BUG: geckodriver "local variable 'driver' referenced before assignment"

[icepaule]

Hello josh,

could you help me with below error messages? Actually the came up with a fresh install:
Thanks a lot for the great tool and your help.

Thx
Marcus

_`2023-11-12:13:21:52,830 INFO geckodriver: assumed torsocks proxy found - tcp://127.0.0.1:9050
2023-11-12:13:21:52,830 INFO geckodriver: configuring proxy settings
2023-11-12:13:21:52,831 INFO geckodriver: starting webdriver
2023-11-12:13:24:07,35 ERROR geckodriver: error: Message: Failed to read marionette port

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ransomwatch/geckodrive.py", line 44, in main
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 67, in init
super().init(command_executor=executor, options=options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 205, in init
self.start_session(capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 289, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, caps)["value"]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 344, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 229, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: Failed to read marionette port

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ransomwatch/geckodrive.py", line 78, in main
driver.quit()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'driver' referenced before assignment

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ransomwatch/./ransomwatch.py", line 209, in
scraper()
File "/opt/ransomwatch/./ransomwatch.py", line 136, in scraper
response = geckodrive.main(host['slug'])
File "/opt/ransomwatch/geckodrive.py", line 81, in main
if driver:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'driver' referenced before assignment
root@intmon2:/opt/ransomwatch#
`_

[joshhighet]

hi, thanks for raising it. I'm unable to reproduce this - could you let me know how you installed geckodriver and what OS you're running?

perhaps this ? RedSiege/EyeWitness#604 (comment)

[icepaule]

Sure, my "history" part below, basically I sneeked your docker config:
wget https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest
tar -xvzf geckodriver-v0.33.0-linux32.tar.gz
mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin

As this was just not the solution, I added:
apt install firefox

But still the same issue.
I'm running on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.

Thx so much for your help.

[icepaule]

Just fixed it myself. ;-)

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa -y
• sudo apt update
• sudo apt install firefox

and now it works smoothly. ;-)

Thx for helping.