[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.

[Phillip Pi]

Thank you, Scott. :)


On 3/16/2014 10:59 AM PT, Scott Kitterman typed:

> 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