Clamav recent update: "existing lock file /etc/passwd.lock with an invalid PID"

1 post / 0 new
Topic locked
#1 Mon, 09/24/2018 - 03:00
netizen

Clamav recent update: "existing lock file /etc/passwd.lock with an invalid PID"

Hello all,

I tried to update Clamav on Centos 7 and I received the errors below. Any idea why? Do I need to do anything more?

--->

Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
usermod: existing lock file /etc/passwd.lock with an invalid PID '765
'
usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
  Updating   : clamav-filesystem-0.100.1-3.el7.noarch                                                                                                   1/16
  Updating   : clamav-lib-0.100.1-3.el7.x86_64                                                                                                          2/16
  Updating   : clamav-update-0.100.1-3.el7.x86_64                                                                                                       3/16
usermod: existing lock file /etc/passwd.lock with an invalid PID '765
'
usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
  Updating   : clamd-0.100.1-3.el7.x86_64

<----

Thank you