WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser

I am trying to launch chrome with an URL, the browser launches and it does nothing after that.

I am seeing the below error after 1 minute:

Unable to open browser with url: 'https://www.google.com' (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.39.562718 (9a2698cba08cf5a471a29d30c8b3e12becabb0e9),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

My configuration:

• Chrome : 66
• ChromeBrowser : 2.39.56

P.S everything works fine in Firefox

Update:

I am able to get through the issue and now I am able to access the chrome with desired url.

Results of trying the provided solutions:

I tried all the settings as provided above but I was unable to resolve the issue

Explanation regarding the issue:

As per my observation DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist is caused when chrome is unable to find its reference in scoped_dirXXXXX folder.

Steps taken to solve the issue

1. I have killed all the chrome processes and chrome driver processes.

2. Added the below code to invoke the chrome

   System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","pathto\\chromedriver.exe");    
   ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
   options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
   WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
   driver.get(url);
   

Using the above steps I was able to resolve the issue.

Thanks for your answers.