freshclam hangs

hnimmo · April 25, 2019, 12:02pm

For a couple of weeks now freshclam seems to hang while downloading the daily updates. It stops at daily-25380 and doesn’t move from there. My clamav version is 0.100.3

Does anyone experience something similar?
What can I do about it?

Any ideas anyone?

nrickert · April 25, 2019, 4:11pm

I have no personal experience with this. However, there’s a mailing list thread about the issue:

freshclam hangs at 100% CPU on Downloading daily-25380.cdiff

hnimmo · April 25, 2019, 5:18pm

Thanks!! It seems to be my problem.

Unfortunately, the mailing list thread calls for deleting a file called

daily.cvd

. This file does not exist in the given directory.
However,

daily.cld and main.cvd

are both there. Which one should go?

Cheers

hcvv · April 25, 2019, 5:51pm

Ask in the mailing list? Apparently that is where the gurus are for this case (not many people here use clamav. I assume).