GRR server is broken

[Timmy0Turner]

I installed the latest version of grr-server in ubuntu 17 and it seems to have some python problems :

root@timmyx/etc/grr# grr_server
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/grr_server", line 7, in <module>
    from grr.server.distro_entry import GrrServer
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/grr/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from urllib.request import urlopen
ImportError: No module named request

my configuration is :

root@timmyx:/etc/grr# 
root@timmyx:/etc/grr# uname -a
Linux timmyx 4.13.0-21-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 18 17:29:16 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@timmyx:/etc/grr# 
root@timmyx:/etc/grr# python -V
Python 2.7.14
root@timmyx:/etc/grr# 
root@timmyx:/etc/grr# 

the problem is my end or this is a bug in the grr-server ?

[ogarod]

How did you install GRR? I'm unable to reproduce this on a fresh Ubuntu artful VM - I can install the latest server deb and run a new worker process:

grr_server --component worker3 --verbose

[ogarod]

If installing from pip, I'd advise installing to a virtualenv (from the stack trace, it does not look like GRR is installed in a virtualenv).

[Timmy0Turner]

I used the multiple ways mentioned in the Docs, all of them output the same errors

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/releases.grr-response.com/grr-server_3.2.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -y ./grr-server_3.2.0-1_amd64.deb

grr_config_updater  #errors 
grr_console #errors 
grr_server #errors 

Can you give me please the chain of commands you used along with your python default version ?

[ogarod]

3.2.0.1 is an old release. Try using the 3.2.2.0 server deb (link in previous comment).

When following the instructions in http://grr-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-grr-server/from-released-pip.html , could you paste the stack trace you get when you try to run grr_config_updater initialize from inside the GRR_ENV virtualenv?

[Timmy0Turner]

I tried with 3.2.2.0 using both methods and got the same error

Running grr_config_updater initialize
To avoid this prompting, set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
#################################################################
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/grr_config_updater", line 7, in <module>
    from grr.server.distro_entry import ConfigUpdater
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/grr/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from urllib.request import urlopen
ImportError: No module named request
dpkg: error processing package grr-server (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grr-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

just want to make sure grr is written in which version of python exactly ?

[ogarod]

The 'grr_config_updater' being run (/usr/local/bin/grr_config_updater) is not that of a virtualenv. Exit the GRR_ENV virtualenv and uninstall all GRR packages from '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/' (pip uninstall grr-response-server ...).

Assuming you are installing GRR from pip, if you created the virtualenv in, for instance, your home directory, the path to the right script would be: $HOME/GRR_ENV/bin/grr_config_updater.

[grrrrrrrrr]

I think the main issue is that you have "grr" installed. I think it's trying to run the code at https://github.com/legoktm/grr/blob/master/grr/__init__.py#L25

This seems to be a system wide package and conflicts with our imports. Can you verify that uninstalling that package fixes things?

[Broctets-and-Bytes]

It may be an unfixable issue at this time. Last I checked grr only supported up to Xenial. Unless you specifically need V17.x, you may want to run in V16.x Have a great day,

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[Timmy0Turner]

Fixed, thank's all