Topic: Cannot start CLAM - /usr/share/clamav ERROR:MD5 verification

[avery]

All emails are be put into the problems directory currently.  Looking in the antivirus logs I see.  

Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005 -> +++ Started at Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005
Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005 -> clamd daemon 0.86.1 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: i386, CPU: i686)
Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005 -> Log file size limited to 1048576 bytes.
Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005 -> Running as user qmailq (UID 404, GID 401)
Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005 -> Reading databases from /usr/share/clamav
Mon Jul 25 21:56:10 2005 -> ERROR: MD5 verification error

I can't manually start clamd

[root@saturn clamav]# service clamd start
Starting clamd: LibClamAV Error: Can't load /usr/share/clamav/main.cvd: MD5 verification error
ERROR: MD5 verification error
                                                           [ FAILED ]

Any ideas???  I've searched the forum - should I reinstall clam from Jespers scripts??

[jackl]

Avery,
 Run freshclam manually from command line this should update the database with current one.

Regards,
Jack

[avery]

Thank you for the reply  

The result wasn't quite what I was expecting - off to update clam now...  

[root@saturn root]# freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Tue Jul 26 20:53:09 2005
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.86.1 Recommended version: 0.86.2
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
main.cvd is up to date (version: 33, sigs: 36102, f-level: 5, builder: tkojm)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 993, sigs: 1040, f-level: 5, builder: arnaud)

However I've now got a "Internal server 500 error" in place of the server manager screens, which has survived a reboot ...

[jackl]

Have a look at http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24373.msg97680#msg97680   it may be of help

Regards
Jack