[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#823513: Bug#823513: clamav-freshclam: freshclam fails to download daily.cvd and clamav do not start

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2016-05-05 15:52:43 [+0200], Simone Piccardi wrote:
> After installing clamav-freshclam I got these in syslog:
> May  5 15:32:29 jessie freshclam[4851]: ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
> May  5 15:32:29 jessie freshclam[4851]: Giving up on database.clamav.net...
> May  5 15:32:29 jessie freshclam[4851]: Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/doc/mirrors-faq.html for possible reasons.

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> So there is no /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd downloaded and clamav-daemon was 
> not started, silently failing (no trace in syslog also). I just got it 
> because amavis was angry, and then I got the problem with:
> 
> root at jessie:~# systemctl status clamav-daemon
> ● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead) since gio 2016-05-05 15:45:31 CEST; 28s ago
>            start condition failed at gio 2016-05-05 15:45:53 CEST; 6s ago
>            ConditionPathExistsGlob=/var/lib/clamav/daily.{c[vl]d,inc} was not met

yeah. as long as the database is missing you can't start clamd.

> I have jessie-updates in my sources list, and I could just plain take the file 
> with wget, so it's not a network problem.
> 
> I could solve the issue downloading the file with:
> 
> cd /var/lib/clamav/
> wget http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd
> 
> after this clamav-daemon was startable, but the clamav-freshclam package 
> now is just broken, do not work, and the current configuration prevent 
> also clamav-daemon to work.

can you try `freshclam' on the command line and see if it works? It should
work and so should freshclam from cron. It might been a temporary problem.

Sebastian