Openvas error after installation on Kali Linux

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Hello user,

I would like to use OpenVas and have installed this on USB, VirtualBox and Native in Kali Linux. The result for all 3 installations is identical. After calling in the browser and the login, I get mistakes at many menu items.

„SecInfo“: The SCAP database is required

„my Settings“ kann ich keine Änderungen vornehmen : Given time_format was invalid

The output of „sudo gvm-check-setup:

vm-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 23.13.1.
        OK: Notus Scanner is present in version 22.6.4.
        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 93023 NVTs.
        OK: The notus directory /var/lib/notus/products contains 472 NVTs.
Checking that the obsolete redis database has been removed
        OK: No old Redis DB
        OK: ospd-openvas service is active.
        OK: ospd-OpenVAS is present in version 22.7.1.
Step 2: Checking GVMD Manager ... 
        OK: GVM Manager (gvmd) is present in version 24.0.0.
Step 3: Checking Certificates ... 
        OK: GVM client certificate is valid and present as /var/lib/gvm/CA/clientcert.pem.
        OK: Your GVM certificate infrastructure passed validation.
Step 4: Checking data ... 
        OK: SCAP data found in /var/lib/gvm/scap-data.
        OK: CERT data found in /var/lib/gvm/cert-data.
Step 5: Checking Postgresql DB and user ... 
        OK: Postgresql version and default port are OK.
 gvmd      | _gvm     | UTF8     | libc            | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |        |           | 
16436|pg-gvm|10|2200|f|22.6||
        OK: At least one user exists.
Step 6: Checking Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) ... 
        OK: Greenbone Security Assistant is present in version 24.0.0~git.
Step 7: Checking if GVM services are up and running ... 
        OK: gvmd service is active.
        OK: gsad service is active.
Step 8: Checking few other requirements...
        OK: nmap is present.
        OK: ssh-keygen found, LSC credential generation for GNU/Linux targets is likely to work.
        OK: nsis found, LSC credential package generation for Microsoft Windows targets is likely to work.
        OK: xsltproc found.
        WARNING: Your password policy is empty.
        SUGGEST: Edit the /etc/gvm/pwpolicy.conf file to set a password policy.
Step 9: Checking greenbone-security-assistant...
        OK: greenbone-security-assistant is installed

It seems like your GVM-23.11.0 installation is OK.

Does anyone have an idea where the problem is and how I can solve it?

Merry Christmas.

Thomas

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Hello,

after 3 days I carried out an sudo apt full upgrade again and then:
sudo gvm-setup
sudo gvm-feed-update
sudo greenbone-feed-sync

Then the error “The Scap Database IS Required” was fixed. The scan works. The input in the settings still does not work. I can’t change anything here. No time zone, password etc. There is always the error “given time_format what invalid”.

I haven’t found any approach on the net here? The keyboard and the time format are configured in German under Kali.

Does anyone have any idea or an approach how I can get closer to the cause?

Thanks.

Thomas

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I would suggest you contact the packet maintainer at Kali, there is nothing we can do here about broken Kali packages … https://bugs.kali.org/my_view_page.php would be a good starting point.

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Thanks for the Info.

Thomas

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Hi. Any update on this issue? I have exact same problem

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The advice above remains true. Please contact the Kali package maintainers for support with for Kali Linux. :slight_smile:

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I try to fix the issue by database, system time but when I want to change time zone in web portal
it cannot change and how Given time_format was invalid
i think is not related to Kali, is related to the web page coding problem.
Please help

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so crazy why always merge post I already mentioned it is not related to Kali…

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You didn’t say that it wasn’t related to Kali, you said you think it’s not related to Kali. That’s not the same thing. Also, you didn’t post any details about your environment. From your post, it sounds like you are using Kali, but you think it’s not related to the underlying OS.

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Is there no solution left? This issue still persists.

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I have not looked at this question because I have installed several times from Kali Linux in the past month and each installation has been flawless. Here are the instructions from our community documentation.

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Allowed values are 12, 24 or system_default. The select box should provide only these values. Not sure why it doesn’t work on Kali.

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Which version of gsad is shipped with Kali currently? The last change on our side for this setting was

which is included in the gsad 24.0.0 release.

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