sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: A transaction is already begun on this Session.

[d213honeynet]

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Expected Behavior

the malware analysis process successful, not failed_processing

Current Behavior

failed_processing because an error, with the error message : "sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: A transaction is already begun on this Session."

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install and setup the kvm-qemu.sh and cape2.sh
2. Config the .conf file
3. Restart all .services
4. Submit the malware
5. Waiting the analysis process
6. Analysis process give the failed_processing result

Context

Question	Answer
OS Host	Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Desktop
OS Victim	Windows 10 Pro 22H2

Failure Logs

27 19:02:29 cape poetry[28644]: INFO: modules.reporting.resubmitexe: Resubmitexe file "/opt/CAPEv2/storage/analyses/2/files/c8614f11c662ba838ef6ed98e378576c7af342d71f38ec24d9aa4fc6b28352a9_link/GRVoMsBieCs.doc" added as task with ID [3] resub count 0
Jul 27 19:02:29 cape poetry[28644]: INFO: modules.reporting.resubmitexe: Resubmitexe file "/opt/CAPEv2/storage/analyses/2/files/c8614f11c662ba838ef6ed98e378576c7af342d71f38ec24d9aa4fc6b28352a9_link/GRVoMsBieCs.doc" added as task with ID {} resub count 1
Jul 27 19:02:29 cape poetry[28644]: INFO: modules.reporting.resubmitexe: Resubmitexe file "/opt/CAPEv2/storage/analyses/2/files/9ef4492d81a6e6aece1d916863a07f92145fe95856be0293be9bb813b135ce33_link/GEXgVcgJPI.doc" added as task with ID [4] resub count 2
Jul 27 19:02:29 cape poetry[28644]: INFO: modules.reporting.resubmitexe: Resubmitexe file "/opt/CAPEv2/storage/analyses/2/files/9ef4492d81a6e6aece1d916863a07f92145fe95856be0293be9bb813b135ce33_link/GEXgVcgJPI.doc" added as task with ID {} resub count 3
Jul 27 19:02:29 cape poetry[28644]: INFO: modules.reporting.resubmitexe: Hit resub limit of 3, stopping iteration
Jul 27 19:02:29 cape poetry[28644]: DEBUG: lib.cuckoo.core.plugins: Executing reporting module "JsonDump"
Jul 27 19:02:31 cape poetry[28644]: DEBUG: lib.cuckoo.core.plugins: Executing reporting module "TMPFSCLEAN"
Jul 27 19:02:31 cape poetry[28644]: DEBUG: modules.reporting.tmpfsclean: Deleting memdump: /mnt/tmpfs/2.dmp
Jul 27 19:02:31 cape poetry[28644]: DEBUG: lib.cuckoo.core.plugins: Executing reporting module "MongoDB"
Jul 27 19:02:32 cape poetry[28644]: INFO: dev_utils.mongodb: attempting to delete calls for 1 tasks
Jul 27 19:02:32 cape poetry[28644]: DEBUG: modules.reporting.mongodb: Deleted previous MongoDB data for Task 2
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: 2025-07-27 19:02:34,736 [root] ERROR: [2] Exception when processing task: A transaction is already begun on this Session.
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: pebble.common.types.RemoteTraceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/home/cape/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/capev2-t2x27zRb-py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pebble/common/process.py", line 65, in process_execute
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: return Result(ResultStatus.SUCCESS, function(*args, **kwargs))
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/opt/CAPEv2/utils/process.py", line 160, in process
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: with db.session.begin():
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "", line 2, in begin
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "", line 2, in begin
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/home/cape/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/capev2-t2x27zRb-py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/deprecations.py", line 375, in warned
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: return fn(*args, **kwargs)
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/home/cape/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/capev2-t2x27zRb-py3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 1334, in begin
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: raise sa_exc.InvalidRequestError(
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: A transaction is already begun on this Session.
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/opt/CAPEv2/utils/process.py", line 355, in processing_finished
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: _ = future.result()
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 449, in result
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: return self.__get_result()
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: File "/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 401, in __get_result
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: raise self._exception
Jul 27 19:02:34 cape poetry[2679]: sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: A transaction is already begun on this Session.

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