Greenbone-feed-sync --type nasl connection unexpectedly closed

Hi Guys

I need your help, please.

I installed a free OpenVAS 23.45.2 (gvm-libs 22.41.0) on a Kali (2026.2) on VirtualBox. and I could not update the NASL.

└─$ sudo gvm-check-setup
gvm-check-setup 25.04.0
This script is provided and maintained by Debian and Kali.
Test completeness and readiness of GVM-25.04.0
Step 1: Checking OpenVAS (Scanner)…
OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 23.45.1.
OK: Notus Scanner is present in version 22.7.2.
OK: Server CA Certificate is present as /var/lib/gvm/CA/servercert.pem.
Checking permissions of /var/lib/openvas/gnupg/*
OK: _gvm owns all files in /var/lib/openvas/gnupg
OK: redis-server is present.
OK: scanner (db_address setting) is configured properly using the redis-server socket: /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock
OK: the mqtt_server_uri is defined in /etc/openvas/openvas.conf
OK: _gvm owns all files in /var/lib/openvas/plugins
ERROR: The NVT collection is very small.
FIX: Run the synchronization script greenbone-feed-sync.
sudo greenbone-feed-sync --type nasl

ERROR: Your GVM-25.04.0 installation is not yet complete!

─$ sudo /usr/bin/greenbone-feed-sync --type nasl --verbose
Running as root. Switching to user ‘_gvm’ and group ‘_gvm’.
Trying to acquire lock on /var/lib/openvas/feed-update.lock
Acquired lock on /var/lib/openvas/feed-update.lock
⠇ Downloading NASL files from
rsync://feed.community.greenbone.net/community/vulnerability-feed/24.10/vt-data/nasl/ to
/var/lib/openvas/plugins
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (65542 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(232) [Receiver=3.4.2]

¿How can I fix this or complete this? or ¿do we have another way?

thank you

@felipe

install strace and try following command

sudo strace /usr/bin/greenbone-feed-sync --type nasl

is firewall for rsync protocol open?

Eero

hi Eero.

I moved to ubuntu. it works fine now :slight_smile:

thank you for your help.

@felipe I really can’t recommend Ubuntu unless you’re working with self-compiled source packages. The Ubuntu packages are broken and seriously out of date.

Eero

hi @Eero what is your point of view about: Ubuntu + Docker + OpenVAS. I installed that combination.