Submitted by gill on

I stopped receiving email after an upgrade. Starting the amavisd service shows the errors:

Starting Mail Virus Scanner (amavisd): fetch_modules: error loading required module Compress/Zlib.pm:
dualvar is only available with the XS version of Scalar::Util at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 8
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 197.
ERROR: MISSING REQUIRED BASIC MODULES:
Compress::Zlib
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 237.
[FAILED]

To solve the issue I did a "Hack" to the actual library that is causing the problem.

$sudo vi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm and checked on the problematic line (8)

1. Remove the qw(dualvar) entry on that line. Which looks like this: use Scalar::Util qw(dualvar);

2. Save the file

3. Re-start amavis: service amavisd restart

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