A problem for downloading the sequences.

[dingxiao8715]

Hello Li,

First of all, I sincerely thank you for writing this script. However, a problem appeared when I ran the command "./gisaid_EpiCoV_downloader.py -u $UNAME -p $PASSWD -hc -le -cg". I'm sure the username and password are correct. The errors are "2021-01-04 13:35 [INFO] GISAID EpiCoV Utility v20.12.14 2021-01-04 13:35 [INFO] Opening browser... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/mnt/g/test/EpiCoV_downloader/gisaid_EpiCoV_downloader.py", line 628, in main() File "/mnt/g/test/EpiCoV_downloader/gisaid_EpiCoV_downloader.py", line 604, in main download_gisaid_EpiCoV( File "/mnt/g/test/EpiCoV_downloader/gisaid_EpiCoV_downloader.py", line 171, in download_gisaid_EpiCoV driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile, options=options) File "/home/dingxiao/miniconda3/envs/gisaid/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 170, in init RemoteWebDriver.init( File "/home/dingxiao/miniconda3/envs/gisaid/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in init self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile) File "/home/dingxiao/miniconda3/envs/gisaid/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File "/home/dingxiao/miniconda3/envs/gisaid/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/home/dingxiao/miniconda3/envs/gisaid/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: invalid argument: can't kill an exited process". I hope you can help me to resolve this problem , thanks!

Best! Xiao

[dingxiao8715]

This is my log file. geckodriver.log

[poeli]

Hi Xiao,

Thanks for your report. I was not able to reproduce your error. The firefox crashed right after being launched by web driver due to channel error according to the provided log. There might be something wrong with the compatibility between firefox and the system. I will suggest you to uninstall Firefox from the conda environment. If Firefox is pre-installed on your system, you can try the script again; If not, using your system's package manager (apt-get, yum...etc.) to get Firefox installed and rerun the script.

Also, you might want to check this post if you run WSL.

Hope it helps!

Paul

[dingxiao8715]

Thanks Li~ I'll try again.

[poeli]

I'm closing this issue for now. Please reopen if necessary.