[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#827909: Bug#827909: clamav-freshclam and clamav-daemon not starting after install

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2016-06-22 14:39:50 [+0200], Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> ## The case ##
> 1. "sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam"
> 2. ClamAV doesn't start even though it should.
> 
> $ systemctl status clamav-daemon
> ● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
> Condition: start condition failed at Thu 2016-06-09 11:58:19 EEST; 7min ago
>      Docs: man:clamd(8)
>            man:clamd.conf(5)
>            http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/doc/
this is okay.

> $ systemctl status clamav-freshclam.service
> ● clamav-freshclam.service - ClamAV virus database updater
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>      Docs: man:freshclam(1)
>            man:freshclam.conf(5)
>            http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/doc/
this is not.

> ## The issues ##
> #1 - freshclam not starting after install anymore (works in jessie)
>   => That part is a regression.

why did freshclam not start? An up to date sid:
|root at debsidamd64:/home/bigeasy/deb-clamav# dpkg -i clamav-freshclam_0.99.2+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
|Selecting previously unselected package clamav-freshclam.
|(Reading database ... 47039 files and directories currently installed.)
|Preparing to unpack clamav-freshclam_0.99.2+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ...
|Unpacking clamav-freshclam (0.99.2+dfsg-2) ...
|Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.99.2+dfsg-2) ...
|Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/clamav-freshclam.service → /lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service.
|Processing triggers for systemd (231-1) ...
|Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
|root at debsidamd64:/home/bigeasy/deb-clamav# systemctl status clamav-freshclam.service
|● clamav-freshclam.service - ClamAV virus database updater
|   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
|   Active: active (running) since Wed 2016-08-10 23:53:22 CEST; 5s ago
|     Docs: man:freshclam(1)
|           man:freshclam.conf(5)
|           http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/doc/
| Main PID: 20697 (freshclam)
|   CGroup: /system.slice/clamav-freshclam.service
|           ├─20697 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --foreground=true
|           └─20897 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --foreground=true
|
|Aug 10 23:53:22 debsidamd64 systemd[1]: Started ClamAV virus database updater.
|Aug 10 23:53:22 debsidamd64 freshclam[20697]: ClamAV update process started at Wed Aug 10 23:53:22 2016
|Aug 10 23:53:24 debsidamd64 freshclam[20697]: Downloading main.cvd [100%]

Sebastian