(kali) Pdf report is empty while other format (cvs, xml) are ok

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@bricks well. kali maintainer finally fixed it?

or fix is coming soon.

Eero

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Updated Kali instance today and that appears fixed. PDF reports can be downloaded ok

However, also needed to create folder /var/lib/notus/products and make it owned by gvm as it was missing after the upgrade
Had similar issue to Database Migration from 21.04 -> 22.04
Needed to :
su postgres -
psql gvmd
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS hosts_contains(text,text) CASCADE;
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS max_hosts(text,text) CASCADE;
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS regexp(text,text) CASCADE;

before the gvmd database would migrate and openvas would start.

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For the records from https://forum.greenbone.net/t/kali-linux-pdf-issues-new-solution-to-new-version/13387/3:

Update from package maintainer:

Hello,

Thanks for your email and your patch.
If I understand correctly the “real” issue was not in gvmd but in texlive-latex-extra.
We have a new version of texlive-latex-extra since 2 days. I think it fixes the issue. At least I don’t reproduce the issue.
Please let me know if you still have the issue.

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@jason This seems to be completely unrelated to this topic. Nevertheless please raise an issue at https://bugs.kali.org for the Kali package maintainer so that these cases could be handled more gracefully during package upgrades.

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Your script worked like a charm with the new base64 encoded part.
Tried it on a fresh kali + gvm install on a pi 4.

Thanks @bricks

Just in case someone might execute the script to often, like me:
Revert the file content with following file content
pdf-c402cc3e-b531-11e1-9163-406186ea4fc5.xml (93.7 KB)

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@flipthemouse well… I think this is fixed in kali packages, so my script is nowdays useless? just update packages to latest in kali and it should work fine?

Eero

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