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Selenium script was working...

Now it isn't. This is the traceback:

2012-07-16 05:59:12 -- Completed task, took 2.00 seconds, return code was 1.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/rcs1000/NewsViewer/screengrabber.py", line 9, in <module>
    display = Display(visible=0, size=(1024, 768))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyVirtualDisplay-0.1.0-py2.6.egg/pyvirtualdisplay/display.py", line 33, in __init__
    self._obj = self.display_class( 
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyVirtualDisplay-0.1.0-py2.6.egg/pyvirtualdisplay/display.py", line 51, in display_class
    cls.check_installed()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyVirtualDisplay-0.1.0-py2.6.egg/pyvirtualdisplay/xvfb.py", line 33, in check_installed
    EasyProcess([PROGRAM, '-help'], url=URL, ubuntu_package=PACKAGE).check_installed()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EasyProcess-0.1.4-py2.6.egg/easyprocess/__init__.py", line 202, in check_installed
    raise EasyProcessCheckInstalledError(self)
easyprocess.EasyProcessCheckInstalledError: cmd=['Xvfb', '-help']
OSError=None  
Program install error!

rcs1000 | 311 posts | July 16, 2012, 7:32 a.m. | permalink

That's very strange, we haven't changed anything in our setup over the weekend. Do you know when it started failing? Is it intermittent, or consistently failing now?

giles | 12074 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 16, 2012, 10:56 a.m. | permalink

It last worked on 10 July, I believe. (Looking at rcs1000.pythoanywhere.com)

rcs1000 | 311 posts | July 16, 2012, 11 a.m. | permalink

Looks like it's caused by your /tmp directory filling up; the EasyProcess wrapper that PyVirtualDisplay uses to check that Xvfb is installed properly just assumes that any error on startup is caused by a badly-installed program, but the actual error it's getting is

[Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', '/home/rcs1000']

Checking your file space, it looks like you've used up your complete quota. There are some big files in /tmp, probably temporary profiles from Firefox. See this other thread for a similar set of issues seen by another user.

giles | 12074 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 16, 2012, 3:09 p.m. | permalink

Thanks! That's solved the issue

rcs1000 | 311 posts | July 16, 2012, 3:21 p.m. | permalink

Excellent, thanks for letting us know!

giles | 12074 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 16, 2012, 6:05 p.m. | permalink