Ha.

Ignore me. I was running in a VirtualBox VM, and had installed w3af on
the shared folder (with the windows host). It was not at all happy about
that. It works fine when installed on the local drive.

Ken

On 05/09/2013 4:08 PM, Gern Blanston wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have just tried starting to use w3af. I am running Debian Linux
> (stable) installed yesterday. I followed the installation instructions
> from here: http://w3af.org/download
>
> Upon running w3af_gui, the splash screen shows up, then the tool crashes
> with the following error. Looking online has proven fruitless (old
> messages and/or messages about windows).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
>
> Starting w3af, running on:
>   Python version: 2.7.3 (default, Jan  2 2013, 13:56:14) [GCC 4.7.2]
>   GTK version: 2.24.10
>   PyGTK version: 2.24.0
>   w3af version:
>     w3af - Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
>     Version: 1.6
>     Revision: 638470611f - 08 Aug 2013 16:00
>     Author: Andres Riancho and the w3af team.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./w3af_gui", line 104, in <module>
>     err_code = main()
>   File "./w3af_gui", line 101, in main
>     core.ui.gui.main.main(profile, doupdate)
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/ui/gui/main.py", line 907, in main
>     MainApp(profile, do_upd)
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/ui/gui/main.py", line 404, in __init__
>     self.pcbody = pluginconfig.PluginConfigBody(self, self.w3af)
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/ui/gui/pluginconfig.py", line 620,
> in __init__
>     self.pan = self._buildpan()
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/ui/gui/pluginconfig.py", line 640,
> in _buildpan
>     self.w3af, "standard", self.config_panel)
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/ui/gui/pluginconfig.py", line 243,
> in __init__
>     if self._getEditablePlugin(plugin, plugintype):
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/ui/gui/pluginconfig.py", line 299,
> in _getEditablePlugin
>     plugin = self.w3af.plugins.get_plugin_inst(ptype, pname)
>   File
> "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/controllers/core_helpers/plugins.py",
> line 241, in get_plugin_inst
>     plugin_inst = factory('plugins.' + plugin_type + '.' + plugin_name)
>   File "/media/sf_HAM/tools/w3af/core/controllers/misc/factory.py", line
> 46, in factory
>     raise w3afException(msg % (module_name, ie))
> w3afException: There was an error while importing
> plugins.infrastructure.halberd: "No module named shell".
>
>
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