On Thu, 26 May 2011 00:55:57 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011 11:08:36 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> You can try to manually download the "bytecode.cvd" and then restart >> the clamd daemon. > > I've not tried it since, first, I have no idea would to do with the damn > thing after download ( :-> ), You had to drop the file under "/var/lib/clamav". > and, second, as far as I could see from > the debug output freshclam did not have any trouble to download it. > Rather it was failing attempting to read it. The downloaded file could have been corrupted somehow although the download process went fine :-) >> Are you behind some kind of proxy? > > No proxy. > > And finally here how I resolved the problem. > > I compared /var/lib/clamav folders content in Squeeze and in Lucid. I > found in Lucid bytecode.cld file which was missing in Squeeze. I gave it > a try just copying bytecode.cld to Squeeze, and clamav started working > as a good boy. Yep, that file (bytecode.cld) is present in my Lenny system. > So, it looks to me like Squeeze clamav package has a bug. It either does > not configure clamav upon installation properly or simply missing some > file/s in package. AKAIK, that file is not provided by Debian but from ClamAV servers when you run the update routine. Maybe something went wrong at your side, maybe a bad mirror with wrong data? :-? > Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me > BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything wrong > with my posting. I'm new to Debian community and willing to learn. :-) You're welcome, but no replies usually means that no one is experiencing the same behaviour and that can indicate indeed you were having a localized problem with a concrete mirror :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.26.11.36...@gmail.com
