Receiving error when trying to run openvassd

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Hello,

I keep receiving the following error when trying to run openvassd via /usr/sbin.

“Error while loading shared libraries: libopenvas_nasl.so.9: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory”

I am a complete rookie when it comes to OpenVas and I was given the task to update our instance to the latest version. We were on 7.0.2, and i believe its the GCE edition, not entirely sure honestly.

I found an article stating to the following via cli:

  • /usr/sbin/greenbone-nvt-sync
  • /usr/sbin/greenbone-certdata-sync
  • /usr/sbin/greenbone-scapdata-sync
  • /usr/sbin/openvasmd –update –verbose –progress
  • /etc/init.d/openvas-manager restart
  • /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner restart

Once I did the -update -verbose part, after completion there was no openvas-manager in /etc/init.d/. I checked the version and it was still 7.02. Then i tried the following command yum install open vas. Which didnt seem to work and only make things worse. It said openvas packages were available but none actually installed so i force installed libraries (openvas-libraries-9.0.1). I’m basically stuck as i have come across no solution to manually installing the missing shared library the error is displaying.

On top of this i made the mistake of not making a backup of our working instance, so as of right now we dont have an openvas instance working.

Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you!

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This error means you don’t have openvas-libraries installed. Personally I would start from scratch and install OpenVAS/GVM from a single package source.

Therefore please contact the distributor of your OpenVAS/GVM packages on howto install and setup OpenVAS/GVM.

The Greenbone Community Edition (GCE) is a virtual machine directly provided by Greenbone. You are using packages from a third party (Greenbone doesn’t provide packages for any distribution) therefore you are using the Greenbone Source Edition (GSE).

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Bricks,

Thank you for the reply. Is there any other way around this? Our instance was preconfigured specifically, to which i don’t have the details for so starting from scratch could be a pain. Is there no way to manually download the libraries?

Also when i point to Lib 64 folder it looks like there is various libraries present, just not the libopenvas_nasl one.

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I am sorry Greenbone doesn’t support nor provide any packages for distributions. Neither do I have any knowledge about yum and rpm based distros at all. So it’s best to contact your distibution/package maintainer.

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Bricks,

Thanks for all your help. So I stood up a brand new instance of Openvas OS version 4.3.14. I followed the directions for the “virtual appliance” install and got the web interface up and running. However when i go to log in, it displays this message at the top: “Warning: SecInfo Database Missing SCAP and/or CERT database missing on OMP server”. When I try to run a scans they display no data whatsoever. Could this be due to the Warning error i am receiving? Thanks.

Jay

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Yes it may take some time to update the secinfo data from the feed. You can’t run scans without having synced nvts from the feed.