Currently, I am facing challenges while attempting to set up a Firefox driver with Selenium. The process of creating the driver seems to be causing some obstacles.
My initial attempt looks like this:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
Upon execution, a warning window pops up indicating: "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."
This is followed by an error being displayed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 162, in __init__
keep_alive=True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 154, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 243, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 312, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status: 1
I have experimented with several solutions, such as:
- Including the geckodriver in the PATH
- Manually typing the path name (
)driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile="default") - Specifying the profile path (as suggested on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/selenium-users/Q8CpIFiZcBk)
- Creating a new Firefox profile and trying that path instead
The system configuration involves Python 3.6.4 and Firefox 58.0.1. Edit: It is worth mentioning that although there are similar inquiries, most of them are related to tor or yield a different outcome.
Furthermore, my operating system is Debian Linux