On 05/21/2010 05:15 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> On 5/21/10 12:16 AM, Török Edwin wrote:
>> On 05/21/2010 08:40 AM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
>>> On 5/20/10 10:27 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
>>>> While testing my build of 0.96.1 today I was alerted by a screen
>>>> message
>>>> on starting clamd that I had two bytecode files - compressed and
>>>> uncompressed. I removed the uncompressed file and restarted clamd.
>>>> Later
>>>> I checked the log to see if there was more information I could add to
>>>> logwatch and there was no reference at all of this event. I'm using
>>>> syslog. That is exactly the kind of information I'd expect to find in
>>>> the log and I guess I wonder why it wasn't there. So, why isn't it
>>>> there?
>>>
>>>
>>> And there's more to the story. In tracking down what happened above I
>>> ran freshclam from the command line and got this:
>>>
>>> $ freshclam
>>> ClamAV update process started at Thu May 20 22:39:04 2010
>>> main.cld is up to date (version: 52, sigs: 704727, f-level: 44, builder:
>>> sven)
>>> daily.cld is up to date (version: 11061, sigs: 81529, f-level: 51,
>>> builder: acab)
>>> Downloading bytecode.cvd [100%]
>>> LibClamAV Error: cli_calloc(): Can't allocate memory (0 bytes).
>>> calloc_problem: Error 0
>>> LibClamAV Error: Out of memory allocating operands
>>
>> I don't get this error, what OS/arch is this?
>>
>>> ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database
>>
>> This message was in freshclam's log though, right?
> 
> This is Solaris 9 on Sparc.

OK, I'll do some tests on Solaris9/Sparc.

Is everything OK on Solaris10/Sparc?

> It was copied from the screen. All that made
> it to the log was "Malformed Database". I removed the database and it
> loaded fine. But - I then downloaded the db with wget and checked it
> with clamscan -d bytecode.cvd and it failed there, too. I deleted the
> bytecode signatures (I'd already had problems with having both a cld and
> cvd file) and then I commented out bytecode support in the clamd and
> freshclam conf files.
> 
> dp
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