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

[Dr A. J. Trickett]

On Saturday 08 May 2010, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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.
> 

Okay, I purged my database of sane security filters and other stuff, and it 
reloaded okay. I then added back just a fresh set of sane security filters and 
it also restarted. I don't know if it was an old/broken filter set that was 
the problem or it was just on the knife edge for memory but it is working at 
the moment.

Regarding the bug, I don't know what to say, other than perhaps the package 
documentation should say you need plenty of RAM and and it may not be 
appropriate for people using a VM with only limited RAM.

Thanks for taking the time to respond and help me fix my problem, I only wish 
every package maintainer was as helpful.


-- 
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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