Missing Notus files in gvm-check-setup

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Hello,

I saw this

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Both scripts gvm-setup and gvm-check-setup currently shipped in Kali (or any other Linux Distribution) are not provided any maintained by Greenbone.

In the case of Kali any issue or feature / improvement request would need a newly created issue over there:

https://bugs.kali.org
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My issue is I have done the gvm-setup on kali, but i didn’t get my notus files according to the gvm-check-setup. is this an issue to be asked to kali.org? I would love to learn this tool. thanks for your help!

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gvm-check-setup 23.11.0
Test completeness and readiness of GVM-23.11.0
Step 1: Checking OpenVAS (Scanner)…
OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 22.7.9.
OK: Notus Scanner is present in version 22.6.3.
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
OK: NVT collection in /var/lib/openvas/plugins contains 105 NVTs.
ERROR: The collection of the *.notus files is very small.
FIX: Run the synchronization script greenbone-feed-sync.
sudo greenbone-feed-sync --type notus

ERROR: Your GVM-23.11.0 installation is not yet complete!

Please follow the instructions marked with FIX above and run this
script again.
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I have run sudo greenbone-feed-sync --type notus and still same result.
also i am running this on VirtualBox kali linux VM with 100gbs storage - it wouldn’t be a storage issue would it?

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Firstly, I would check that you are using the official Kali Linux install method provided by Greenbone. Secondly, check your Network connection is not being interrupted during the feed-sync process. :slight_smile:

Although this check is reporting as OK:

OK: NVT collection in /var/lib/openvas/plugins contains 105 NVTs.

The check is not a robust check of a successful feed-sync. It only checks that a small number of the files are downloaded. In this case, 105 NVTs is far less than expected. So, I guess you are experiencing some network interruption during the process.

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