clamav install on Sid fails on retrieving database

[Pim Bliek | PingWings]

Hi,

I am trying to install clamav, to be able to scan my email and files etc
for viri. I am running Sid, all packages are fully updated. No funky
apt-sources. I do a apt-get install clamav and get the following:

fourtytwo:~# apt-get install clamav
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
clamav-freshclam
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clamav clamav-freshclam
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/198kB of archives.
After unpacking 725kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package clamav-freshclam.
(Reading database ... 45634 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking clamav-freshclam (from .../clamav-freshclam_0.60-4_i386.deb)
....
Selecting previously deselected package clamav.
Unpacking clamav (from .../clamav_0.60-4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up clamav (0.60-4) ...
Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.60-4) ...
Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Checking for a new database - started at Fri Aug 1 09:24:29 2003

And there it sits. I let it run whole night yesterday (above output is
when I reproduced the same situation), but it didn't do anything.
I looked into the script that dpkg tries to execute, it is apparently
running the binary file 'freshclam' and it gives mirrors.txt als the
souce for downloadmirrors. I tried to ping the mirrors and got
connections to 3 out of 4. I moved the one that didn't work down in
mirrors.txt, according to the manuel I found somewhere. Also, I used my
browser to have a look at one of the downloadmirrors. It is working, I
can see the database files freshclam should retrieve for me.
Then I did a tcpdump | grep <hostname of the mirror>, and ran freshclam
again. Nothing.

To me it seems that freshclam just sits there and does nothing. Is
anyone else able to reproduce? Anyone else aware of this? Or maybe
someone with a solution or workaround?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pim Bliek

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[Pim Bliek | PingWings]

Hello All,

I posted below some days ago but got no reply... So I try again... maybe
now somebody reads it by accident and knows a solution ;). Or maybe
someone can try to reproduce it on a Sid box?

Thanx in advance!

Regards,
Pim
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pim Bliek | PingWings [mailto:bliekp@pingwings.nl]
Sent: vrijdag 1 augustus 2003 9:35
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: clamav install on Sid fails on retrieving database


Hi,

I am trying to install clamav, to be able to scan my email and files etc
for viri. I am running Sid, all packages are fully updated. No funky
apt-sources. I do a apt-get install clamav and get the following:

fourtytwo:~# apt-get install clamav
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
clamav-freshclam
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clamav clamav-freshclam
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/198kB of archives.
After unpacking 725kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package clamav-freshclam.
(Reading database ... 45634 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking clamav-freshclam (from .../clamav-freshclam_0.60-4_i386.deb)
....
Selecting previously deselected package clamav.
Unpacking clamav (from .../clamav_0.60-4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up clamav (0.60-4) ...
Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.60-4) ...
Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Checking for a new database - started at Fri Aug 1 09:24:29 2003

And there it sits. I let it run whole night yesterday (above output is
when I reproduced the same situation), but it didn't do anything.
I looked into the script that dpkg tries to execute, it is apparently
running the binary file 'freshclam' and it gives mirrors.txt als the
souce for downloadmirrors. I tried to ping the mirrors and got
connections to 3 out of 4. I moved the one that didn't work down in
mirrors.txt, according to the manuel I found somewhere. Also, I used my
browser to have a look at one of the downloadmirrors. It is working, I
can see the database files freshclam should retrieve for me.
Then I did a tcpdump | grep <hostname of the mirror>, and ran freshclam
again. Nothing.

To me it seems that freshclam just sits there and does nothing. Is
anyone else able to reproduce? Anyone else aware of this? Or maybe
someone with a solution or workaround?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pim Bliek

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