Failed to start Open Vulnerability Assessment system scanner Daemon

Looks like that fixed the issue for me … just a complete uninstall and reinstall. The steps I took were:

  • apt-get purge openvas
  • apt-get purge redis
  • apt clean
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get upgrade
  • apt autoremove
  • cd /var/lib
  • mv redis redis-old
  • RESTART
  • apt-get install openvas
  • openvas-setup
  • openvas-check-setup
  • sed -e ‘s/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/g’ greenbone-security-assistant.service openvas-manager.service openvas-scanner.service -i
  • cd /lib/systemd/system
  • vim greenbone-security-assistant.service
  • Add to the ExecStart line --allow-header-host “hostname.example.com” (Note* The listen should be 0.0.0.0
  • ststemctl daemon-reload
  • openvas-stop
  • openvas-start
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