Thanks. I haven't seen further error reports since around the time you sent this.
-mm- (but there's always tomorrow) On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 02:32:39AM +0000, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via clamav-users wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I think I know what happened on your system. The CDN (cloudflare) sometimes > sends cached responses for daily.cvd downloads, and presumably also does for > main.cvd. If you got a cached main.cvd version 59 after attempting to > download version 60, then it would try a new download all over again the next > time you run freshclam. > > We just cleared the cache on cloudflare so hopefully this doesn't happen > again. Clearing the cache hasn't been reliable, in my experience, so if we > get more reports of this we'll clear it again. > > Meanwhile, we're building a minor patch version for main.cvd and publish > version 61. Combine that with the daily update for daily.cvd and we should > be back to normal tomorrow morning. > > Regards, > Micah > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: clamav-users <clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net> On Behalf Of > > Mark E. Mallett > > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 5:51 PM > > To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> > > Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Freshclam updates problem > > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:55:06PM +0000, Micah Snyder (micasnyd) via > > clamav-users wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > But it seems 0.103 has a second bug where it will patiently wait > > > until it's at least 2 versions behind before it downloads the whole > > > CVD database. This behavior is supposed to happen when a private > > > mirror doesn't have the latest patch file yet, but wasn't supposed to > > > happen for a zero-byte patch file. So we clearly have 2 bugs to fix ASAP. > > > > FWIW: 0.103.0 here; freshclam does say we're 1 diff behind. It fails to > > apply the > > diff with the seek error mentioned: > > > > ERROR: cdiff_apply: lseek(desc, -350, SEEK_END) failed > > ERROR: downloadPatch: Can't apply patch > > > > But then it *does* download the two new .cvd files. Or at least two new .cvd > > files, I can't tell if they are the latest but I assume so. > > Next time around, the process repeats and we do the big downloads again. > > > > This may be what you meant but it doesn't sound like it. Just thought I'd > > pipe > > up. > > > > -mm- > > > > PS when I first saw the daemon reports I tried clearing the data and running > > freshclam by hand. Since it downloaded the two new .cvd files I assumed it > > had > > self-corrected, so I did the same on all servers. > > I was surprised on next daemon run to see the errors again, and tried a > > manual > > run again and got the same errors. > > > > I figured the problem was related to the new thing today; I was going to > > stop > > all freshclams until I looked deeper or heard more. But it sounds like > > wait-and- > > see for now. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > clamav-users mailing list > > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > -- Mark E. Mallett _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
