Hi everyone,
We are hosting Greenbone Community Edition (Docker setup) on an AWS EC2 instance.
Our setup works fine initially — we install, update feeds, run scans successfully, and then shut down the instance to save costs.
However, every time we start the instance again after a few months, the scanner stops working properly. Usually, we just reinstall everything to make it work again, but that’s not a sustainable approach.
This time, after starting the EC2 instance again, the feeds don’t update and the scanner doesn’t work.
Below are the logs from the containers:
docker logs -f greenbone-community-edition-gvmd-1
md main:MESSAGE:2026-01-12 11h19.02 utc:82: Greenbone Vulnerability Manager version 26.4.1 (DB revision 262)
md main:WARNING:2026-01-12 11h20.11 utc:87: The gvmd data feed directory /var/lib/gvm/data-objects/gvmd or one of its subdirectories does not exist.
md manage: INFO:2026-01-12 11h21.02 utc:117: osp_scanner_feed_version: No feed version available yet. OSPd OpenVAS is still starting
(repeats indefinitely)
docker logs -f greenbone-community-edition-openvasd-1
WARN openvasd::vts: Failed to synchronize feeds. error=Unexpected error occurred: Unable to load file: sha256sums not found.. next_check=3600s
INFO greenbone_scanner_framework: listening on http://0.0.0.0:80
(repeats hourly)