[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#942172: clamav-daemon: After upgrade, clamd cannon create /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl and stop.

[Filipe Fonseca]

Hello,

I can test it but probably only in half a day time or so. I'll get back to 
you then. Many thanks.

Regards,
Filipe

On October 13, 2019 09:33:17 Hugo Lefeuvre <hle at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Filipe,
>
>> I did strike this in three boxes. Straight upgrade but opted not to touch
>> config when asked. Don't know if it matters. However I did not find any
>> reference to /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d/extend.conf in the
>> package scripts as in stretch.
>>
>> The chown did make the difference. And the extend.conf prior to the upgrade
>> on further two boxes got the upgrade working, AFAICT.
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> After further investigations, I have found a probable cause for this issue:
> debian/patches/clamd_dont_depend_on_clamav_demon_socket.patch was
> mistakenly backported from the stretch upload.
>
> This should not have been backported, because the jessie package is still
> providing the systemd socket, which was removed from the stretch package in
> 0.99.2+dfsg-3 because of #824042[0].
>
> I did not backport this removal because I considered it too intrusive for a
> security upload. Looking back, this was maybe a mistake because it
> increased the complexity of the backport.
>
> I have prepared a regression update addressing this issue. It would be a
> true benefit for the quality of this upload if somebody could give it a try
> before I go on with uploading. You can find (UNRELEASED) amd64 builds,
> signed by myself on my Debian webpage:
>
> https://people.debian.org/~hle/lts/clamav/
>
> regards,
> Hugo
>
> [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824042
>
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