Public bug reported:
An unattended upgrade upgraded clamav last night, after which clamav-
freshclam failed to start:
# systemctl status clamav-freshclam
● clamav-freshclam.service - ClamAV virus database updater
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-04-20 06:59:59 EEST; 6h
ago
Docs: man:freshclam(1)
man:freshclam.conf(5)
https://www.clamav.net/documents
Main PID: 18433 (code=exited, status=2)
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge systemd[1]: Started ClamAV virus database updater.
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge freshclam[18433]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option
SafeBrowsing at /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf:22
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge freshclam[18433]: ERROR: Problem with internal logger
(UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge freshclam[18433]: ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init
failed.
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge freshclam[18433]: ERROR: Initialization error!
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge freshclam[18433]: ERROR: Can't open
/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge systemd[1]: clamav-freshclam.service: Main process
exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Apr 20 06:59:59 fridge systemd[1]: clamav-freshclam.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
The permissions of /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log are 0640 clamav:adm; the
parent directory is mode 0755 clamav:clamav.
Restarting the clamav-freshclam service makes the error go away.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: clamav-freshclam 0.103.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-142.146-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-142-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 20 13:39:47 2021
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: clamav
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-09-11 (586 days ago)
** Affects: clamav (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apparmor apport-bug bionic
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