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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0000240Kali LinuxTool Upgrade Requestpublic2025-07-14 09:38
Reporterdropdead Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionduplicate 
Platformx86OSKaliOS Version1.0
Summary0000240: w3af don't start
Description

first sorry for my bad english ,when i want to start w3af via menu or terminal , all that i get is only the w3af's image and no start

Steps To Reproduce

when i launch w3af via menu or terminal

Additional Information

the terminal ouput is :

Starting w3af, running on:
Python version:
2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 16:53:07)
[GCC 4.7.2]
GTK version: 2.24.10
PyGTK version: 2.24.0

w3af - Web Application Attack and Audit Framework
Version: 1.2
Revision: unknown
Distribution: Debian
Author: Andres Riancho and the w3af team.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/w3af/w3af_gui", line 84, in <module>
errCode = main()
File "/usr/share/w3af/w3af_gui", line 81, in main
core.ui.gtkUi.main.main(profile, doupdate)
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/main.py", line 858, in main
MainApp(profile, do_upd)
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/main.py", line 406, in init
self.pcbody = pluginconfig.PluginConfigBody(self, self.w3af)
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/pluginconfig.py", line 620, in init
self.pan = self._buildpan()
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/pluginconfig.py", line 638, in _buildpan
self.std_plugin_tree = PluginTree(self.w3af, "standard", self.config_panel)
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/pluginconfig.py", line 241, in init
if self._getEditablePlugin(plugin, plugintype):
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/ui/gtkUi/pluginconfig.py", line 296, in _getEditablePlugin
plugin = self.w3af.plugins.getPluginInstance(pname, ptype)
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/controllers/coreHelpers/plugins.py", line 237, in getPluginInstance
pluginInst = factory('plugins.' + pluginType + '.' + pluginName)
File "/usr/share/w3af/core/controllers/misc/factory.py", line 49, in factory
raise w3afException('There was an error while importing '+ moduleName + ': "' + str(ie) + '".')
w3afException: There was an error while importing plugins.discovery.wordnet: "No module named nltk.corpus.util".

Activities

deadlock

deadlock

2013-04-13 08:13

reporter   ~0000363

Try this: http://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=197#c362

saberzaid

saberzaid

2013-05-31 08:20

reporter   ~0000482

http://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=344

this is the fix for it

rhertzog

rhertzog

2013-10-08 10:23

administrator   ~0000971

Duplicate of 0000344. We're traking the w3af update there.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-04-05 04:57 dropdead New Issue
2013-04-13 08:13 deadlock Note Added: 0000363
2013-05-31 08:20 saberzaid Note Added: 0000482
2013-10-08 10:23 rhertzog Note Added: 0000971
2013-10-08 10:23 rhertzog Status new => closed
2013-10-08 10:23 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2013-10-08 10:23 rhertzog Resolution open => duplicate
2021-05-31 13:37 rhertzog Category Tool Upgrade => Tool Upgrade Request
2025-07-14 09:38 g0tmi1k Severity crash => minor