There is definitely some bug in today's ClamAV update. I have the same
problem on all servers running ClamAV (different distributions,
different versions).
There is a workaround that worked for me - stop ClamAV daemon, delete
all files in /var/lib/clamav, run freshclam manually, then start daemon.
On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:27:24 + Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
> Package: clamav-freshclam
> Version: 0.101.1+dfsg-3
> Followup-For: Bug #923867
>
> Hi again,
>
> I stopped the freshclam service and tried running the update from the
> command line. The same story, 100% CPU usage, same info shown:
>
> # freshclam update
> Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar
> 6 13:21:37 2019
> Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> main.cld is up to date (version: 58, sigs:
> 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
> Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> Downloading daily-25378.cdiff [100%]
> Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> Downloading daily-25379.cdiff [100%]
> Wed Mar 6 13:21:40 2019 -> Downloading daily-25380.cdiff [100%]
>
> The output stops at this point and the process eats 100% CPU.
>
> BR,
>
> Stanislav
>
>
