How to unfreeze debugger while using Selenium ChromeDriver?

Tested on versions as:

Java 11.0.9 (Zulu)
Selenium-chrome-driver: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.4.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.6.0, 3.7.0, 3.7.1 ... up to 3.141.59, ... 4.9.0.
WebDriverManager 3.8.1 & 3.6.2.

I'm working with the following snippet of the code as provided below:

Some part of code I skipped for representing better view.

import com.mongodb.client.model.IndexOptions;
import com.mongodb.client.model.Indexes;
import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;
import org.bson.Document;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import project.DatabaseConnections;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import static com.mongodb.client.model.Filters.*;

public class GBFeedReader implements Runnable {

    public void run() {
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.addArguments("--headless");
        options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
        options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
        WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

        ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options); // the debugger is freezing after this specific line 
        driver.get("https://gearbest.net");
        WebElement ulElement = driver
                .findElement(By
                        .xpath("/html/body/div[12]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/ul/li[2]"));
        List<WebElement> liElements = ulElement.findElements(By.tagName("div"));

            // class of the whole element
            liElements.forEach(liElement -> {
                //String str = "";
               /* Element aElement = liElement.select("a").first(); // header of element
                String url = aElement.attr("href");
                String title = aElement.attr("title"); // title of element
                Element spanElement = liElement.select("span").first();
                String price = spanElement.attr("data-mall-price"); // price of element*/
                ...
             });
         }
    }

My POM file is as below:

POM file

What I have already tried:

I have tried to comment fully block of google-chrome options:

 options.addArguments("--headless");
 options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
 options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");

and re-debugg this code.

I have tried to use versions in POM for Maven dependency as:

 <dependency>
     <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
     <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
     <version>3.141.59</version>
 </dependency>

and:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
        <version>4.9.0</version>
    </dependency>

and still the debugger is freezing.

I have tried to go deeply inside business logic of the class ChromeDriver and see how it goes under the hood, so what I see is:

in DriverService.class the debugger shows as:

    public DS build() {
        if (this.port == 0) {
            this.port = PortProber.findFreePort();
        }

        if (this.exe == null) {
            this.exe = this.findDefaultExecutable();
        }

        ImmutableList<String> args = this.createArgs(); // args: size = 1
        return this.createDriverService(this.exe, this.port, args, this.environment); // port: 48393 exe: "C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\webdriver\chromedriver\win32\114.0.5735.90\chromedriver.exe"
    }

I have checked similar questions as, for instance:

Chrome 'paused in debugger' issue
Paused in debugger in chrome?

but it doesn't look as my use case or I don't fully understand how it helps me here.

At the same time, my output in the console is as below:

"C:\Program Files\Java\zulu11.43.55-ca-jdk11.0.9.1-win_x64\bin\java.exe" -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=127.0.0.1:62518,suspend=y,server=n -javaagent:C:\Users\invzbl3\AppData\Local\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2022.3\captureAgent\debugger-agent.jar -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "E:\IdeaProject\WGIbot\target\classes;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\telegram\telegrambots\4.2\telegrambots-4.2.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\telegram\telegrambots-meta\4.2\telegrambots-meta-4.2.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\google\inject\guice\4.2.2\guice-4.2.2.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\javax\inject\javax.inject\1\javax.inject-1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\aopalliance\aopalliance\1.0\aopalliance-1.0.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\jackson\core\jackson-annotations\2.9.0\jackson-annotations-2.9.0.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\jackson\jaxrs\jackson-jaxrs-json-provider\2.9.8\jackson-jaxrs-json-provider-2.9.8.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\jackson\jaxrs\jackson-jaxrs-base\2.9.8\jackson-jaxrs-base-2.9.8.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\jackson\module\jackson-module-jaxb-annotations\2.9.8\jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.9.8.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\jackson\core\jackson-databind\2.9.8\jackson-databind-2.9.8.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\com\fasterxml\jackson\core\jackson-core\2.9.8\jackson-core-2.9.8.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\media\jersey-media-json-jackson\2.25.1\jersey-media-json-jackson-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\core\jersey-common\2.25.1\jersey-common-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\bundles\repackaged\jersey-guava\2.25.1\jersey-guava-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\hk2\osgi-resource-locator\1.0.1\osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\ext\jersey-entity-filtering\2.25.1\jersey-entity-filtering-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\containers\jersey-container-grizzly2-http\2.25.1\jersey-container-grizzly2-http-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\hk2\external\javax.inject\2.5.0-b32\javax.inject-2.5.0-b32.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\grizzly\grizzly-http-server\2.3.28\grizzly-http-server-2.3.28.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\grizzly\grizzly-http\2.3.28\grizzly-http-2.3.28.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\grizzly\grizzly-framework\2.3.28\grizzly-framework-2.3.28.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\javax\ws\rs\javax.ws.rs-api\2.0.1\javax.ws.rs-api-2.0.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\core\jersey-server\2.25.1\jersey-server-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\core\jersey-client\2.25.1\jersey-client-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\jersey\media\jersey-media-jaxb\2.25.1\jersey-media-jaxb-2.25.1.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\javax\annotation\javax.annotation-api\1.2\javax.annotation-api-1.2.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\hk2\hk2-api\2.5.0-b32\hk2-api-2.5.0-b32.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\hk2\hk2-utils\2.5.0-b32\hk2-utils-2.5.0-b32.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\hk2\external\aopalliance-repackaged\2.5.0-b32\aopalliance-repackaged-2.5.0-b32.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\glassfish\hk2\hk2-locator\2.5.0-b32\hk2-locator-2.5.0-b32.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\javassist\javassist\3.20.0-GA\javassist-3.20.0-GA.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\javax\validation\validation-api\1.1.0.Final\validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\json\json\20180813\json-20180813.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpclient\4.5.3\httpclient-4.5.3.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpcore\4.4.6\httpcore-4.4.6.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\commons-logging\commons-logging\1.2\commons-logging-1.2.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\commons-codec\commons-codec\1.9\commons-codec-1.9.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpmime\4.5.3\httpmime-4.5.3.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\commons-io\commons-io\2.5\commons-io-2.5.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-java\3.141.59\selenium-java-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-api\3.141.59\selenium-api-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-chrome-driver\3.141.59\selenium-chrome-driver-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-edge-driver\3.141.59\selenium-edge-driver-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-firefox-driver\3.141.59\selenium-firefox-driver-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-ie-driver\3.141.59\selenium-ie-driver-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-opera-driver\3.141.59\selenium-opera-driver-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\org\seleniumhq\selenium\selenium-remote-driver\3.141.59\selenium-remote-driver-3.141.59.jar;C:\Users\i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Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2.3\lib\idea_rt.jar" project.Main
Connected to the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:62518', transport: 'socket'
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.google.inject.internal.cglib.core.$ReflectUtils$1 (file:/C:/Users/invzbl3/.m2/repository/com/google/inject/guice/4.2.2/guice-4.2.2.jar) to method java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String,byte[],int,int,java.security.ProtectionDomain)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.google.inject.internal.cglib.core.$ReflectUtils$1
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Starting ChromeDriver 114.0.5735.90 (386bc09e8f4f2e025eddae123f36f6263096ae49-refs/branch-heads/5735@{#1052}) on port 33800
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
Starting ChromeDriver 114.0.5735.90 (386bc09e8f4f2e025eddae123f36f6263096ae49-refs/branch-heads/5735@{#1052}) on port 12359
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.

Personally, I'm still looking for any ideas how to solve it, if I find something as a solution, I'll update this question with own results & attempts, but, as for now, the problem still exists.

Thank you in advance for any helpful recommendations or thoughts.

I'll apreciate it, colleagues :)

Solution

Option #1:

The question was resolved thanks to the colleague's recommendation in the following manner:

public void run() {
    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

    WebDriverManager.chromedriver().browserVersion("118.0.5993.118").setup();

// after changing version from 114.0.5735.90 (in the C:\Users\invzbl3\.m2\repository\webdriver\chromedriver\win32 folder)

to 118.0.5993.118 manually.

    options.addArguments("--headless");
    options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
    options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
    WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

    ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
    driver.get("https://gearbest.net");
    WebElement ulElement = driver
            .findElement(By
                    .xpath("/html/body/div[12]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/ul/li[2]"));
    List<WebElement> liElements = ulElement.findElements(By.tagName("div"));

    // class of the whole element
    liElements.forEach(liElement -> {
        //String str = "";
           /* Element aElement = liElement.select("a").first(); // header of element
            String url = aElement.attr("href");
            String title = aElement.attr("title"); // title of element
            Element spanElement = liElement.select("span").first();
            String price = spanElement.attr("data-mall-price"); // price of element*/
            ...            
        });
    }
}

with dependency accordingly as:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
    <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
    <version>5.6.0</version>
</dependency>

versions as: 3.8.1 & 5.3.2 are also suitable per provided requirements.

To be noticed:

It works without any problem, but I don't have this specific version in the folder while setupping it manually, for some reason:

So, if someone finds a way how to setup it manually to get updated version of the Chromedriver in the folder directly, as well, it would be great.

Option #2:

Check the version of the dependency & downgrade it to lower one, as for instance: from 4.x.x to 3.x.x.

Instead of:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.x.x</version>
    </dependency>

to:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>3.x.x</version>
    </dependency>

UPD:

To clarify:

I suppose it happens due to differences in internal instructions of different dependency versions, but what exactly it hards to say, at the current moment.