I upgraded from 1.0.8 to 1.2.1, and have no end to troubles, so much so that I am going back to 1.0.8 because I have urgent work to do. In the meantime, please give me your ideas where things went wrong for me.
I installed 1.2.1 using nessus-installer.sh on a Linux 2.2.18pre11-va2.0smp kernel (what shipped with the VA Linux system when we bought it, RedHat 6.2-ish I think). I accepted the defaults, it compiled and installed without error into /usr/local. After installation I ran nessus-update-plugins. I had previously installed 1.0.8 from rpms from the Nessus.org site. Scans give no results. None. Zip. Nada. There is plenty of network activity, and /var/log/nessus/nessusd.messages fills rapidly claiming boatloads of activity is going on.. I first tried to save to NSR, that gave me a zero byte file. I tried to save to NBE, that gave me a file with only "timestamps" lines and no "results" lines (I gathered from another thread that there are these two kinds of lines supposed to be in there). I have tried this from the GUI and also from command line using batch mode. I have all the KB stuff turned off, though I was saving sessions. I am going to try it with session saving off before I give up (does batch mode look at sessions at all?). Another problem has to to with Gdk. I lost results from a session when the GUI crashed at the end: Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x31884da unexpectedly destroyed Gdk-ERROR **: called gdk_window_destroy on a pixmap (use gdk_pixmap_unref) aborting... Aborted (core dumped) The Nessus window was in the background at the time, a Gnome term was in front and I was typing into it. Any hints on where to look for the solutions to these problems is greatly appreciated. Meanwhile, back to 1.0.8. --- "The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." -- Kosh
