[clamav-users] clamav stops boot

[Bowie Bailey]

On 5/2/2014 12:16 PM, Greg Mueller wrote:
> I can't get to anything yet.
> It won't go past the out of date adviso

It has to be something else causing the hang.  That notice is just a 
warning message and should not affect the boot process.

Have you tried booting into single user mode?  I don't know offhand how 
to do that with Debian, but if you can get that far, you can check the 
log files and see if you can find any error messages indicating what is 
actually stopping the boot process.  If you can get there, you could 
also try disabling ClamAV to see if it helps.

If you can't get to single user mode, then you could download and burn a 
Debian (or other Linux) live cd and boot from that.  Once you have that 
running, you can mount the partitions from the hard drive and try to 
find the problem.

-- 
Bowie