[Pkg-clamav-devel] A possible bug when upgrading clamav packages today with "Starting ClamAV virus database updater: freshclamERROR: Missing argument for option at line 10" error.

[Scott Kitterman]

That's Bug #741675. Already working on it. 

Scott K

On March 16, 2014 1:55:44 PM EDT, Phillip Pi <philpi at earthlink.net> wrote:
>Dear Sir or Madam:
>
>Hello.
>
>I was just up(grad/dat)ing my Debian stable today and got this "... 
>Starting ClamAV virus database updater: freshclamERROR: Missing
>argument 
>for option at line 10..." error as shown below:
>
># apt-get dist-upgrade
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>Calculating upgrade... Done
>The following packages will be upgraded:
>   clamav clamav-base clamav-freshclam libclamav6
>4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>Need to get 5,472 kB of archives.
>After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
>Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates/main 
>libclamav6 amd64 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2 [4,458 kB]
>Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates/main 
>clamav-base all 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2 [321 kB]
>Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates/main 
>clamav-freshclam amd64 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2 [335 kB]
>Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates/main 
>clamav amd64 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2 [358 kB]
>Fetched 5,472 kB in 5s (1,084 kB/s)
>Retrieving bug reports... Done
>Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
>Reading changelogs... Done
>Preconfiguring packages ...
>(Reading database ... 249048 files and directories currently
>installed.)
>Preparing to replace libclamav6 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u1 (using 
>.../libclamav6_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_amd64.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement libclamav6 ...
>Preparing to replace clamav-base 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u1 (using 
>.../clamav-base_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_all.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement clamav-base ...
>Preparing to replace clamav-freshclam 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u1 (using 
>.../clamav-freshclam_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_amd64.deb) ...
>[ ok ] Stopping ClamAV virus database updater: freshclam.
>Unpacking replacement clamav-freshclam ...
>Preparing to replace clamav 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u1 (using 
>.../clamav_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_amd64.deb) ...
>Unpacking replacement clamav ...
>Processing triggers for man-db ...
>Setting up libclamav6 (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
>Setting up clamav-base (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
>/var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-base.postinst: 403: [: 10: unexpected
>operator
>Replacing config file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf with new version
>Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
>/var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-freshclam.postinst: 353: [: 10: unexpected 
>operator
>Disabling old logrotate script for clamav-freshclam
>Replacing config file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf with new version
>[....] Starting ClamAV virus database updater: freshclamERROR: Missing 
>argument for option at line 10
>ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
>  failed!
>Setting up clamav (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
>localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
>localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
>localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
>localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
>localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
>
>Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
>
>
># cat /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
>
># Automatically created by the clamav-freshclam postinst
># Comments will get lost when you reconfigure the clamav-freshclam
>package
>
>DatabaseOwner clamav
>UpdateLogFile /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
>LogVerbose false
>LogSyslog false
>LogFacility LOG_LOCAL6
>LogFileMaxSize 0
>LogRotate
>LogTime true
>Foreground false
>Debug false
>MaxAttempts 5
>DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav
>DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net
>AllowSupplementaryGroups false
>PidFile /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid
>ConnectTimeout 30
>ReceiveTimeout 30
>TestDatabases yes
>ScriptedUpdates yes
>CompressLocalDatabase no
>Bytecode true
>PrivateMirror 10 clamav-base/PrivateMirror doesn't exist
># Check for new database 24 times a day
>Checks 24
>DatabaseMirror db.local.clamav.net
>DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net
>
># ls -all /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
>-r--r--r-- 1 clamav adm 770 Mar 16 10:50 /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
>
>Is this a bug or something else? Thank you in advance. :)
>
>Sincerely yours,
>Phillip Pi
>
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