Hello,

I have installed OpenVAS following the instructions at
http://www.openvas.org/install-packages.html#openvas_debian_obs
("OpenVAS for Debian via OBS") precisely.
Everything installed and seems to be running, yet I am seeing issues.

First, I can not connect to the Greenbone Security Assistant at all.
gsad is running as follows:
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/usr/sbin/gsad --listen=127.0.0.1 --port=9392 --alisten=127.0.0.1
--aport=9393 --mlisten=127.0.0.1 --mport=9390
=======SNIP=======

If I add the '--http-only' argument, I can connect to
http://127.0.0.1:9392/, and it comes up with the login screen.
When I try to log in, it just sits there with openvassd consuming over
80% of CPU at some points.
After about 15 minutes, it will report 'Login failed'.
This happens when I try to log in as the admin users created when
setting up OpenVAS, or as a regular user created with openvas-adduser.
Using gsd yields similar results.

The relevant processes look like this:
=======SNIP=======
2765 ?        Ss     0:00 openvassd: waiting for incoming connections
2807 ?        Rs     1:04 openvassd: serving 127.0.0.1
2864 pts/8    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/openvasmd
--database=/var/lib/openvas/mgr/tasks.db --listen=127.0.0.1
--port=9390 --slisten=127.0.0.1 --sport=9391
2869 pts/8    S      0:00 /usr/sbin/openvasad --listen=127.0.0.1
--port=9393 --users-dir=/var/lib/openvas/users
--scanner-config-file=/etc/openvas/openvassd.conf
--sync-script=/usr/sbin/openvas-nvt-sync
2885 pts/8    Sl     0:00 /usr/sbin/gsad --listen=127.0.0.1
--port=9392 --alisten=127.0.0.1 --aport=9393 --mlisten=127.0.0.1
--mport=9390 --http-only
=======SNIP=======

In openvasmd.log and openvasad.log, I get the following message (with
the timestamps a few seconds apart):
=======SNIP=======
lib  auth:WARNING:2012-07-12 04h58.25 utc:2864: Authentication
configuration could not be loaded.
=======SNIP=======

I tried the same thing in Arch Linux using the instructions provided
by their community, and on Fedora 17, using the instructions at
http://www.openvas.org/install-packages.html#openvas_fedora_atomic
("OpenVAS for Fedora via Atomic") - with the same results.
On Backtrack 5 (which is based on an older version of Ubuntu), things
work as advertised.

Has anybody got OpenVAS to run on a recent Sid installation, or maybe
on Arch Linux?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
 --Juergen
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