on our kali system with openvas we invoke "apt-get upgrade" daily. at may 16th the redis installation failed and we could no-longer start the redis-server and therefore we also can not start openvas-scanner. it seems that the installation of the package itself failed.
we have seen - a much larger redis.conf file - a completely new package "redis" (in addition to "redis-server" and "redis-tools")
we also see
- we can start/execute "redis-server" from the cli
- when we start/execute "redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf" it seems to do nothing and returns the prompt immediately
- when we start/execute "systemctl start redis-server" it hangs for several minutes. when we interrupt the command and check "systemctl list-units | grep redis" we see
redis-server.service loaded activating start start Advanced key-value store
â redis-server@openvas.service loaded failed failed Advanced key-value store (openvas)
system-redis\x2dserver.slice loaded active active system-redis\x2dserver.slice
/etc/systemd/system# systemctl status redis-server@openvas.service â redis-server@openvas.service - Advanced key-value store (openvas) Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/redis-server@.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-05-30 14:33:43 CEST; 3min 14s ago Docs: http://redis.io/documentation, man:redis-server(1) Process: 1762 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis-openvas.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
May 30 14:33:43 lwesu0059 systemd[1]: redis-server@openvas.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. May 30 14:33:43 lwesu0059 systemd[1]: redis-server@openvas.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. May 30 14:33:43 lwesu0059 systemd[1]: Stopped Advanced key-value store (openvas). May 30 14:33:43 lwesu0059 systemd[1]: redis-server@openvas.service: Start request repeated too quickly. May 30 14:33:43 lwesu0059 systemd[1]: redis-server@openvas.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 30 14:33:43 lwesu0059 systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced key-value store (openvas).
our environment: root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# cat /etc/*ease DISTRIB_ID=Kali DISTRIB_RELEASE=kali-rolling DISTRIB_CODENAME=kali-rolling DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" ID=kali VERSION="2018.2" VERSION_ID="2018.2" ID_LIKE=debian ANSI_COLOR="1;31" HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/" root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# dpkg -l systemd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=========================================-=========================-=========================-======================================================================================== it systemd 238-4 amd64 system and service manager root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# root@lwesu0059:/etc/systemd/system# dpkg -l redis-server Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=========================================-=========================-=========================-======================================================================================== iF redis-server 5:4.0.9-2 amd64 Persistent key-value database with network interface
Comment From: itamarhaber
Hello @danielmoll1981,
This sounds like an issue w/ the package, rather than with Redis itself. Perhaps @lamby knows what befall.
Comment From: lamby
@danielmoll1981 Hi, Debian maintainer here. Do any of your /var/log/redis log files not tell you something? Alas I don't think your logs above are really telling us anything at the moment beyond "it does not work" :)
(You probably want to file a bug against the Debian package for things like this)
Comment From: itamarhaber
OP unresponsive - closing.