[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#824196: Bug#824196: clamav-daemon: clamd crashes daily
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Fri May 13 19:35:07 UTC 2016
On 2016-05-13 09:43:24 [-0600], Will Aoki wrote:
> After upgrading from 0.98.7+dfsg-0+deb7u1 to 0.99+dfsg-0+deb7u2 two
> months ago, clamd on one of our servers has crashed approximately daily.
> It's rarely stayed running for more than 24 hours.
>
> Before crashing, the daemon spews the message
>
> accept() failed:
This is it? Nothing more? There should be an error message included
after the colon.
> The kernel is not reporting segfaults or OOM.
Correct. Based on the source code the `accapt()' function failed and
therefore the daemon terminated.
> On this particular server, clamd is used by clamav-milter. A Nagios
> check script also runs clamdscan about every five minutes against a CAB,
> an EXE, a bzip2'd EXE and a zip file that alll contain
> "Clamav.Test.File-6". As of a Monday (long after the problem starte),
> the script has started scanning another file we've had false-positive
> problems with.
You mean you gave a "normal" file and it was reported as a virus?
Sebastian
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