Avast shutdowns without notice while scanning

[Karolinger]

Avast shutdowns without notice while scanning

And when everytime I open Avast this message appears: "Deleted stale lock file '/home/karolinger/.avast/lockfile-karolinger'."

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit with the PAE kernel.

Thanks in advance for your help

[Lisandro]

avast is crashing (so the staled file...).
I use it at Ubuntu 10.04 without problems...
Did you check this: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=57775.0

[Karolinger]

Yes, I did. And I was able to fix that issue.

To experiment more...

I stared at the AvastGUI while scanning to see in which path crashes. It crashed while scanning the WualaDrive path in my home folder. I added this path to the exclusions, and started a scan, and it didn't crash.

So I removed the exclusion and just added WualaDrive to the scan and Avast crashed. So I guess I found the problem.

This directory is added by Wuala's java based application (which I use). http://wuala.com

Thank you for your help.

[zilog]

Yes, I did. And I was able to fix that issue.

To experiment more...

I stared at the AvastGUI while scanning to see in which path crashes. It crashed while scanning the WualaDrive path in my home folder. I added this path to the exclusions, and started a scan, and it didn't crash.

So I removed the exclusion and just added WualaDrive to the scan and Avast crashed. So I guess I found the problem.

This directory is added by Wuala's java based application (which I use). http://wuala.com

Thank you for your help.

ah, those damned virtual-drives - probably mmap fails when issued over a wuala-ised drive, and that's the problem.
but, fails in some ugly manner, because the fallback to malloc-read workaround is already in the application, just for those cases..

regards,
pc