I recently experienced this as well, openvassd not starting.. just hanging and nothing being logged. This was the result of starting a few jobs too many and some just hanging.. I eventually used kill -9 to end and restart everything. An strace showed it halted while doing something with redis so I flushed it using:
redis-cli -s /var/run/redis/redis.sock flushall It had to rebuild the database but it worked just fine again after that. Thijs Stuurman Security Operations Center | KPN Internedservices [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> T: +31(0)299476185 | M: +31(0)624366778 PGP Key-ID: 0x16ADC048 (https://pgp.surfnet.nl/) Fingerprint: 2EDB 9B42 D6E8 7D4B 6E02 8BE5 6D46 8007 16AD C048 W: https://www.internedservices.nl<https://www.internedservices.nl/> | L: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/thijsstuurman Van: Openvas-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Harsh kapadia Verzonden: woensdag 28 juni 2017 20:19 Aan: Christian Fischer <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [Openvas-discuss] openVAS scanner service timing out Hi Christian, Yes, actually the openvassd.log did not show anything. I waited and retried deleting the redis dump file and restarting the service. This resolved the issue! The service started and is scanning successfully now. Thanks a lot for your help! Regards, Harsh On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Christian Fischer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, On 28.06.2017 18:56, Harsh kapadia wrote: > Hi, > > There seems to be enough memory. > [root@etvas8r4 ~]# free > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 3882052 1497340 721696 102084 1663016 > 1941572 > Swap: 4063228 239012 3824216 > [root@etvas8r4 ~]# > > The logs dont display anything new - attached openvasmd.log file this is the manager logfile (openvasMd) which probably doesn't contain any information as you have an issue with the scanner (openvasSd). > Also, tried and tested deleting the redis dump and restarted services. > Still no luck. The scanner service is still getting stuck. > > Regards, > Harsh > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Christian Fischer > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > On 28.06.2017 17:14, Harsh kapadia wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running openVAS 9 and the openvas scanner service is timing out - > > because of this, I cannot run reports. > > > > The openvas-check-setup show everything is OK. Below is the error > I see > > when the services dont start up: > > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start openvas-scanner.service.service > > Job for openvas-scanner.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. > > See "systemctl status openvas-scanner.service" and "journalctl > -xe" for > > details. > > > > Have attached the "journalctl - xe " output as well. > > > > Please suggest on this. There's no further info available online > > regarding this issue. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > Harsh > > most likely the known issue where redis is blocking any access by the > scanner due to unknown reasons. This should do the trick: > > 1. Delete dump.rdb (somewhere in /var/run/redis or similar) > 2. Comment out/remove all "save xy z" (e.g. save 900 1) from your > redis.conf > 3. restart redis > 4. restart scanner and try again -- Christian Fischer | PGP Key: 0x54F3CE5B76C597AD Greenbone Networks GmbH | http://greenbone.net Neumarkt 12, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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