Greenbone/Fehlerbehebung

Problembehebung

There is a lot that can go wrong during the installation of OpenVAS as some of our readers has pointed out, therefore, we decided to create a little extra section here, covering the most common errors.

PostgreSQL Version Errors v13 and v14

There are multiple possible version errors for PostgreSQL. As our reader Tom has pointed out, the first one is:

[>] Starting PostgreSQL service[-] ERROR: The default PostgreSQL version (13) is not 14 that is required by libgvmd[-] ERROR: Use pg_upgradecluster to update your PostgreSQL cluster

Solution:

Open the postgresql.conf file of version 14 and change the port to 5432:

sudo nano /etc/postgresql/14/main/postgresql.conf

Then open the postgresql.conf file of version 13 and check if the port is the same as in version 14. If it is the same – change it to 5433:

sudo nano /etc/postgresql/13/main/postgresql.conf

Restart the PostgreSQL service:

sudo systemctl restart postgresql

PostgreSQL Version Errors v14 and v15

During my installation, I got the following error affecting v14 and v15 of PostgreSQL:

[>] Starting PostgreSQL service[-] ERROR: The default PostgreSQL version (14) is not 15 that is required by libgvmd[-] ERROR: Use pg_upgradecluster to update your PostgreSQL cluster

Gladly, the solution to this problem was easier than the one above and might as well work for the problem above:

sudo systemcctl stop postgresql@14-main
sudo /usr/bin/pg_dropcluster --stop 14 main

OpenVAS failed to find config

Another common error is the failed to find config ‘long-string-value’ message. There are multiple possible solutions for this issue. The one that worked for me is the following:

$ sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --get-scanners

Note down the scanner ID.

Then run

$ sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --get-users --verbose

This gives you the users, including their IDs. You are probably an admin. To solve the issue, enter:

$ sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --modify-scanner [scanner id] --value [user id]