Scanning never ends...

[Lisandro]

Dublin, with SUSE 10.1 and avast 1.0.6, when avastgui is closed (using quit button) the lockfile is not deleted.
Worse than this is that a full scanning never ends… I mean, the GUI just ‘disappear’ (no item in taskbar, alt-tab does not show it…). I could never finish a scan because of this. I think the problem is on the Windows partitions.

By the way, isn’t there a way to exclude all Windows partitions from scanning?
The Exclusion list does not allow wildcards and when I try to exclude \Windows\C*
Linux says me that it can’t create a file or a folder ??? :

[chocholo]

Just small note, Linux uses slashes ‘/’ and not backslashes '', can’t be this a problem?
Try to add ‘/Windows/C/*’.

And to that continous scanning, you can always use ‘kill’ and its younger brother ‘killall’

[system]

pls try the latest beta: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=20142.15

[Lisandro]

@chocholo post:2

Just small note, Linux uses slashes ‘/’ and not backslashes '', can’t be this a problem?
Try to add ‘/Windows/C/*’.

I think not… that was my mistake (I’m used to Windows backslashes) but I was trying to add a folder using the GUI and it does not work.

@chocholo post:2

And to that continous scanning, you can always use ‘kill’ and its younger brother ‘killall’

Will the command on terminal be just:
kill avastgui
or not? Thanks for helping me in the Linux world.

@dublin post:3

pls try the latest beta: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=20142.15

That was precesely the version I was testing… do you mean that in the same link you’ve updated the file?

[chocholo]

@Tech post:4

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Will the command on terminal be just:
kill avastgui
or not? Thanks for helping me in the Linux world.
…

Use ‘ps aux | grep avast’, it will give you lines like ‘root 28014 0.0 0.0 1928 580 pts/5 D+ 21:14 0:00 avast’, where 28014 is pid of the running avast process, then use ‘kill 28014’ and avast will be terminated (it is hard termination, similar to ending process under Windows).

bazmek:~# ps aux | grep avast
root     28014  0.0  0.0  1928  580 pts/5    D+   21:14   0:00 avast
bazmek:~#kill 28014
bazmek:~#

Or you can use ‘killall avast’ and all processes called ‘avast’ will be terminated. Basically kill needs process identification number (pid) and killall needs process name for successful termination.

[Lisandro]

I’m trying now the scanning of the full system (including all Windows partitions).
The scanning takes 2 hours, the KDE is there, no problems, but avast window disappear.
If I try to start avast again I get the error…
I’m using Kubuntu 6 now.
I’ll try again, for the last time because I could NEVER finish ANY scan with avast in Linux untill now.
I’ll turn on the report for the ‘ok files’ to see if anything strange is recorded.