Hello list. having upgraded to the current version 0.96.1 on a Suse Linux 10.3 the clamd daemon won't start. I get the same error other users have described some time ago:
================== Tue May 25 15:57:27 2010 -> +++ Started at Tue May 25 15:57:27 2010 Tue May 25 15:57:27 2010 -> clamd daemon 0.96.1 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: i386, CPU: i686) Tue May 25 15:57:27 2010 -> Log file size limit disabled. Tue May 25 15:57:27 2010 -> Reading databases from /usr/local/share/clamav Tue May 25 15:57:27 2010 -> Not loading PUA signatures. Tue May 25 15:57:34 2010 -> Loaded 787256 signatures. Tue May 25 15:57:34 2010 -> LOCAL: Unix socket file /tmp/clamd.socket Tue May 25 15:57:34 2010 -> LOCAL: Setting connection queue length to 15 Tue May 25 15:57:34 2010 -> ERROR: daemonize() failed Tue May 25 15:57:34 2010 -> Closing the main socket. Tue May 25 15:57:34 2010 -> Socket file removed. =================== In some other thread was a hint to "inusufficient memory2 but in my machine there seems a lot free: =================== h830101:/var/log # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 5122676 kB MemFree: 4886028 kB Buffers: 0 kB Cached: 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 0 kB Inactive: 0 kB HighTotal: 3068392 kB HighFree: 3068392 kB LowTotal: 2054284 kB LowFree: 1817636 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 0 kB Mapped: 236648 kB Slab: 0 kB PageTables: 0 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 0 kB Committed_AS: 420200 kB VmallocTotal: 0 kB VmallocUsed: 0 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB ========================== Where to look now? Mike _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
