package clamav-daemon 0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: il pacchetto si trova in uno stato di inconsistenza grave: è necessario installarlo nuovamente prima di rimuoverlo

[Dario Foracappa]

It impossible to upgrade

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: clamav-daemon 0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-53.56~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
AptOrdering:
 clamav-daemon: Purge
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 31 19:42:57 2018
DpkgTerminalLog:
 dpkg: errore nell'elaborare il pacchetto clamav-daemon (--purge):
  il pacchetto si trova in uno stato di inconsistenza grave:
  è necessario installarlo nuovamente prima di rimuoverlo
ErrorMessage: il pacchetto si trova in uno stato di inconsistenza grave: è necessario installarlo nuovamente prima di rimuoverlo
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-17 (501 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-53-generic root=UUID=738bae49-5b02-483e-a3d4-53aad651ecfa ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.3
 apt 1.2.24
SourcePackage: clamav
Title: package clamav-daemon 0.99.2+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: il pacchetto si trova in uno stato di inconsistenza grave: è necessario installarlo nuovamente prima di rimuoverlo
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi this looks like a broken config to me, from your logs:
  [/etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.socket.d/extend.conf:4] Failed to parse address value, ignoring: localhost:3310
  clamav-daemon.socket: Unit lacks Listen setting. Refusing.
  clamav-daemon.socket: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit clamav-daemon.socket is not loaded properly: Invalid argument.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

On upgrading a service this service has to be restarted to pick up the fixes.
Rather rarely a real issue occurs that the newer version does e.g. fail with the formerly working configuration.
But most of the time what happens is, that a service was installed, but stays unconfigured or experimented with but left in a broken state.

Now on any update of the related packages that service has to be restarted, but since its config is incomplete/faulty it fails to restart.
Therefore the update of that package has to consider itself incomplete.

Depending on your particular case there are two solutions:
- either remove the offending package if you don't want to continue using it.
- Or if you do want to keep it please fix the configuration so that re-starting the service will work.

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for clamav (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]