Ospd-openvas & gsad are inactive (dead)

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Hi everyone !!

I’ve installed OpenVAS v23.8.2 on Ubuntu 22.04 using this guide and during the process I didn’t get any errors at all !

At the end of the process when I tried to start all 4 services I got the following errors for the two of them :

ubuntu@fb-openvas:/$ sudo systemctl status ospd-openvas
sudo systemctl status gsad
○ ospd-openvas.service - OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas)
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/ospd-openvas.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2024-09-11 16:40:51 UTC; 1min 4s ago
   Main PID: 84989 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 2.558s

Sep 11 16:40:47 fb-openvas systemd[1]: Started OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas).
Sep 11 16:40:49 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[85008]: OSPD[84989] INFO: (ospd.main) Starting OSPd OpenVAS version 22.7.1.
Sep 11 16:40:50 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[85008]: OSPD[84989] INFO: (ospd.main) Shutting-down server ...
Sep 11 16:40:51 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 11 16:40:51 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Consumed 2.558s CPU time.
○ gsad.service - Greenbone Security Assistant daemon (gsad)
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gsad.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2024-09-11 16:40:48 UTC; 1min 7s ago
   Main PID: 84998 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 101ms

Sep 11 16:40:48 fb-openvas systemd[1]: Started Greenbone Security Assistant daemon (gsad).
Sep 11 16:40:48 fb-openvas systemd[1]: gsad.service: Deactivated successfully.

I’ve tried almost everything but nothing seems to work or fix the issue.
Thanks in advanced for the helpers !!

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You can use journalctl to troubleshoot why the services shutdown instead of continuing to run. Maybe caused by a misconfiguration or memory exhaustion.

journalctl -u ospd-openvas.service
journalctl -u gsad.service

If you having trouble managing the source-code install, you can try the Greenbone Free virtual machine, which will take some of the effort out of maintaining an instance of Greenbone.

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Hi @rippledj, thanks for replying !!
It seems like the errors coming from ‘ospd-openvas.service’ are :

Sep 09 16:31:30 fb-openvas systemd[1]: Failed to start OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas).
Sep 09 16:31:30 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Consumed 1.546s CPU time.
Sep 09 16:32:30 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Sep 09 16:32:30 fb-openvas systemd[1]: Stopped OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas).
Sep 09 16:32:30 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Consumed 1.546s CPU time.
Sep 09 16:32:32 fb-openvas systemd[1]: Starting OSPd Wrapper for the OpenVAS Scanner (ospd-openvas)...
Sep 09 16:32:59 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 09 16:32:59 fb-openvas systemd[1]: ospd-openvas.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 1198, in get_connection
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     if connection.can_read():
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 734, in can_read
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     return self._parser.can_read(timeout)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 321, in can_read
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     return self._buffer and self._buffer.can_read(timeout)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 230, in can_read
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     self._read_from_socket(timeout=timeout,
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 201, in _read_from_socket
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     raise ConnectionError(SERVER_CLOSED_CONNECTION_ERROR)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: redis.exceptions.ConnectionError: Connection closed by server.
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 559, in connect
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     sock = self._connect()
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 911, in _connect
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     sock.connect(self.path)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/bin/ospd-openvas", line 8, in <module>
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     sys.exit(main())
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd_openvas/daemon.py", line 1264, in main
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     daemon_main('OSPD - openvas', OSPDopenvas, NotusParser())
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd/main.py", line 165, in main
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     daemon.run()
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd/ospd.py", line 1115, in run
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     self.scheduler()
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd_openvas/daemon.py", line 723, in scheduler
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     self.check_feed()
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd_openvas/daemon.py", line 697, in check_feed
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     current_feed = self.nvti.get_feed_version()
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd_openvas/nvticache.py", line 84, in get_feed_version
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     return OpenvasDB.get_single_item(self.ctx, NVTI_CACHE_NAME)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd_openvas/db.py", line 274, in get_single_item
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     return ctx.lindex(name, index)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/client.py", line 1939, in lindex
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     return self.execute_command('LINDEX', name, index)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/client.py", line 898, in execute_command
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     conn = self.connection or pool.get_connection(command_name, **options)
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 1202, in get_connection
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     connection.connect()
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/redis/connection.py", line 563, in connect
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     raise ConnectionError(self._error_message(e))
Sep 09 17:57:44 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: redis.exceptions.ConnectionError: Error 2 connecting to unix socket: /run/redis/redis.sock. No such file or d>
Sep 09 17:57:45 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: Exception ignored in atexit callback: <function exit_cleanup at 0x7f2a9d950040>
Sep 09 17:57:45 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 09 17:57:45 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ospd/main.py", line 86, in exit_cleanup
Sep 09 17:57:45 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]:     sys.exit()
Sep 09 17:57:45 fb-openvas ospd-openvas[33198]: SystemExit:

while the service gsad.service has no errors.

Also, I’m currently trying the OVA if thats gonna work that might be even better than fixing the server !

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The logs indicate that OSPd is trying to connect to Redis through a Unix socket (/run/redis/redis.sock), but the socket file is missing (No such file or directory). This suggests that the Redis service, which OSPd relies on, is either not running or is misconfigured.

Sure, I recommend running the virtual machine for ease of use. :slight_smile:

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Geez bruh, it worked !
I had to the same thing pretty much to the rest of the errors popped out and it fixed the issue !!

Much much much appreciated !