[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#577499: Bug#577499: clamav-daemon will not start, even when purged and reinstalled

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Adam John Trickett said:
> It use to work okay, but since the recent upgrade it has stopped working,
> and I can't make it start normally. I've done a purge of all the clamav bits
> and reinstalled and it still refuses to start.
> 
> Config is from virgin install.
> 
> --- data dir ---
> total 78960
> -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav  3875328 May  7 16:43 daily.cld
> -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 22906487 May  7 14:42 main.cvd
> -rw------- 1 clamav clamav      208 May  7 17:43 mirrors.dat

Try getting rid of all but these files, and disable the 3rd party
signature script for now.  It looks like you just don't have enough RAM
to run clamav with all the signatures you have.

Cheers,
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