Freshclam error: "Problem with internal logger"Edit

Confirm that there are hung freshclam processes on the system:

ps auxww | grep fresh

Kill hung processes:

sudo killall freshclam

Confirm that hung processes are no longer present:

ps auxww | grep fresh

Perform a manual update:

sudo /usr/local/bin/freshclam

Inspect the log:

sudo less /var/log/freshclam.log

See also