Hi folks, Virtual Machine - VServer Host - Debian Etch - with full X packages installed including Gnome desktop Guest - Debian Etch, basic OS for installing headless mail server Package - clamav-freshclam It was discovered that after installing the captioned package mouse pointer freezed on the Host. Because there is no X installed on the Guest I have no idea whether it has influence on the Guest. On removing the package $ sudo apt-get --purge remove clamav-freshclam Code: ...... ...... Stopping ClamAV virus database updater: freshclam Waiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purging configuration files for clamav-freshclam ... Setting up amavisd-new (2.4.2-6.1) ... Creating/updating amavis user account... addgroup: Starting amavisd: head: cannot open `/etc/mailname' for reading: No such file or directory hostname: Unknown host The value of variable $myhostname is "", but should have been a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such. You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname in amavisd.conf, or fix what uname(3) provides as a host's network name! (failed). invoke-rc.d: initscript amavis, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing amavisd-new (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: amavisd-new E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any advice to fix the problem. TIA B.R. satimis
Hi falko, It was the package problem. $ apt-cache policy clamav-freshclam Code: clamav-freshclam: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.90.1dfsg-3.1+etch14 Version table: 0.93.3.dfsg-1~bpo40+1 0 1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main Packages 0.90.1dfsg-3.1+etch14 0 500 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages 0.90.1dfsg-3etch11 0 500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org etch/main Packages After installing the package on backports; $ sudo apt-get -t etch-backports install clamav-freshclam Problem gone. Mouse is now working without problem. B.R. satimis
