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clamav-daemon broken after latest upgrade



I'm running a stock-standard installation of debian (7.7). I do regular security updates. Now when I try to run clamav-milter I get hundreds of these in my log:

Nov 30 08:55:25 debian clamav-milter[2561]: No clamd server appears to be available Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: Failed to initiate streaming/fdpassing Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: connect failed: No such file or directory Nov 30 08:55:37 debian clamav-milter[2561]: Probe for slot 1 returned: failed

the clamav-daemon won't start, and when I try to reconfigure it I get

# dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: clamav-daemon is broken or not fully installed

# apt-get upgrade gives me
The following packages have been kept back:
 clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-milter libclamav6
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

How can I resolve this? I've tried most of the usual tricks. Is it possible to downgrade something??


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