[Pkg-clamav-devel] "[FAIL] freshclam: Can not continue with PidFile not set ... failed!"

[Phillip Pi]

Dear Sir or Madam:

I hope this is the right place to ask about my issue. How come I am 
unable to uninstall clamav-freshclam package from my old Debian stable 
machine? I need to uninstall and reinstall it, from scratch, since I am 
having problems with it.

# apt-get purge clamav-freshclam
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   clamav-freshclam*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 552 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 252678 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing clamav-freshclam ...
[FAIL] freshclam: Can not continue with PidFile not set ... failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-freshclam, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing clamav-freshclam (--purge):
  subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 6
Errors were encountered while processing:
  clamav-freshclam
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thank you in advance. :)

Sincerely yours,
Phillip Pi