Hey,
What do you make of this error with upgrade while running stable on amd64:
It should be upgrading 0.97.6 to 0.97.7.
# aptitude safe-upgrade clamav-base
Resolving dependencies...
open: 2; closed: 2; defer: 0; conflict: 0
The following packages will be upgraded:
clamav-daemon
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
clamav clamav-base
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/753 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
export: 259: DatabaseOwner
UpdateLogFile
LogVerbose
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogFileMaxSize
LogTime
Foreground
Debug
MaxAttempts
DatabaseDirectory
DNSDatabaseInfo
AllowSupplementaryGroups
PidFile
ConnectTimeout
ReceiveTimeout
TestDatabases
ScriptedUpdates
CompressLocalDatabase
Bytecode
Checks
DatabaseMirror
DatabaseMirror: bad variable name
clamav-freshclam failed to preconfigure, with exit status 2
(Reading database ... 45538 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace clamav-daemon 0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1 (using
.../clamav-daemon_0.97.7+dfsg-1~squeeze1_amd64.deb) ...
export: 283: LocalSocket
FixStaleSocket
LocalSocketGroup
LocalSocketMode
OLE2BlockMacros
User
AllowSupplementaryGroups
ScanMail
ScanArchive
ArchiveBlockEncrypted
MaxDirectoryRecursion
FollowDirectorySymlinks
FollowFileSymlinks
ReadTimeout
MaxThreads
MaxConnectionQueueLength
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogClean
LogVerbose
PidFile
DatabaseDirectory
SelfCheck
Foreground
Debug
ScanPE
ScanOLE2
ScanHTML
DetectBrokenExecutables
ExitOnOOM
LeaveTemporaryFiles
AlgorithmicDetection
ScanELF
IdleTimeout
PhishingSignatures
PhishingScanURLs
PhishingAlwaysBlockSSLMismatch
PhishingAlwaysBlockCloak
DetectPUA
ScanPartialMessages
HeuristicScanPrecedence
StructuredDataDetection
LogFile: bad variable name
invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-daemon, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status
2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
export: 283: LocalSocket
FixStaleSocket
LocalSocketGroup
LocalSocketMode
OLE2BlockMacros
User
AllowSupplementaryGroups
ScanMail
ScanArchive
ArchiveBlockEncrypted
MaxDirectoryRecursion
FollowDirectorySymlinks
FollowFileSymlinks
ReadTimeout
MaxThreads
MaxConnectionQueueLength
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogClean
LogVerbose
PidFile
DatabaseDirectory
SelfCheck
Foreground
Debug
ScanPE
ScanOLE2
ScanHTML
DetectBrokenExecutables
ExitOnOOM
LeaveTemporaryFiles
AlgorithmicDetection
ScanELF
IdleTimeout
PhishingSignatures
PhishingScanURLs
PhishingAlwaysBlockSSLMismatch
PhishingAlwaysBlockCloak
DetectPUA
ScanPartialMessages
HeuristicScanPrecedence
StructuredDataDetection
LogFile: bad variable name
invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-daemon, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/clamav-daemon_0.97.7+dfsg-1~squeeze1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
export: 283: LocalSocket
FixStaleSocket
LocalSocketGroup
LocalSocketMode
OLE2BlockMacros
User
AllowSupplementaryGroups
ScanMail
ScanArchive
ArchiveBlockEncrypted
MaxDirectoryRecursion
FollowDirectorySymlinks
FollowFileSymlinks
ReadTimeout
MaxThreads
MaxConnectionQueueLength
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogClean
LogVerbose
PidFile
DatabaseDirectory
SelfCheck
Foreground
Debug
ScanPE
ScanOLE2
ScanHTML
DetectBrokenExecutables
ExitOnOOM
LeaveTemporaryFiles
AlgorithmicDetection
ScanELF
IdleTimeout
PhishingSignatures
PhishingScanURLs
PhishingAlwaysBlockSSLMismatch
PhishingAlwaysBlockCloak
DetectPUA
ScanPartialMessages
HeuristicScanPrecedence
StructuredDataDetection
LogFile: bad variable name
invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-daemon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Preparing to replace clamav-freshclam 0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1 (using
.../clamav-freshclam_0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1_amd64.deb) ...
export: 266: DatabaseOwner
UpdateLogFile
LogVerbose
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogFileMaxSize
LogTime
Foreground
Debug
MaxAttempts
DatabaseDirectory
DNSDatabaseInfo
AllowSupplementaryGroups
PidFile
ConnectTimeout
ReceiveTimeout
TestDatabases
ScriptedUpdates
CompressLocalDatabase
Bytecode
Checks
DatabaseMirror
DatabaseMirror: bad variable name
invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-freshclam, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status
2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
export: 266: DatabaseOwner
UpdateLogFile
LogVerbose
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogFileMaxSize
LogTime
Foreground
Debug
MaxAttempts
DatabaseDirectory
DNSDatabaseInfo
AllowSupplementaryGroups
PidFile
ConnectTimeout
ReceiveTimeout
TestDatabases
ScriptedUpdates
CompressLocalDatabase
Bytecode
Checks
DatabaseMirror
DatabaseMirror: bad variable name
invoke-rc.d: initscript clamav-freshclam, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/clamav-freshclam_0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
export: 259: DatabaseOwner
UpdateLogFile
LogVerbose
LogSyslog
LogFacility
LogFileMaxSize
LogTime
Foreground
Debug
MaxAttempts
DatabaseDirectory
DNSDatabaseInfo
AllowSupplementaryGroups
PidFile
ConnectTimeout
ReceiveTimeout
TestDatabases
ScriptedUpdates
CompressLocalDatabase
Bytecode
Checks
DatabaseMirror
DatabaseMirror: bad variable name
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/clamav-daemon_0.97.7+dfsg-1~squeeze1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/clamav-freshclam_0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up clamav-base (0.97.7+dfsg-1~squeeze1) ...
^Cdpkg: error processing clamav-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clamav-daemon:
clamav-daemon depends on clamav-base (= 0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1); however:
Version of clamav-base on system is 0.97.7+dfsg-1~squeeze1.
dpkg: error processing clamav-daemon (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clamav-freshclam:
clamav-freshclam depends on clamav-base (>= 0.97.6+dfsg-1~squeeze1);
however:
Package clamav-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing clamav-freshclam (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clamav:
clamav depends on clamav-freshclam | clamav-data; however:
Package clamav-freshclam is not configured yet.
Package clamav-data is not installed.
Package clamav-freshclam which provides clamav-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing clamav (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
clamav-base
clamav-daemon
clamav-freshclam
clamav
Clam has been running fine for quite awhile with the current config file.
Other than attempting this update, the only related change lately was
an upgrade to scamp 5.4 for the SaneSecurity third party sigs.
Clamav is still running at this time with the slightly older version,
thankfully.
