This one time, at band camp, Erwan David said:
> At freshclam I get the following error message :
> Starting ClamAV virus database updater: freshclamERROR: Problem with internal 
> logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
>  failed!
> 
> freshclam runs, but no login happens.
> 
> If I run freshclam by hand I get the following trace :
> 
> open("/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=19490, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
> 0xb7f31000
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=19490, ...}) = 0
> _llseek(3, 19490, [19490], SEEK_SET)    = 0
> umask(022)                              = 037
> fcntl64(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = -1 
> EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> write(2, "ERROR: Problem with internal log"..., 85) = 85
> exit_group(62)                          = ?

This is freshclam trying to lock the logfile and failing.  It sounds to
me like you may have another instance of freshclam already running.
Kill off the old one and try again.

Thanks,
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