The error message was: data/DSA/list:1: expected DSA record, got: '[1 Sep 2007] DSA-1366-1 clamav\n' Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'apsw.Connection' object has no attribute 'close'" in <bound method DB.__del__ of <security_db.DB instance at 0x3ac9eeac>> ignored make: *** [all] Error 1