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got similar problem today
found these similar problem links:
http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/2015-July/008222.html
https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=2591
no solution...

Ok, I found the root cause, someone on openvas mail-list give me this link:
https://svn.wald.intevation.org/svn/openvas/trunk/openvas-manager/INSTALL -> "Updating Scanner Certificates"

the reason...

well with my reinstall, the scanner can not connect to redis now..
it seems no package contains file /etc/openvas/openvassd.conf which set the redis socket path..
manually create this file and add...

well, this works..

removed all contents in directories named openvas found in the system, except for those in metasploit
ran apt-get install --reinstall with dpkg option --force-confmiss for all...

I have replaced some timestamp in log content with XXXX-XX-XX XXhXX.XX UTC:XXXX, because the forum has a silly firewall which will prevent me from submitting this post if I don't do this

I run a...