04 11:34:22 Traceback (most recent call last):
2025-03-04 11:34:22 File "/app/script.py", line 29, in
2025-03-04 11:34:22 driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=service, options=options)
2025-03-04 11:34:22 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 71, in __init__
2025-03-04 11:34:22 super().__init__(command_executor=executor, options=options)
2025-03-04 11:34:22 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 250, in __init__
2025-03-04 11:34:22 self.start_session(capabilities)
2025-03-04 11:34:22 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 342, in start_session
2025-03-04 11:34:22 response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, caps)["value"]
2025-03-04 11:34:22 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 429, in execute
2025-03-04 11:34:22 self.error_handler.check_response(response)
2025-03-04 11:34:22 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 232, in check_response
2025-03-04 11:34:22 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
2025-03-04 11:34:22 selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status 0
2025-03-04 11:34:22


do you have any insights on what could be the problem?

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