Mouse pointer freezing problem

[satimis]

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
......
......

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

[falko]

Please try this:
hostname -f > /etc/mailname

[satimis]

Please try this:
hostname -f > /etc/mailname
Hi falko,


It was the package problem.


$ apt-cache policy clamav-freshclam
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