Boot hangs at Starting Freshclam

[ccrum]

I recently installed the Qmail Toaster packages on my CentOS 5 box. Something happened during the install of clamav-toaster and it hung up on me. I tried reinstalling it and then rebooting, but now the boot hangs at "Starting Freshclam". How can I resolve this? Is there a way to boot and bypass the Freshclam service? The only thing I seem to be able to do is get to a GRUB console.

[gerald_clark]

One of these:
1) boot up single user ( Check Wiki ) .
use chkconfig to disable the service until you fix it.

2) Hit 'I' when instructed during boot.
You can then choose to start or skip each service in turn.

[AlanBartlett]

Boot the system into [b]single user mode[/b] and remove [i]freshclam[/i] (i.e. reverse its installation).

At the [i]Grub[/i] menu screen, press any key. If you need to enter a [i]grub password[/i], do so now.
Select the your kernel (if required) with the [i]arrow keys[/i].
Press the letter [b]a[/b], then the [b]space[/b] bar and type the word [b]single[/b].
Press [b]enter[/b].
Congratulations! You are now booting your system in single user mode.
Now remove [i]freshclam[/i].
Once that's done, give the [i]bash shell prompt[/i] a [b]ctrl-D[/b].

Hope this helps.
Alan.

[ccrum]

Thanks...I got it to boot and unistalled the clamav-toaster. I then got the newest rpm, and tired to install again, but it hung on the install once again. I tried to uninstall it, but it tells me it is not installed. Then when I try to reinstall again, it tells me it is already installed. So how do I fix it if the system thinks is is both installed and uninstalled at the same time?

[ccrum]

OK...finally got it to uninstall, but when I try to reinstall with either the older version of clamav-toaster-0.90.1-1.3.13 or the newest version clamav-toaster-0.92-1.3.16 they both hang until I hit ctrl-c and then give me the error scriptlet failed, exit status 1. Any clues? Has anyone got Qmail working on CentOS5?

[AlanBartlett]

Where did you get the [i]rpm[/i]s from? Are they for [i]CentOS 5[/i]?

Perhaps a couple of dumb questions but worth asking, I think.

Alan.

[RAID-5]

You probably have SELinux enabled. Source rpm install hang when trying to start freshclam process and SELinux deny...) Disable it and then reboot. Clean previous files (rm /etc/freshclam.conf.rpmsave & rm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-toaster-VERSION.src.rpm)

SELinux can be disabled by editing /boot/grub/grub.conf and adding "selinux=0" at kernel parameters line like this "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ selinux=0".

And /etc/selinux/config "SELINUX=disabled"


Hope this help...

Kaven G.