[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#775400: clamav-freshclam: freshclam cant download virus definitions

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Sebastian,

On 17.01.2015 00:53, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>>>> -- debconf information:
>>>>>    clamav-freshclam/http_proxy: �
>>>> this looks strange. But it is not your doing, right?
>>>
>>> It seems the debconf setting is corrupted, which is really strange.
>>
>> I will try to test the new d-i for jessie. So maybe I can reproduce
>> this…
>
> I haven't been able to reproduce this on a fresh jessie. I learned
> that Germany has two cities to choose the timezone now.

Büsingen?
That annoyance is supposed to be fixed, see #765976.

> Other than that, everything works as expected.
> As Andreas said, one bug we can fix, the other (freshclam not
> downloading anything) is expected if the proxy is broken. And we have
> currently no idea how that deconf-db and later the freshclam.conf got
> corrupted. But Ulrich's answer in the other email is a little
> unexpected:
>
> |I did nothing manually. Finally i took a look into /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
> |and found a active HTTPProxyServer line right below a FTPproxy line. The
> |FTPproxy line was commented out but HTTPProxyServer was active. Both lines
> |showed strange strings at the end of the line. I simply commented out the
> |HTTPProxyServer line.
>
> If you enter a http proxy via debconf then the config file will look like:
> |# Proxy: host1
> |HTTPProxyServer host1
> so there should be this commented out "Proxy:" line, not "FTPproxy".
> There is no "FTPproxy" string the whole package.

So let's keep this bug report about the /var/lib/clamav ownership issue.
If anyone finds a way to reproduce this HTTPProxyServer problem, please 
open a new bug.

Best regards,
Andreas