Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

[Laurent Frigault]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:28:10PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> >> FWIW, we have several machines running with the libmap.conf hack.
> >> clamav no longer locks up, but has instead taken to occasionally dying
> >> altogether.
> > Hi,
> > I think there are other bugs in the current clamd, the main one that
> > we run into is when it tries to reload the database, and it somehow
> > confuses itself and exits.
> > 
> > http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20070314.170629.9118e704.en.html
> 
> At least on FreeBSD 5.4 I think I've tracked the problem down to -lthr:
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=110352
> 
> Using either -lpthread or simply not using -lthr clamd (for me) doesn't
> crash (well, not yet :>).
> 
> Only happens to me with 0.90.1 in daemon mode.  With 0.90_x or 0.90.1 in
> foreground mode it stays running afer the selfcheck.

I have seen several clamd locks under 5.5 + libthr with 0.90.1 . No
problem under 5.5 with pthread . See the 2nd part of 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/110334

regards,
-- 
Laurent Frigault | <url:http://www.agneau.org/>