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Unable to start Plesk Premium Antivirus ( Dr.Web ) on Plesk server

 
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Symptoms

  • Unable to start Plesk Premium Antivirus

    • From Plesk UI: Tools & Settings > Services Management > Plesk Premium Antivirus:

      Unable to manage service by drwebmng: ('start', 'drweb'). Error: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/drwebmng[17360]: Unable to start drweb antivirus daemon

    • From the command-line interface:

      # service drwebd start
      Key file: /opt/drweb/drweb32.key - Key file was not found! (No such file or directory)
      A path to a valid license key file was not specified.

  • The following error appears during enabling Plesk Premium Antivirus on a mailbox:

    Error: drwebmng failed: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/drwebmng[20358]: Unable to update drweb antivirus service state: not all changes might be applied drwebmng: Some errors occurred in handlers actions System error 2: No such file or directory

Cause

drweb package is corrupted or installed from the 3rd-party repository.

Resolution

  1. Connect to the server via SSH.

    Note: if direct SSH access to the server is not possible, contact server administrator for further assistance.

  2. Remove Plesk Premium Antivirus:

    # plesk installer --select-release-current --remove-component drweb

  3. Remove corresponding directories:

    # rm -rf /var/drweb/ /etc/drweb/

  4. Check if 3rd-party repository is being used:

    • On RHEL-like (RHEL/CentOS/AlmaLinux/CloudLinux/Rocky Linux):

      # yum repolist | grep -i drweb
      drweb DrWeb - stable 72

    • On Ubuntu/Debian:

      # apt policy | grep drweb
      500 http://repo.drweb.com/drweb/debian 11.1/non-free amd64 Packages
      release o=drweb,a=stable,n=11.1,l=drweb 11.1,c=non-free,b=amd64
      origin repo.drweb.com

    If any repositories are found, disable them.

    1. Find the repository file:

      • On RHEL-like (RHEL/CentOS/AlmaLinux/CloudLinux/Rocky Linux):

        # find /etc/yum.repos.d/ -name *drweb*
        /etc/yum.repos.d/drweb-yum-x86_64.repo

      • On Ubuntu/Debian:

        # find /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ -name *drweb*
        /etc/apt/sources.list.d/drweb.list

    2. Move the repository file to some another directory to disable it:

      • On RHEL-like (RHEL/CentOS/AlmaLinux/CloudLinux/Rocky Linux):

        # mv /etc/yum.repos.d/drweb-yum-x86_64.repo /root/drweb-yum-x86_64.repo.bak

      • On Ubuntu/Debian:

        # mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/drweb.list /root/drweb.list.back

      Note: the repositories names and files names may differ.

    3. Run yum update or apt update command to refresh the packages lists.

  5. Re-install Plesk Premium Antivirus:

    • via Plesk UI:

      In Plesk> Tools & Settings > Updates and Upgrades > Add and Remove Product Components > Mail hosting > Plesk Premium Antivirus:

    • via command-line interface:

      # plesk installer --select-release-current --install-component drweb

  6. Run the Plesk Premium Antivirus service:

    • via Plesk UI:

      Tools & Settings > Services Management > Plesk Premium Antivirus:

    • via command-line interface:

      # service drwebd start

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