# Error spawning Chromium browser!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-spawning-chromium-browser/320373>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-reporting\
**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-spawning-chromium-browser/320373 "2022-12-02T14:22:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ElasticLiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticliver/32/64869_2.png) [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-spawning-chromium-browser/320373/1 "2022-12-02T14:22:14Z")

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Hi, am getting this error when I try to create pdf report on kibana

```auto
Error: Error spawning Chromium browser!\n at Observable._subscribe (/usr/share/kibana/x-pack/plugins/reporting/server/browsers/chromium/driver_factory/index.js:172:24)

```

I have try to follow the [troubleshooting guide](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md#chrome-headless-doesnt-launch-on-unix) running the following comand, but nothing is returned so I imagine that no dependecies are missing.

```auto
ldd /usr/share/kibana/x-pack/plugins/reporting/chromium/headless_shell-linux_x64/headless_shell | grep not

```

Any ideas on how I can solve this? thanks.

Kibana version: 7.17.1  
Firewall and selinux disabled  
SO Redhat 7.8

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**Author:** ![Dzmitry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dzmitry/32/65026_2.png) [@Dzmitry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dzmitry)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-spawning-chromium-browser/320373/2 "2022-12-02T17:33:19Z")

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Hi @ElasticLiver ,

I would go and check permissions for headless\_shell binary manually.

You probably know about [troubleshooting](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.17/reporting-troubleshooting.html) guide. I would spend some time going through it and double check the your kibana.yml

Regards, Dima

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-spawning-chromium-browser/320373/3 "2022-12-30T17:34:07Z")

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