New to Greenbone, Fresh Install does not work

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As the title suggests. I am new to Greenbone as I just discovered you from a Reddit post.
I installed a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 and then followed the instructions here:

Also to note: If you have an all in one script like you say at the bottom… you may want to move that to the top and tell people to just skip this if they prefer to do it manually.

I followed all the instructions (press the copy button, paste in SSH session). Upon completion there was some unexpected things that I have overlooked. For example normally when using docker compose and I bring it up I see “Running” when things are done and many of them said “Exited”. I did a Stop and Start and even a few times a down and then up again just for testing and I could not connect.

I then found that I needed to change the 127.0.0.1:9392:80 line to 9392:80 which also a note should have been put as that is one extensively long docker compose file.

No worries I can get in. I press the magic wand (Task Wizard) which pulled my IP and placed it in. Press Start Scan and boom! Greeted with a nice red box:
Failed to find config ‘daba56c8-73ec-11df-a475-002264764cea’
Running the log monitor on the compose stack shows:
event wizard:MESSAGE:2025-05-02 15h46.43 utc:283: Wizard quick_first_scan could not be run by admin
and that is it in relation to what is going on.

I searched online and found some threads in here but everything I have tried simply doesn’t seem to work as they don’t seem related to the docker images or a user account that doesn’t exist and I’m at a loss.

The last piece is that the following containers are “Exited”
gvm-tools
report-formats
dfn-cert-data
scap-data
notus-data
vulnerability-tests
openvas-scanner
gpg-data
data-objects
cert-bund-data

Running containers:
gsa
gvmd
ospd-openvas
openvas-scanner
openvas-scanner
pg-gvm
redis-server

I’m at a loss and don’t really know where to go.

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We intentionally put the script at the end, because we want our users to go through the documentation before asking questions in the forum, that may already be covered by the documentation. :wink:

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Any ideas as to why it just doesn’t want to seem to work? Is the best thing to do just roll back my snapshot and then use the AiO script?

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As @y0urself mentioned, running some script from the internet without knowing what it actually does is not the best idea. Therefore we put it at the end of the community container docs. Personally I would remove it completely because running the containers is just standard compose usage.

Could you give us some more details what actually isn’t working?

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