I am trying to start the Selenium server node on Oracle Linux 8.9.

Starting the hub works fine.

When I try to start the node, I get the error:

Exception in thread “Thread-0” java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.Node.getStatus()” because “this.node” is null

Please note that the web drivers are in the path.

Selenium server is version 4.21.0.

Here is a more thorough stack trace.

at org.openqa.selenium.grid.config.ClassCreation.callCreateMethod(ClassCreation.java:51)
at org.openqa.selenium.grid.config.MemoizedConfig.lambda$getClass$4(MemoizedConfig.java:104)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1740)
at org.openqa.selenium.grid.config.MemoizedConfig.getClass(MemoizedConfig.java:99)
… 14 more
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.grid.config.ConfigException: No drivers have been configured or have been found on PATH
at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.NodeOptions.addDetectedDrivers(NodeOptions.java:531)
at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.config.NodeOptions.getSessionFactories(NodeOptions.java:247)
at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.LocalNodeFactory.create(LocalNodeFactory.java:79)
… 22 more
Exception in thread “Thread-0” java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.Node.getStatus()” because “this.node” is null
at org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.httpd.NodeServer.lambda$new$0(NodeServer.java:78)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)

Here is the command:
java -jar ./software/selenium/server/selenium-server-4.21.0.jar node –port 5555
–selenium-manager true –max-sessions 1