Kinoite beta 44 clam antivirus error

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Greetings,

Recently switched to fedora immutable and was setting up security apps when I encountered an error configuring clamd/clamav. Use the following command to install clam antivirus:

rpm-ostree install clamd

Rebooted and did the following:

systemctl enable clamd@scan
systemctl start clamd@scan

Installed the flatpak clamui and saw a couple of errors:

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Ran this command to see what’s happening:

magician@fedora-HP:~$ systemctl status clamd@scan
× clamd@scan.service - clamd scanner (scan) daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamd@.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2026-03-15 14:00:14 CET; 29min ago
 Invocation: d5fe6797722246f78cfdb558ad8a995e
       Docs: man:clamd(8)
             man:clamd.conf(5)
             https://www.clamav.net/documents/
    Process: 1629 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clamd -c /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 2.1M
        CPU: 7ms

mrt 15 14:00:14 fedora-HP systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
mrt 15 14:00:14 fedora-HP systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
mrt 15 14:00:14 fedora-HP systemd[1]: clamd@scan.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
mrt 15 14:00:14 fedora-HP systemd[1]: Failed to start clamd@scan.service - clamd scanner (scan) daemon.

Something wrong with the conf file? Any help is welcome.

Thank you.

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Use clamdscan on workstation F38 - #3 by vgaetera

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I saw that post while I was looking for a solution. I’m on immutable so things are a bit different I imagine.

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It should be similar, except for the part about installing packages.