Error: Failed to start browser firefox-headless

[Alibibo]

Hey Team,

I’m trying to run the OWASP ZAP zap-full-scan.py with additional ajax Spider on a Standard Linux vm with Oracle Linux 8 in a docker container.

docker run -d --rm --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -v "$OWASP_REPORT_PATH":/zap/wrk/:rw -t zap2docker-stable:2.12.0 zap-full-scan.py -t "$OWASP_TARGET" -z "-config api.key=123" -j -g gen.conf -r "$OWASP_REPORT_FILE_NAME" --hook hooks.py

Running the script locally does not cause any problem. However, when trying to run the ajax spider on the Linux Server it stops after a few seconds with the error message that Firefox-headless cannot be started.

WARN  org.zaproxy.zap.extension.spiderAjax.SpiderThread - Failed to start browser firefox-headless

com.google.inject.ProvisionException: Unable to provision, see the following errors:

 

1) [Guice/ErrorInCustomProvider]: WebDriverException: Process unexpectedly closed with status 1

Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'

System info: host: '49df267a603f', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '5.4.17-2102.205.7.3.el8uek.x86_64', java.version: '11.0.18'

Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver

remote stacktrace:

  at ConfigurationModule.configure(ConfigurationModule.java:47)

      \_ installed by: CoreModule -> ConfigurationModule

  at CrawlerContext.<init>(CrawlerContext.java:33)

      \_ for 1st parameter

  at Crawler.<init>(Crawler.java:75)

      \_ for 1st parameter

  at CrawlTaskConsumer.<init>(CrawlTaskConsumer.java:30)

      \_ for 3rd parameter

  while locating CrawlTaskConsumer

 

Learn more:

  https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/ERROR_IN_CUSTOM_PROVIDER

 

1 error

 

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ConfigurationModule: "com.crawljax.di.ConfigurationModule"

CoreModule:          "com.crawljax.di.CoreModule"

CrawlTaskConsumer:   "com.crawljax.core.CrawlTaskConsumer"

Crawler:             "com.crawljax.core.Crawler"

CrawlerContext:      "com.crawljax.core.CrawlerContext"

WebDriverException:  "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException"

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Does it have something to do with the fact that it is a headless server and therefore firefox cannot be started? or does the connection between firefox and the docker container must be configured separately?

 

Regards,

Alex

[thc...@gmail.com]

Hi.

Try without `--user $(id -u):$(id -g)` and use the 2.13.0 image.

Best regards.

[Alibibo]

Hey thc202,

Thanks for the support and the quick reply.

The update to version 2.13.0 does not work at the moment, due to the port bind exception already described in this group. However, removing the user input has already solved the problem completely.

 

Regards,

Alex

[thc...@gmail.com]

The port bind exception should be fixed though, did you try again recently?


Good to know that it's working without the user argument.

Best regards.