OpenVAS installation and running errors

Question

I've installed Greenbone Security Assistant Version 9.0.1 (OpenVAS) by this instruction on my VirtualBox's Ubuntu 20.4.

sudo apt install postgresql    
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mrazavi/gvm
sudo apt install gvm    
greenbone-nvt-sync
sudo greenbone-scapdata-sync
sudo greenbone-certdata-sync

Unfortunately, it does not works.
When I'm trying to create a task by Wizard, I have the task completed just in moment, with an empty log. And that's all.

I've tried three commands:

systemctl status ospd-openvas # scanner
systemctl status gvmd # manager
systemctl status gsad # web ui

Everything is okay, except ospd-openvas. The status is green and active, but there are some errors too:

Jul 20 15:00:27 alex-VirtualBox ospd-openvas[833]: OSPD - openvas:
ERROR: (ospd_openvas.daemon) Failed to create feed lock file
/var/run/ospd/feed-update.lock. [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/run/ospd/feed-update.lock'

Answer 1

This may help some people with some of the issues I've been facing:

mkdir -p /var/run/ospd/
touch /var/run/ospd/feed-update.lock
chown gvm:gvm /var/run/ospd/feed-update.lock

Answer 2

From the error message it looks like the directory /var/run/ospd/ does not exist.
Create the directory and try to restart the service.

In ubuntu 20.04 /var/run points to /run which is a temporary file system. That means that if you create the directory /var/run/ospd manually, it will be gone after the next reboot. To fix it permanently (in case the missing directory is the issue), please refer to this post.

Answer 3

You can try using

'gvm-feed-update'

it helps updating and syncing all data feeds needed