[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#904111: clamav-daemon causing deadlocks/blocking I/O

[Scott Kitterman]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:42:35 -0800 Adam Lambert <linuxjack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, so I think you may have the winner.   I set my temp directory to be
> something other than /tmp, and turned ClamAV back on, and it's been running
> for about an hour now with  no obvious ill effects.   I will report back if
> something else crops up, but I think this may solve it.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:31 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
> <sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
> 
> > On 2018-11-19 21:01:07 [+0100], To Adam Lambert wrote:
> > > On 2018-11-12 10:17:32 [-0800], Adam Lambert wrote:
> > > > I believe I already supplied all that way back when I opened up this
> > bug
> > > > report.   But for reference, here it is again:
> > >
> > > I tried it back then with no luck. Thanks for the info. I will try to
> > > reproduce this asap and get back to you.
> >
> > Okay. It triggers. This
> >
> >         OnAccessIncludePath /tmp
> >
> > seems to be the root of all evil. Removing this option or adding
> >
> >         TemporaryDirectory /var/tmp/
> >
> > seems to make it go away. So I *think* the problem is that clamav makes
> > temporary files during scanning which in turn it tries to scan and
> > blocks itself.
> > Can you acknowledge the behaviour?

Now that there's a clear work-around, I don't think this is critical.  I'll 
downgrade to important.

Scott K