In my opinion the question might be better asked from the pentest framework guys. Nevertheless

Not totally sure that the installation gets executed from the correct path. For me the install works about 50 % of time. But the error is different.
Best of luck.

Maybe your issue is duplicated with #882. It seems to be a known bug.

Many thanks for the support!

I did an update through the pentest framework and now get the following error when trying to run empire.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./empire", line 1381, in
main = empire.MainMenu(args=args)
File "/pentest/powershell/empire-ps/lib/common/empire.py", line 79, in init
(self.isroot, self.installPath, self.ipWhiteList, self.ipBlackList, self.obfuscate, self.obfuscateCommand) = helpers.get_config('rootuser, install_path,ip_whitelist,ip_blacklist,obfuscate,obfuscate_command')
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

try ./setup/reset.sh

Still quite sure it is due to the unusual path. It didn't reach dependencies before. Now it isn't getting one of the main variables.
Empire seems quite sensitive about it. But I'll give it a go and let you know what happens.

https://github.com/trustedsec/ptf
use modules/install_update_all
yes
...
Four hours later
out of disk space
Uuups. I make big mistake :)

This took a lot longer then expected.
Got the same error as you. Like @ThePirateWhoSmellsOfSunflowers mention ./setup/reset.sh FIXED IT. Run ./install.sh and it breaks again and helpers.get_config won't get its variables.

OK... got this on my main branch as well.
It seems this happens consistently if you run ./install.sh twice. After a clean git clone. The first time install works nice. Second time it gives the before-mentioned error. ./reset.sh will fix it.

I'm guessing the pentest framework installed it before and you installed it a second time which caused the error.

@dan7ez @CryptomaticSquirrel @ThePirateWhoSmellsOfSunflowers there is an update in the dev branch to catch changes in the database after an upgrade. Probably won't catch all corner cases, but should catch most of them.
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