Nmap -sV scans not working

[l4rm4nd]

Hi, running nmap with the the -sV flag does not work.

Example nmap command:

nmap -sS -Pn -sV -p 80 scanme.org

Produces the following error:

NSE: failed to initialize the script engine:
could not locate nse_main.lua
stack traceback:
        [C]: in ?

QUITTING!

According to the Internet a fix would be to install the following additional package:

nmap-scripts

Might be a considerable change, in order to make nmap fully functional.

[KamranAzeem]

I will look into it as soon as I have some time. Hopefully it will be done soon.

[KamranAzeem]

Added nmap-scripts. It works now.

[kamran@kworkhorse tmp]$ docker pull praqma/network-multitool:extra
extra: Pulling from praqma/network-multitool
4e9f2cdf4387: Already exists 
2161da2e90f1: Pull complete 
4d0304ad3b7b: Pull complete 
ad8a23f4f5b4: Pull complete 
1a1d52bd9973: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:d89cd23fc8a02f741c12551b83958e9b3a3b155d451cf9b814708e39534be56a
Status: Downloaded newer image for praqma/network-multitool:extra
docker.io/praqma/network-multitool:extra

[kamran@kworkhorse tmp]$ docker run --rm -it  praqma/network-multitool:extra /bin/bash
The directory /usr/share/nginx/html is not mounted.
Over-writing the default index.html file with some useful information.

bash-5.1# nmap -sS -Pn -sV -p 80 scanme.org
Host discovery disabled (-Pn). All addresses will be marked 'up' and scan times will be slower.
Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-10-19 11:00 UTC
Nmap scan report for scanme.org (45.33.32.156)
Host is up (0.20s latency).
Other addresses for scanme.org (not scanned): 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe18:bb2f
rDNS record for 45.33.32.156: scanme.nmap.org

PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.7 ((Ubuntu))

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 9.38 seconds
bash-5.1# 

[l4rm4nd]

Many thanks for your fast replies and the actual fix.