How can you reproduce a problem about w3af if the steps to reproduce the problem require you to remove w3af?

The w3af package depends on python-esmre and thus the required python module is installed. I can only assume that you have some sort of local installation of w3af...

i agree with d0rm0us3

but without any Reproduce steps ,

installed fresh kali to make sure , and the bug is there

you can try it , using fresh or corrent kali installation , go to the menu and click on w3af , or open terminal and type w3af , it will not work and the msg is

Your python installation needs the following modules to run w3af:
esmre

After installing any missing operating system packages, use pip to install the remaining modules:
sudo pip install esmre

w3af still not working in kali ,,
i got it work by install pip, and then install esmre from the source

Did a new VM with 1.0.6 for i386.
Tested w3af, worked.
Did "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade"
Test w3af and it was borked.

I did the same on amd64 and I could not reproduce the problem. So it seems to be specific to the i386 architecture. Looking into python-esmre, it's marked as architecture: all but seems to contain a .so file which is a compiled object that is specific to each architecture.

So that's the culprit. I will fix python-esmre...

I uploaded python-esmre_0.3.1-1kali3_source.changes that will fix this problem. Upgrade to python-esmre 0.3.1-1kali3 (once it's available in a few hours) on your machine and you should be fine.

Thanks for your report!