Package: clamav Version: 0.90.1-3.1lenny2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
This past weekend, freshclam seems to have had serious issues contacting the db mirrors. This would not be a big deal in and of itself, but it seems to have caused a more serious situation to occur. On Sunday morning, the clam daemon exit with a fatal error: Sun May 27 08:18:30 2007 -> SelfCheck: Database modification detected. Forcing reload. Sun May 27 08:18:30 2007 -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav Sun May 27 08:20:40 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database directory (try 1) Sun May 27 08:22:50 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database directory (try 2) Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database directory (try 3) Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> ERROR: reload db failed: Unable to lock database directory Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> Terminating because of a fatal error. Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> Socket file removed. Sun May 27 08:25:00 2007 -> ERROR: Can't unlink the pid file /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid So it seems to me that freshclam had the database locked for updating (for a long time due to the db server connectivity issues), causing the daemon to terminate (and by default there is no cronjob/inittab entry to restart it when it fails). As a result the mail queue this morning had over 14000 messages (where we normally hover around 3000, most of which are failing attempts at sending bounce notices for spam that didn't score high enough to be discarded). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages clamav depends on: ii clamav-freshclam [clama 0.90.1-3.1lenny2 downloads clamav virus databases f ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libclamav2 0.90.1-3.1lenny2 virus scanner library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages clamav recommends: ii arj 3.10.22-2 archiver for .arj files ii clamav-base 0.90.1-3.1lenny2 base package for clamav, an anti-v ii unzoo 4.4-6 zoo archive extractor -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
