I've got a strange problem I've not come across before. To add to the fun, an identical setup works fine and doesn't experience the problem I'm battling on this particular box.

Setup:
- Solaris 10 sparc on a Netra X1 (SUNW,UltraAX-i2) with 2GB RAM
- Nessus 2.2.5 + lib + plugins + libnasl for SunOS
- Installed as part of blastwave.org's (unstable tree) pre-compiled binaries

The situation:
- downloads
- installs
- mkcerts and addusers
- registers with nessus-fetch
- updates plugins
- nessusd verifies plugins
- nessusd starts
- nessus gtk client starts (exported to laptop via ssh -Y)
- configure scan
- hit "start"
- "Scanning network from localhost" window pops up...

...and then nothing. It just sits there. It should start loading the host/hosts it's scanning in said window like it normally will. Tried any number of scan options and can't get it to start loading hosts (or just a single host).

Connecting across the network (rather than exporting from localhost) from my laptop's 2.2.5 client produces the same results. Connecting it to other servers works fine - it's just this one.

nessusd.messages logs:
[Wed Oct  5 09:58:35 2005][21618] connection from 127.0.0.1
[Wed Oct  5 09:58:36 2005][21620] Client requested protocol version 12.
[Wed Oct  5 09:58:36 2005][21620] successful login of root from 127.0.0.1
[Wed Oct 5 10:01:31 2005][21620] user username : session will be saved as /opt/csw/var/nessus/users/username/sessions/20051005-100131-index [Wed Oct 5 10:01:32 2005][21620] user username starts a new scan. Target(s) : machine-name, with max_hosts = 20 and max_checks = 10 [Wed Oct 5 10:01:32 2005][21620] user username : testing machines-name (IP-address) [21622]

and then 20051005-100131-index logs:
machine-name

And that's all that's logged. What's strange is the other Solaris 10 X1 is almost a mirror image (can't think of anything different, but obviously something is) and works a-ok. Nearly time to start tracing and sniffing unless someone has a better idea?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Day
Network Security Administrator
Toll Corporate IT
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