I am using Python 2.7.3, selenium 2.48.0 on Raspbian OS (headless device). Version of Iceweasel/Firefox is 38.4.
I import selenium like this:
from selenium import webdriver
Then I define the driver:
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
When I run this code it runs for about 15 seconds and gives out this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Dbfull3.py", line 114, in <module>
data=getdata()
File "Dbfull3.py", line 17, in getdata
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 77, in __init__
self.binary, timeout),
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 49, in __init__
self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 68, in launch_browser
self._wait_until_connectable()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 103, in _wait_until_connectable
raise WebDriverException("Can't load the profile. Profile "
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: %s If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
When researching this error I found similar cases from StackOverflowand other places, but many those are from Windows environment or errors come from different packages. One suggested solution was to use different version of Firefox/Iceweasel but I could not find other versions available for my OS.
I have also tried executing my code as root but the result is same.
Desipite the error, every time execute this command new profile gets created to /tmp:
user@host ~/bin $ ls -l /tmp/tmpiV4R0H/
total 11952
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 183494 Dec 10 18:42 blocklist.xml
drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:43 bookmarkbackups
drwx------ 4 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 cache2
-rw------- 1 user user 65536 Dec 10 18:43 cert8.db
-rw------- 1 user user 188 Dec 10 18:42 compatibility.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 229376 Dec 10 18:42 content-prefs.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 524288 Dec 10 18:43 cookies.sqlite
-rw------- 1 user user 4182 Dec 10 18:43 directoryLinks.json
drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 extensions
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 259 Dec 10 18:42 extensions.ini
-rw------- 1 user user 2154 Dec 10 18:43 extensions.json
drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 gmp
-rw------- 1 user user 16384 Dec 10 18:42 key3.db
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 16 Dec 10 18:42 lock -> 127.0.1.1:+29581
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 3319 Dec 10 18:43 mimeTypes.rdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 65536 Dec 10 18:42 permissions.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 10485760 Dec 10 18:43 places.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 32768 Dec 10 18:42 places.sqlite-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 557496 Dec 10 18:43 places.sqlite-wal
-rw------- 1 user user 5020 Dec 10 18:43 prefs.js
-rw------- 1 user user 16384 Dec 10 18:42 secmod.db
-rw------- 1 user user 53 Dec 10 18:43 sessionCheckpoints.json
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 startupCache
drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:43 userumbnails
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 3504 Dec 10 18:42 user.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 webapps
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Dec 10 18:42 x86
What could I do to get rid of this error?
EDIT: I have also set up a virtual display to allow Firefox launch. This code is executed before the browser.
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0, size=(640, 480))
display.start()
I think this part is OK because before adding these lines Selenium gave error about lack of display. With this code Firefox gets started at least enough that it creates some profile files.
Also Firefox starts when I do:
Xvfb :99
export DISPLAY=:99
firefox
(Firefox just sits there, but does not give errors.)
EDIT2: I also tried using Chromium instead of Firefox but that did not work because their webdriver for Selenium does not work with Raspbian.
