package clamav-daemon 0.98.6+dfsg-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[oldspammer]

This is for the i386 class software running on an Intel core i7 4770k with 8 Gbytes of RAM. The system became unstable upon system upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04 from 14.10 that was updated to current about 5 minutes before the upgrade process was undertaken.

My purpose in using the i386 version software is to be able to swap this HDD used for the system disk into slower speed, older machines, etc, when needed for things like system recovery of their file systems running on their native HDD(s).

This system configuration consists of a 3 Tbyte HDD Western Digital green drive booting an Asus Z87-Expert mainboard with no peripheral expansion boards plugged into it at all, but all on board devices enabled.

I suppose that this failure bug represents a security risk due to the fact that the clamav software is the main anti-virus software running on Linux and that if this is not running the figurative pants of the computer are pulled down while it is bent over in a vulnerable way, just waiting to be infected with something...

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: clamav-daemon 0.98.6+dfsg-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 27 07:58:04 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:clamav-daemon:0.98.6+dfsg-1ubuntu4:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-13 (561 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.2)
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-15-generic root=UUID=42b96f48-02bd-4b4c-b99e-620c4f3ae62f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1
 apt 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
SourcePackage: clamav
Title: package clamav-daemon 0.98.6+dfsg-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-26 (1 days ago)

[oldspammer (ckskinner)]

Available disk space determination with commas inserted for each 3 digits in the disk space sizes on the WDC 3 Tbyte sysem disk:

root@username-desktop:/usr/sbin# df -k .
Filesystem
1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-uuid/42b96f48-02bd-4b4c-b99e-620c4f3ae62f
2,881,852,508 249,131,300 2,486,303,948 10% /

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1438745, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.