Selenium Firefox Python running in headless mode Timeout on initializing driver

• Firefox version: 60.9.0esr (32-bit)
• Selenium version: 3.141.0
• Geckodriver version: 0.24.0 (32-bit)

So everything currently works in non-headless mode. But I need to run this python script in a GUI-less linux server (thus need headless mode). For some reason, all my attempts to run headlessly results in selenium web driver timing out on initialization.

        from selenium import webdriver

        geckoDriverFilepath = path + "geckodriver24_32.exe"

        opts = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
        opts.add_argument("--headless")
        opts.add_argument("--width=2560")
        opts.add_argument("--height=1440")

        #initialize driver (breaks/timeouts here)
        driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=opts,executable_path=geckoDriverFilepath)

The following is the Traceback:

File "c:\Users\xUser\Desktop\BOMWebService\Backend\code\FirefoxStarter.py", line 51, in StartFirefox driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=opts,executable_path=geckoDriverFilepath)

File "C:\Users\xUser\Desktop\BOMWebService\Backend\virEnvBOMBackend\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 174, in init keep_alive=True)

File "C:\Users\xUser\Desktop\BOMWebService\Backend\virEnvBOMBackend\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in init self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)

File "C:\Users\xUser\Desktop\BOMWebService\Backend\virEnvBOMBackend\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)

File "C:\Users\xUser\Desktop\BOMWebService\Backend\virEnvBOMBackend\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response)

File "C:\Users\xUser\Desktop\BOMWebService\Backend\virEnvBOMBackend\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: timed out

Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!