[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#824196: Bug#824196: clamav-daemon: clamd crashes daily

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

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