[Pkg-clamav-devel] help getting clamav working

[Chris Taylor]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:12:36 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> 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

Thanks Scott
Simple question how do I do that?