Upgrade problem

[Denis Beauchemin]

Chris Connell wrote:
> Hello
> I was wandering if someone could give me some advice to troubleshoot a
> strange problem I had when upgrading mailscanner on solaris9 with gcc.
>
> I upgraded 4.25-14 to 4.6-2. I installed the extra Archive-Zip-1.09 and
> Compress-Zlib-1.33 perl modules required.  These installed ok except
> Compress Zlib.pm and auto installed in
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris so I had to copy it to ../
> for mailscanner to read it (as it looks in the lib directory below).
>
> I noticed something strange after the upgrade in that the mqueue.in dir was
> growing and mailscanner stopped scanning files. There was a core file in
> there that keeps going in there when it is restarted.
>
> It would keep saying in the log
>
> Mar  9 20:32:12 ns1 MailScanner[12089]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
> version 4.28.6 starting...
> Mar  9 20:32:12 ns1 MailScanner[12023]: New Batch: Scanning 105 messages,
> 311433 bytes
> Mar  9 20:32:17 ns1 MailScanner[12073]: Using locktype = flock
> Mar  9 20:32:23 ns1 MailScanner[12041]: New Batch: Scanning 105 messages,
> 311433 bytes
>
> And keep growing but not deliver any messages with attachments. I tried
> switching off the virus scanning, and also turned off spamassassin - made no
> difference.
>
> One of the upgrade steps must have broken my whole installation as it still
> did not work when I reverted back to the old version of mailscanner ( I have
> a link called soft link in opt called MailScanner and change it to the
> appropriate version I want to run) , therefore Ive had to restore all of
> /usr and /opt as Im not sure what caused it.
>
> If anyone has any idea what might have caused this please let me know.

Chris,

I had the same problem this afternoon when I installed a new MS and
wanted to revert to the old one afterwards by putting back old
directories I had backed up before upgrading.

Turned out it tried to start the latest version (like what is happening
to you; check MS version in your log) because I forgot to copy
/usr/sbin/MailScanner before upgrading...

I believe this is where the heart of MS lives and it must match the rest
of the package that is in /usr/lib/MailScanner on my system.

Hope this helps.

Denis