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GVM-11 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
Login is normal. but any test is report error.
What is detail err I can see?
I can check the status of greenbone daemons with systemctl:
systemctl status ospd-openvas # scanner
systemctl status gvmd # manager
systemctl status gsad # web ui
This is the GSE (Greenbone Source Edition), not the Greenbone Community Edition (GCE) VM. Moving into the correct category.
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You have to take a look at the last report of the task for getting more details about the error.
You are not looking at the latest report. You are looking at the task details…
can you give me a screencap?
It means the gvmd daemon could not connect to the ospd-openvas daemon. Most likely ospd-openvas is not running or listening on a different unix socket.
You are seeming to use some provided packages therefore please refer to the author of this packages.
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did you solve this problem - I have the same one 
I receive the same error. After installing GVM 11 on Ubuntu 20.04, the scan works perfect. After a restart or update, I below errors:
then error that shows “Could not connect to scanner” Is there a fix?
Okay i found the solution of, in my case, the problem.
I followed the installation of kifarunix : https://kifarunix.com/install-and-setup-gvm-11-on-ubuntu-20-04/
Just do that :
gvmd --modify-scanner={replace by ID of your openvas scanner] --scanner-host=/opt/gvm/var/run/ospd.sock
You can see your openvas scanner with this command :
sudo -Hiu gvm gvmd --get-scanners
Good luck !
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This step is now also documented since a few months in the INSTALL instructions:
The resolution to this problem for me was to run gvm-setup once more. It did something with “Modifying Default Scanner” that resolved my issue.
Specifically, the order of operations that worked for me was:
- gvm-setup (initial setup)
- gvm-start
- sudo runuser -u _gvm – gvmd --create-user= --password=
- gvm-setup
As frakman1 stated, I then checked Configuration->Scanners, and then under “actions” checked “Validate” for all scanners and was good to go.
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@edward2k6 Thanks for posting this information.
I have split this post from the original topic in the Greenbone Professional Edition category.
gvm-setup is a script provided by a 3rdparty maintainer in their packages and not provided / maintained by Greenbone. This script isn’t available on the Greenbone Professional Editions like e.g. the GSM or the GSM TRIAL so this solution wasn’t applicable for that category.