Thank you for your answer. I downgraded libgnutls on the Arch system from 3.0.21
to 2.10.5 - downgrading Debian would have been a major project.

I can now log in to OpenVAS, and everything seems to be working.

Thank you very much!
 --Juergen


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Sebastien Aucouturier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Please, Check the libgnutls you have ?
> you may see in other posts on forum that openvas encountered trouble with
> libgnutls 2.12.x , better to use 2.10.x
> I hope this help  and that this is the main problem.
> BR
>
> Le 12/07/2012 07:31, Juergen Fiedler a écrit :
>>
>> 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:
>> =======SNIP=======
>> /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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