well, if you are running out of time, just kill hanged nasl scripts? with
kill command?

Well, not so sure, but lot of kali users are experiencing problems.

--
Eero

2016-01-22 8:50 GMT+02:00 Alain du Toit <[email protected]>:

> Hi Eero,
>
> I unfortunately cannot run the scan from scratch as I am doing it for a
> customer and the time I have allocated to this project is finished.  I will
> have to try using CentOS in the next vulnerability assessment I do.
>
> Why does OpenVAS run better on CentOS than on Kali?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
> *To:* Alain du Toit <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>; "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, 22 January 2016, 7:40
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Openvas-plugins] Stuck on certain NVT's
>
> Well. this kind of error is a bit hard to debug as need to way to
> reproduce it on other systems.
>
> On my opinion, kali linux is not best platform to run OpenVAS.  Can you
> try same issue on centos 7 with openvas 8 from atomic corp repository?
>
> --
> Eero
>
> 2016-01-21 18:47 GMT+02:00 Alain du Toit <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, it isn't the same process, it's just one of many openvassd processes
> that the system seems to be stuck on or rather it is one of many "sleeping"
> processes related to openvassd.  I started the scan over 20 hours ago and
> it is still running and stuck at 99%.
>
> If I run ps -aux | grep nasl I get the following:
>
>
>
>
>
> *root@kali:~# ps -aux | grep nasl*
>
> root      5670  0.0  0.5 153784 48812 ?        S    Jan20   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.105
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/secpod_ms_office_detection_900025.nasl)
> root      7680  0.0  0.5 151940 45816 ?        S    11:06   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.3.4.180
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_sap_router_detect.nasl)
> root      8685  0.0  0.5 153784 48376 ?        S    16:43   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.105
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/secpod_ms_office_detection_900025.nasl)
> root     22118  0.0  0.6 153916 49376 ?        S    14:56   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.106
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/secpod_ms_office_detection_900025.nasl)
> root     26403  0.0  0.5 151676 45644 ?        S    18:08   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_crux_products_detect.nasl)
> root     26413  0.0  0.5 151808 45744 ?        S    18:08   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_crux_products_detect.nasl)
> root     26590  0.0  0.5 151676 45664 ?        S    18:09   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_open_web_analytics_detect.nasl)
> root     26610  0.0  0.5 151820 45764 ?        S    18:09   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_open_web_analytics_detect.nasl)
> root     26663  0.0  0.5 151940 45916 ?        S    18:09   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/secpod_apache_solr_detect.nasl)
> root     26673  0.0  0.5 151940 45976 ?        S    18:09   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/secpod_apache_solr_detect.nasl)
> root     27938  0.0  0.5 151808 45824 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2012/gb_b2epms_mult_sql_inj_vuln.nasl)
> root     27957  0.0  0.5 151940 45928 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2012/gb_b2epms_mult_sql_inj_vuln.nasl)
> root     28188  0.1  0.5 151676 45724 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_phpwiki_detect.nasl)
> root     28194  0.0  0.5 151808 45816 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_phpwiki_detect.nasl)
> root     28749  0.3  0.5 151940 45976 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_dm_filemanager_detect.nasl)
> root     28771  0.0  0.5 152072 46092 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/gb_dm_filemanager_detect.nasl)
> root     29055  0.0  0.5 153656 48144 ?        S    18:10   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.19
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/2009/secpod_expert_pdf_editorx_activex_vuln.nasl)
> root     29075  0.0  0.0  12660  1624 pts/1    S+   18:10   0:00 grep nasl
> root     32161  0.0  0.5 153920 48956 ?        S    Jan20   0:00
> openvassd: testing 10.1.1.106
> (/var/lib/openvas/plugins/secpod_ms_office_detection_900025.nasl)
>
> *root@kali:~# *
>
>
>
>
>
> If I attach strace to any of the above process, the output I get is: 
> "*futex(0x7fe05ccad620,
> FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL".  *However, process *7680 (the longest
> running process) *has a completely different strace output when attached,
> see below:
>
> select(25, [24], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(25, [24], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(25, [24], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(25, [24], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> select(25, [24], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)
> shutdown(24, SHUT_RDWR)                 = 0
> close(24)                               = 0
> chdir("/")                              = 0
> close(6)                                = 0
> munmap(0x7fe05e6d7000, 4096)            = 0
> sendto(4, "\1\0\1\0", 4, 0, NULL, 0)    = 4
> --- SIGTERM {si_signo=SIGTERM, si_code=SI_USER, si_pid=26707, si_uid=0} ---
> getpgrp()                               = 26668
> rt_sigreturn()                          = 4
> recvfrom(4, "\2\0\1\0", 4, 0, NULL, NULL) = 4
> exit_group(0)                           = ?
> +++ exited with 0 +++
>
> For some reason it completes the strace request.  The other processes
> don't complete, the terminal hangs waiting for something
>
>
>
>
>
> So I am confused.  It seems like some processes run and finish, others are
> waiting for something.  I have a feeling that some processes have
> dependencies in which case they are waiting for things to finish before
> they continue.  If I look at the process ID *7680 *strace output shown
> above, it seems to be referencing another process ID in line 12 of that
> output.
>
> I don't know why this type of scan takes so long.  Why would a scan take
> over 24 hours to complete, the IP count being scanned is only 20 IP's.
>
> Regards,
> Alain
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
> *To:* Alain du Toit <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>; "[email protected]"
> <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 21 January 2016, 17:42
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Openvas-plugins] Stuck on certain NVT's
>
> Well, I am not sure that you attached strace to correct process. This
> process is waiting something?
>
> --
> Eero
>
> 2016-01-21 17:10 GMT+02:00 Alain du Toit <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Eero,
>
> Thanks for the help but I am a bit confused, I am unsure of what I am
> looking at.  Please see the attached output of the strace command...Can you
> make sense of it at all?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Eero Volotinen <[email protected]>
> *To:* Alain du Toit <[email protected]>; "
> [email protected]" <[email protected]>
>
> *Cc:* "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 21 January 2016, 16:06
> *Subject:* Re: [Openvas-plugins] Stuck on certain NVT's
>
> well. it depends on scan config..
>
> try ps aux | grep nasl or similar and attach strace -f -p PID to hanged
> processes to see if something really happends or not.
>
> Eero
>
> 2016-01-21 14:27 GMT+02:00 Alain du Toit <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have an OpenVas scan running, two scans in fact, using the Greenbone
> Security Assistant.  Please see a video I made of where the scan is getting
> stuck at 99%.  This is been for over 18 hours.
>
> Link:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By2fpZO3ahvhTUxkZXNXRkdOc28
>
> Ben from Greenbone suggested I contact your team to try workout why it's
> getting stuck on these NVT's.  These processes in the Linux box are
> sleeping, not running.  So for some reason it has gotten stuck here, some
> assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Here the name of the NVTs that are stuck:
>
> - secpod_ms_office_detection_900025 (x2)
> - gb_sap_router_detect
>
> Thank you...
> Regards,
> Alain
>
>
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