[clamav-users] Fw: Freshclam ERROR: Initialization error! WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option

TH123 round12345 at protonmail.com
Fri Jul 2 18:06:35 UTC 2021


> Attn: Clamav-users
>
> I'm having a problem with freshclam.
>
> $ sudo freshclam
> WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option SafeBrowsing at /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf:22
> ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process
> ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
> ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed.
> ERROR: Initialization error!
> $
>
> This happened after an OS update. I have Pop! OS (version of Ubuntu) and it is 20.04. Before the update, everything was working fine. I purged all files related to clamav and freshclam and reinstalled with no change.
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
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