Clam Database Update fails due to Locked Log Files
lavanyadeepak opened this issue · comments
lavanyadeepak@NithyaLavanya:~$ sudo freshclam
ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed.
ERROR: Initialization error!
ClamConf information for troubleshooting
lavanyadeepak@NithyaLavanya:~$ clamconf -n
Checking configuration files in /etc/clamav
Config file: clamd.conf
PreludeAnalyzerName = "ClamAV"
LogFile = "/var/log/clamav/clamav.log"
LogFileMaxSize = "4294967295"
LogTime = "yes"
LogRotate = "yes"
ExtendedDetectionInfo = "yes"
LocalSocket = "/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"
LocalSocketGroup = "clamav"
LocalSocketMode = "666"
MaxConnectionQueueLength = "15"
MaxThreads = "12"
ReadTimeout = "180"
SendBufTimeout = "200"
SelfCheck = "3600"
User = "clamav"
BytecodeTimeout = "60000"
MaxScanTime = "120000"
MaxRecursion = "16"
PCREMatchLimit = "10000"
PCRERecMatchLimit = "5000"
Config file: freshclam.conf
LogFileMaxSize = "4294967295"
LogTime = "yes"
LogRotate = "yes"
UpdateLogFile = "/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log"
Checks = "24"
DatabaseMirror = "db.local.clamav.net", "database.clamav.net"
MaxAttempts = "5"
clamav-milter.conf not found
Software settings
Version: 0.103.11
Optional features supported: MEMPOOL IPv6 FRESHCLAM_DNS_FIX AUTOIT_EA06 BZIP2 LIBXML2 PCRE2 ICONV JSON
Database information
Database directory: /var/lib/clamav
daily.cvd: version 27195, sigs: 2054013, built on Sat Feb 24 14:58:55 2024
bytecode.cvd: version 334, sigs: 91, built on Thu Feb 23 03:03:21 2023
main.cvd: version 62, sigs: 6647427, built on Thu Sep 16 18:02:42 2021
Total number of signatures: 8701531
Platform information
uname: Linux 5.15.0-97-generic #107-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 7 13:26:48 UTC 2024 x86_64
OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64
Full OS version: Linux Mint 21.3
zlib version: 1.2.11 (1.2.11), compile flags: a9
platform id: 0x0a21848408000000000b0400
Build information
GNU C: 11.4.0 (11.4.0)
CPPFLAGS: -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
CFLAGS: -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/clamav-5GNd84/clamav-0.103.11+dfsg=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
CXXFLAGS: -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/clamav-5GNd84/clamav-0.103.11+dfsg=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
LDFLAGS: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed
Configure: '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' '--disable-option-checking' '--disable-silent-rules' '--libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--runstatedir=/run' '--disable-maintainer-mode' '--disable-dependency-tracking' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/clamav-5GNd84/clamav-0.103.11+dfsg=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/clamav-5GNd84/clamav-0.103.11+dfsg=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed' '--with-dbdir=/var/lib/clamav' '--sysconfdir=/etc/clamav' '--disable-clamav' '--disable-unrar' '--enable-milter' '--enable-dns-fix' '--with-libjson' '--with-system-libmspack' '--with-libcurl=/usr' '--with-gnu-ld' '--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'OBJCFLAGS=-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/clamav-5GNd84/clamav-0.103.11+dfsg=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security'
sizeof(void*) = 8
Engine flevel: 132, dconf: 132
if the freshclam.log file is locked, that means freshclam is already running and this is the expected behavior.