Error Running scans

[normalnorm]

running on kali most recent kde iso, getting python error when adding host to scope. No scans start and host not added. console throws this...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/sparta/ui/view.py", line 376, in callAddHosts
self.controller.addHosts(self.adddialog.textinput.text(), self.adddialog.discovery.isChecked(), self.adddialog.nmap.isChecked())
File "/root/sparta/controller/controller.py", line 184, in addHosts
self.runStagedNmap(iprange, runHostDiscovery)
File "/root/sparta/controller/controller.py", line 555, in runStagedNmap
self.runCommand('nmap','nmap (stage '+str(stage)+')', str(iprange), '', '', command, getTimestamp(True), outputfile, textbox, discovery, stage, stop)
File "/root/sparta/app/auxiliary.py", line 85, in getTimestamp
timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t).strftime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S").decode(locale.getlocale()[1])
TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None

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I am seeing the same thing, has anyone got a workaround for this?

[st3r30byt3]

Hi guys!

The quickest workaround I can think of is to edit /usr/share/sparta/app/auxiliary.py and change the line that has:

timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t).strftime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S").decode(locale.getlocale()[1])

to

timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t).strftime("%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")

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Thanks st3r30byt3! I had cloned it and was going to debug tonight otherwise.