After a few purges and re-installs I have some insight into this. My goal was to use clamav with Thunderbird's plugin clamrib. In order to do that I need to add to lines two to clamav-daemon.conf. So I thought I needed use dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon and pick no for manually configure. That is what added .dpkg.old to extend.conf. So I did a purge and re-install and just added my two lines to clamav-daemon.conf and all is working as expected. According to the first dialog box in dpkg- reconfigure, see the third picture in my attachment notes.txt,I shouldn't have to worry about future upgrades removing my additions to clamav-daemon.conf.
As a side note, I tried using dpkg-reconfigure and pick yes to handle the configuration automatically. I picked all the default values until it started looping between the two dialog boxes shown at the top of my attachment. I don't think I need to use dpkg-reconfigure. At this point I'm not sure if I have discovered a bug or just didn't understand what I was doing. In any case thank you for your help and time. ** Attachment added: "Notes.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/1784193/+attachment/5170165/+files/Notes.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784193 Title: clamav-daemon fails to start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/1784193/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
