Failed to rebuild gvmd data

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Finally I’ve made it to almost working Greenbone on Debian (via manual), to a point:

  • No port lists available
  • No Scan Configs available

Tried following:

  • purged the content of /var/lib/gvm and resynced all - NVTs, SCAP, CERT, GVMD_DATA, no succeed
  • followed the troubleshooting in the manual:
    $ find /var/lib/gvm/data-objects/ -name “33d0cd82-57c6-11e1-8ed1-406186ea4fc5.xml”
    /var/lib/gvm/data-objects/gvmd/22.04/port-lists/all-iana-assigned-tcp-33d0cd82-57c6-11e1-8ed1-406186ea4fc5.xml

$ sudo -u gvm greenbone-feed-sync --type GVMD_DATA
succeeded

$ sudo -u gvm gvmd --rebuild-gvmd-data=all
Failed to rebuild gvmd data: Feed owner not set or invalid while rebuilding configs.

The same message appears in /var/log/gvm/gvmd.log

Any hints?

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Hi,

the error message suggest that the feed import owner is not set. See the bottom of the https://greenbone.github.io/docs/latest/22.4/source-build/troubleshooting.html#failed-to-find-config section to set the feed import owner.

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It’s working. I had to split the command:

gvmd --modify-setting 78eceaec-3385-11ea-b237-28d24461215b --value `gvmd --get-users --verbose | grep admin | awk '{print $2}'

into two because the quotations of value parameter were causing issues (gvmd: g_option_context_parse: Missing argument for --value):

sudo -u gvm gvmd --get-users --verbose | grep admin | awk '{print $2}'
99d19126-0e8c-412d-b3f9-48c8ea0c648f
sudo -u gvm gvmd --modify-setting 78eceaec-3385-11ea-b237-28d24461215b --value 99d19126-0e8c-412d-b3f9-48c8ea0c648f

my fault, i haven’t understood the message properly previously. could save the post here. hope the others will take it.

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Could you please explain what’s confusing here? I don’t see an issue with the command.

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Hey, I still have some problem here…

sudo -u gvm gvmd --rebuild-gvmd-data=all
Failed to rebuild gvmd data: NVTs must be available while rebuilding configs.

~                                                                                                                                                   03:18:24
> sudo -u gvm gvmd --get-users --verbose | grep admin | awk '{print $2}' 
a58769bf-9c65-4783-99cc-1056b965f7ec

~                                                                                                                                                   03:19:22
> sudo -u gvm gvmd --modify-setting 78eceaec-3385-11ea-b237-28d24461215b --value a58769bf-9c65-4783-99cc-1056b965f7ec

~                                                                                                                                                   03:19:37
> sudo -u gvm gvmd --rebuild-gvmd-data=all                                                                           
Failed to rebuild gvmd data: NVTs must be available while rebuilding configs.

I don’t know I can do more… please help

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From a short look some of your services (i guess ospd-openvas) is not running at all, the feed wasn’t synced previously or similar.

I would suggest to create a new thread (this one is already quite old and has been already marked as solved) and when doing so provide more info on your environment (e.g. info on the installation method, what steps have been done, …).

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This! And https://greenbone.github.io/docs/latest/22.4/source-build/troubleshooting.html#failed-to-find-scan-configuration contains many information for fixing your issue. Please read it carefully!

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