[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#773318: clamav dies/hangs

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi James,

On 19.12.2014 23:07, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "AC" == Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> writes:
>
> AC> You mean it crashed?
> AC> Please provide excerpts of /var/log/clamav/clamav.log and
> AC> /var/log/syslog from around the time of the crashes.
>
> Yes, the clamd process quit, so the milter process was rejecting all
> incoming mail with a 4xx try again reply.
>
> In each case the last thing logged to clamav.log before I restarted
> clamd was just a
>
>      Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
>
> line.
>
> So it looks like it died during a reload, since:
>
>      Database correctly reloaded
>
> did not get logged.

Indeed. It seems like one of the unofficial signature databases caused 
clamd to crash during reload. It would be great, if you could determine 
which one that was, so that the problem can be reproduced.

> AC> If you can reproduce the crashes, please install clamav-dbg and use
> AC> gdb to provide a backtrace of the crashes.
>
> I removed the clamav-milter call to keep mail flowing; I'll turn it back
> on on one of them this weekend.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Andreas