segmentation fault on clamd

Hello,

I have been racking my brain and the search engines for an answer to this, i recently installed postfix as per http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-debian-lenny-p3. when I get to step number 9, the part of restarting clamav-daemon. I receive this message:

home:~# /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon restart Stopping ClamAV daemon: clamd.
Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon: line 308: 5002 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start -o -c $User --exec $DAEMON
failed!
home:~#

What could be the cause of this message.? Could it be hardware related like memory faults.

home:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1998.198
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips : 4001.35
clflush size : 32
power management: ts

If any other info is needed, i'll be glad to post it.
Thank you for any suggestions and help and if posted this in wrong forum, i apologize.

 

At least I can't rule out hardware faults. Try to run memcheck.

 

i have tried memtest86

memtest86 and memtest86+ both go through test overnight fine, but i haven't used memcheck itself before, i don't even know how to use that one.

 

These are fine.

Not sure what is wrong. Did you try to reinstall clamd?

 

reinstall clamd - same error

i just figure to bypass clamd for now but on another note, may be related. I also notice that when creating quota patch, when i get to dpkg-buildpackage. I also get
[...]
mkmap_open.c: In function âmkmap_openâ:
mkmap_open.c:212: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs> for instructions.
make: *** [mkmap_open.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/postfix-2.5.5/src/global'
make[1]: *** [update] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/postfix-2.5.5'
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
home:/usr/src/postfix-2.5.5#

Could this be related? If not how may i repair that error.

Thanks for helping me out. I appreciate it.

 

Not sure why this happens. I think I'd try a reinstall, and if that doesn't help, maybe you should try another hard drive.

 

Thanks

I will try that, i have suspision that its both HDD and my RAM since i have already replaced MB and this new MB requires different type Of Ram, closed for now.

I appreciate it.