Encounter error message [wk: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/default/greenbone-security-assistant' for reading (No such file or directory)]

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Environment

Operating system: : Kali Linux 2020.4
Kernel: (‘uname -a’) : Linux kali 5.9.0-kali5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.15-1kali1 (2020-12-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I encounter this error message [wk: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/default/greenbone-security-assistant’ for reading (No such file or directory)] when i start greenbone:

┌──(root💀kali)-[~]
└─# gvm-start
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/default/greenbone-security-assistant’ for reading (No such file or directory)

i cannot find this file/directory either. could you advise how can i solve this?

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having exact same problem. any ideas how to solve this ?

Closing as a duplicate of Fresh Kali and gvm install, getting fatal error on gvm-start.

If you have further questions / remarks on this issue / problem on this third party packaging problem please follow up in the issue reported to the Kali package maintainers linked in https://community.greenbone.net/t/fresh-kali-and-gvm-install-getting-fatal-error-on-gvm-start/7801/3:

https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=6915

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