Openvas scanner not working

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Openvas scanner not working

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Hi everyone,

i'm new to this so please write in a "noob-friendly" way for me to understand ..
I'm trying to get openvas to work but when i ~# openvas-start i get:
A dependency job for openvas-scanner.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.

And the scanner isn't started.
(● openvas-scanner.service - Open Vulnerability Assessment System Scanner Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openvas-scanner.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:openvassd(8)
http://www.openvas.org/
)

journalctl -xe gives me:

Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #10 0x7ffe353cc860 I resou
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #11 0x7ffe353cc930 b self-
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: == Stack trace for context 0
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #0 0x561a633eee78 i resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #1 0x7ffe353caf80 b resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #2 0x561a633eedf0 i resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #3 0x7ffe353cc440 b resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #4 0x7ffe353cc590 b resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #5 0x7ffe353cc640 b resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #6 0x7ffe353cc6d0 b resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #7 0x7ffe353cc750 I resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali gnome-shell[1086]: Object Clutter.Clone (0x561a67196470), h
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #8 0x7ffe353cc800 b resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #9 0x7ffe353cc860 I resour
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #10 0x7ffe353cc860 I resou
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #11 0x7ffe353cc930 b self-
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali NetworkManager[559]: <info> [1524216435.5028] device (wlan
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali kernel: iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali kernel: iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali NetworkManager[559]: <info> [1524216435.9167] device (wlan
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali NetworkManager[559]: <info> [1524216435.9365] device (wlan
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali wpa_supplicant[631]: wlan0: Reject scan trigger since one i
lines 1328-1350/1350 (END)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #10 0x7ffe353cc860 I resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/tweener.js:183 (0x7f50845cf560 @ 20)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #11 0x7ffe353cc930 b self-hosted:917 (0x7f50845d7ef0 @ 394)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: == Stack trace for context 0x561a630d90a0 ==
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #0 0x561a633eee78 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/tweener.js:80 (0x7f50845c7cd0 @ 82)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #1 0x7ffe353caf80 b resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/tweener.js:105 (0x7f50845c7f78 @ 36)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #2 0x561a633eedf0 i resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/tweener.js:92 (0x7f50845c7de0 @ 52)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #3 0x7ffe353cc440 b resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/tweener/tweener.js:208 (0x7f50845d3918 @ 5
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #4 0x7ffe353cc590 b resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/tweener/tweener.js:337 (0x7f50845d39a0 @ 1
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #5 0x7ffe353cc640 b resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/tweener/tweener.js:350 (0x7f50845d3a28 @ 1
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #6 0x7ffe353cc6d0 b resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/tweener/tweener.js:365 (0x7f50845d3ab0 @ 1
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #7 0x7ffe353cc750 I resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/signals.js:128 (0x7f50845cff78 @ 386)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali gnome-shell[1086]: Object Clutter.Clone (0x561a67196470), has been already finalized. Impossible to set any property to it.
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #8 0x7ffe353cc800 b resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/tweener.js:208 (0x7f50845cf5e8 @ 159)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #9 0x7ffe353cc860 I resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/_legacy.js:82 (0x7f50845b5de0 @ 71)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #10 0x7ffe353cc860 I resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/tweener.js:183 (0x7f50845cf560 @ 20)
Apr 20 10:26:54 kali org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1086]: #11 0x7ffe353cc930 b self-hosted:917 (0x7f50845d7ef0 @ 394)
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali NetworkManager[559]: <info> [1524216435.5028] device (wlan0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to EE:A6:96:36:F3:B2 (scanning)
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali kernel: iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali kernel: iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali NetworkManager[559]: <info> [1524216435.9167] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: ready -> disabled
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali NetworkManager[559]: <info> [1524216435.9365] device (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disabled -> inactive
Apr 20 10:27:15 kali wpa_supplicant[631]: wlan0: Reject scan trigger since one is already pending
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Which i have no idea what to do with.

I hope someone knows how to fix this problem, I'm really frustrated at this point :/
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Re: Openvas scanner not working

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Try upgrading to the branch from the atomic repo, we just added Kali support yesterday:

wget -q -O - https://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | bash

then run openvas-setup
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Re: Openvas scanner not working

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scott wrote:Try upgrading to the branch from the atomic repo, we just added Kali support yesterday:

wget -q -O - https://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | bash

then run openvas-setup

Still the same error, openvas-scanner.service doesn't start :(
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Re: Openvas scanner not working

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Still the same issue that openvas-scanner.service doesn't start
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