[Pkg-clamav-devel] help getting clamav working

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:19:42 +0000 (UTC) Chris Taylor 
<chris.j.taylor at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:25:57 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me what this means and how top fix and have clamav
>> working
>> 
>> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:47:39 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
>> 
>>> chris at chris-desktop:~$ clamscan
>>> LibClamAV Error: cli_loadmd5: Malformed MD5 string at line 595
>>> LibClamAV Error: cli_loadmd5: Problem parsing database at line 595
>>> LibClamAV Error: Can't load daily.mdb: Malformed database LibClamAV
>>> Error: cli_tgzload: Can't load daily.mdb LibClamAV Error: Can't load
>>> /var/lib/clamav//daily.cld: Malformed database ERROR: Malformed
>>> database
>>> 
>>> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
>>> Known viruses: 219
>>> Engine version: 0.95.3
>>> Scanned directories: 0
>>> Scanned files: 0
>>> Infected files: 0
>>> Data scanned: 0.00 MB
>>> Data read: 0.00 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
>>> Time: 0.007 sec (0 m 0 s)
>>> ---------------------------
>>> Ubuntu 9.01 karmic
>
>More info
>
>[sudo] password for chris: 
>ClamAV update process started at Tue Dec 15 22:11:15 2009
>main.cvd is up to date (version: 51, sigs: 545035, f-level: 42, builder: 
>sven)
>Downloading daily-10173.cdiff [100%]
>ERROR: cdiff_cmd_close: Not all DEL/XCHG have been executed
>ERROR: cdiff_apply: Can't execute command CLOSE
>ERROR: cdiff_apply: Error executing command at line 44
>ERROR: getpatch: Can't apply patch
>WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
>Downloading daily.cvd [100%]
>daily.cvd updated (version: 10175, sigs: 129117, f-level: 44, builder: 
>arnaud)
>Database updated (674152 signatures) from db.local.clamav.net (IP: 
>193.1.193.64)
>WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/run/
>clamav/clamd.ctl
>connect(): No such file or directory

It sounds like this is due to some corruption on your system.  If this is 
the only package you are having trouble with, I would purge (not remove) 
all your clamav packages and reinstall them.

Scott K