[regression] clamav-daemon: Infinite loop at dpkg-reconfigure

[Richard Laager]

This affects 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.2 in Xenial. 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 was not affected.

When running "dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon", there is an infinite loop. If run interactively, it alternates between:

ZIP files larger than
During the SelfCheck

Attached is a patch (not written by me) from the Debian bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905044

I can confirm that this patch resolves the issue.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

@Marc - that was part of the security updates and might affect more than just Xenial.
Will you take over the fix to this regression so it can hit those only doing -security updates as well?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Marc said on IRC that he will take a look - Thanks!
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package clamav - 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu3

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clamav (0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/clamav-daemon.config.in: fix infinite loop during
    dpkg-reconfigure (LP: #1792051)

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:44:52 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package clamav - 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.4

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clamav (0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.14.04.4) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * debian/clamav-daemon.config.in: fix infinite loop during
    dpkg-reconfigure (LP: #1792051)

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:00:26 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package clamav - 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.3

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clamav (0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.16.04.3) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * debian/clamav-daemon.config.in: fix infinite loop during
    dpkg-reconfigure (LP: #1792051)

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:59:54 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package clamav - 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.3

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clamav (0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.3) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * debian/clamav-daemon.config.in: fix infinite loop during
    dpkg-reconfigure (LP: #1792051)

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:59:22 -0400