Permission denied: geckodriver.log while running selenium webdriver in python

Question

I installed Firefox and Selenium on centos. I use Xvfb and pyvirtualdisplay to open a browser.

When I try to run selenium webdriver, I can open a new screen, but as soon as I do

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

I get an error message:

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 134, in __init__
    self.service = Service(executable_path, log_path=log_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/service.py", line 45, in __init__
    log_file = open(log_path, "a+")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'geckodriver.log'

Any clues on what's going wrong here?

EDIT: after overcoming the permission error, I get

Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH

Answer 1

Apparently, this may be due to incompatibilities between your firefox and your Selenium. Try it pip install --upgrade selenium, and if the error still exists, try downloading a different version of Firefox or the gecko driver .

Regarding the post:

'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH

script:

ff_profile_dir = "/usr/local/selenium/webdriver/firefox"
ff_profile = selenium.webdriver.FirefoxProfile(profile_directory=ff_profile_dir)
driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox(ff_profile)

, , Unix- bash - :

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/directory/of/executable/downloaded/in/previous/step

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\geckodriver.log

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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