ClamAV duplicate database Warning

[Peter Smith]

Hi,

I have just got the following warning using clamav?

LibClamAV Warning: Detected duplicate databases /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/bytecode.cld and /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/bytecode.cvd. The /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/bytecode.cld database is older and will not be loaded, you should manually remove it from the database directory.

Running clamav 0.100.0-1.cp1170 on Centos 7 cpanel 74.0.6.

Do I just do rm /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/bytecode.cld?

Thanks
Peter

 

[24x7server]

Hi,

Instead of removing it, just move it to some other location for time being. You can use the below command to do so.
# mv /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/bytecode.cld /root/

 

[Peter Smith]

Thank you, when / if can this be removed?

 

[24x7server]

You can remove if after you update the clamav virus definitions.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

You could move the duplicate database to another location with commands like this:

mkdir /root/clamav-backup
mv /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/main.cld  /root/clamav-backup/

Then, check for any error messages when running the following commands:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/freshclam
/scripts/restartsrv_clamd

If no errors persist upon running those commands, you can then remove the /root/clamav-backup directory.

Thank you.

 

[tomswarts]

Hello,

You could move the duplicate database to another location with commands like this:

mkdir /root/clamav-backup
mv /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav/main.cld  /root/clamav-backup/

Then, check for any error messages when running the following commands:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/freshclam
/scripts/restartsrv_clamd

If no errors persist upon running those commands, you can then remove the /root/clamav-backup directory.

Thank you.

I ran into this same issue. I removed the duplicate database file and then ran into the following error:

[email protected] [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav]# /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Thu Feb 7 12:45:03 2019
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.100.2 Recommended version: 0.101.1
DON'T PANIC! Read ClamavNet
main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 25353, sigs: 2241188, f-level: 63, builder: raynman)
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 328, sigs: 94, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
[email protected] [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/share/clamav]# /scripts/restartsrv_clamd
Service “clamd” is already stopped.

Waiting for “clamd” to start ……warn [restartsrv_clamd] The 'clamd' service's PID file '/var/run/clamd.pid' did not appear after 10 seconds.

…failed.

Cpanel::Exception::Services::StartError
Service Status

Service Error
(XID dcgcwe) The “clamd” service failed to start.

clamd has failed. Contact your system administrator if the service does not automagically recover.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hi @tomswarts,

Can you open a support ticket so we can take a closer look at the affected system? You can post the ticket number here and we'll update this thread with the outcome.

Thank you.