Comment 2 for bug 374067

scott, thanks for looking into this.

i am not sure whether this can be solved inside clamav-freshclam, i suspect this to be more of a bad interaction between clamav, pam and pam_mount. anyway it would be great if this could be resolved in a way that does not cause the boot process to hang (after all, no other service in the whole init sequence runs into this problem, that's why i reported the bug against freshclam).

i have no deeper knowledge about that freshclam is trying to do and why, but i was thinking along the lines of either switching id without triggering the pam_mount or a change in the way priviledges are gained and dropped in the first place so su-ing would'nt be necessary - just my rough guess, again, i have not digged deeper into the issue.