Cant start openvas

Hello there

i just installed and gvm-setup this amazing tool but i cant start it:
Job for ospd-openvas.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status ospd-openvas.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

==> systemctl status ospd-openvas.service start

Unit start.service could not be found.
● ospd-openvas.service - OpenVAS Wrapper of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (ospd-openvas)
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ospd-openvas.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-07-22 23:34:38 EDT; 33s ago
Docs: man:ospd-openvas(8)
man:openvas(8)
Process: 11581 ExecStart=/usr/bin/ospd-openvas --unix-socket /run/ospd/ospd.sock --pid-file /run/ospd/ospd-openvas.pid --log-file /var/log/gvm/ospd-openvas.log --lock-file-dir /var/lib/openvas (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 304ms

==> journalctl -xe

Jul 22 23:28:31 kali openvas[11124]: init_openvas: Can not open or create log file or directory. Please check permissions of log files listed in /etc/openvas/openvas_log.conf.
Jul 22 23:28:36 kali openvas[11125]: init_openvas: Can not open or create log file or directory. Please check permissions of log files listed in /etc/openvas/openvas_log.conf.
Jul 22 23:28:41 kali openvas[11135]: init_openvas: Can not open or create log file or directory. Please check permissions of log files listed in /etc/openvas/openvas_log.conf.
Jul 22 23:28:46 kali openvas[11137]: init_openvas: Can not open or create log file or directory. Please check permissions of log files listed in /etc/openvas/openvas_log.conf.
Jul 22 23:28:51 kali openvas[11148]: init_openvas: Can not open or create log file or directory. Please check permissions of log files listed in /etc/openvas/openvas_log.conf.

GVM versions

gsad: Greenbone Security Assistant 21.4.1~dev1
gvmd: Greenbone Vulnerability Manager 21.4.2
openvas-scanner: OpenVAS 21.4.1
gvm-libs: gvm-libs 21.4.1

Environment

Operating system: Kali Linux
Kernel: Linux kali 5.10.0-kali9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-1kali1 (2021-06-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Installation method / source: apt-get install openvas

Did you check which log files are listed in this config? Did you check if the directories in this config file are writable by the user running ospd-openvas? The user should be listed in the systemd service file.

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I had the same issue, but as my user supposedly had the rights to write (at least as far as I could understand) to make things simple I did a

sudo chmod 666 /var/log/gvm/openvas.log

And it solved my issue, it started then

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altu, eres el mejor! Gracias por ayudarme. Si, me funcionó.

Hola @Kritzis Kritzis y bienvenido al foro :slight_smile:

Estoy usando un traductor así que por favor perdona cualquier error. Me alegro de que la solución de altu te haya funcionado y gracias por el seguimiento.

Hello Kritzis and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:
I am using a translator so please forgive any errors. I’m glad altu’s solution worked for you and thank you for following up.

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