Metasploit not starting on windows

[Onyz107]

Steps to reproduce

How'd you do it?

1. Downloaded https://windows.metasploit.com/metasploitframework-latest.msi
2. Ran the installer.
3. Navigated into C:\metasploit-framework\bin
4. Ran msfconsole.bat

This section should also tell us any relevant information about the
environment; for example, if an exploit that used to work is failing,
tell us the victim operating system and service versions.

Were you following a specific guide/tutorial or reading documentation?

no

Expected behavior

Run msfconsole

Current behavior

It produces errors:

Even the updater is giving errors:

Although msfvenom is working.

Framework Version: 6.4.28-dev-0ee44151f7f414f989fa7c8cff2b78506ed00755

Get this with the version command in msfconsole (or git log -1 --pretty=oneline for a source install).

Additional Information

It is only the starting process of msfconsole that is failing, what I mean is msfconsole --help or msfconsole --version is working but the ruby deprecation warning is still present.

All is ran using admin privs

[hoyt-harness]

Same issue here using 6.4.27 stable.

[bcoles]

Looks like a dupe of #19516. This should be patched in #19523 which was included in the latest release (6.4.29).

Although the MSI installer is a couple of releases behind (6.4.27):

$ file metasploitframework-latest.msi 
metasploitframework-latest.msi: Composite Document File V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 6.2, MSI Installer, Code page: 1252, Title: Installation Database, Subject: Metasploit-framework v6.4.27, Author: Rapid7 Release Engineering <[email protected]>, Keywords: Installer, Comments: This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Metasploit-framework v6.4.27., Template: x64;1033, Revision Number: {0C7B2B00-0410-404A-80DB-F0529B513A9F}, Create Time/Date: Tue Sep 24 11:09:00 2024, Last Saved Time/Date: Tue Sep 24 11:09:00 2024, Number of Pages: 405, Number of Words: 2, Name of Creating Application: Windows Installer XML Toolset (3.14.1.8722), Security: 2

[Onyz107]

Looks like a dupe of #19516. This should be patched in #19523 which was included in the latest release (6.4.29).

Although the MSI installer is a couple of releases behind (6.4.27):

$ file metasploitframework-latest.msi 
metasploitframework-latest.msi: Composite Document File V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 6.2, MSI Installer, Code page: 1252, Title: Installation Database, Subject: Metasploit-framework v6.4.27, Author: Rapid7 Release Engineering <[email protected]>, Keywords: Installer, Comments: This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Metasploit-framework v6.4.27., Template: x64;1033, Revision Number: {0C7B2B00-0410-404A-80DB-F0529B513A9F}, Create Time/Date: Tue Sep 24 11:09:00 2024, Last Saved Time/Date: Tue Sep 24 11:09:00 2024, Number of Pages: 405, Number of Words: 2, Name of Creating Application: Windows Installer XML Toolset (3.14.1.8722), Security: 2

When do you think they will update the MSI installer?

[adfoster-r7]

When do you think they will update the MSI installer?

Should be released now 👍