BitDefender can't load av engines .. Ubuntu/Scientific Linux

The latest definition updates, could be from 22nd or 23rd Sept. seem to have resulted in not being able to scan ' Failure to load anti-virus engines' and/or core initialisation failed.
This affects me since today on Lucid, Maverick and SL 6.1. ( and wife's Lucid ).

I don't think updates to Ubuntu are responsible as scanning was fine after the updates and before updating BD defs.

Can you confirm mack_guy or anyone else ? Remember to do the BD update before scanning.

EDIT: Latest update and it's working again ! Must have been something with the definitions.

 

BitDefender is actually one of the better-working ones of AVs I've tried so far. Many just fail to work properly on modern Ubuntu.

 

Bitdefender getting to be a nuisance. Used to be really good, now there is another problem.
Trying to scan will result in a crash as mentioned on their forum here

I don't like the 'fix' suggested as it requires running as superuser (su).

Furthermore the fix doesn't make sense to me as one cannot make a soft link to a non-existant file (bdcore.so.linux-x86_64).

I wonder why Bitdefender went from very good to pretty bad ..

 

yeah strange i face the same problem now i switch to avast but i guess its due to bleachbit temp cleaning maybe i am wrong

 

I think you need to run this command first as superuser:-

cat /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/versions.dat.* |awk '/bdcore.so.linux/{print $3}'|while read bdcore_so;do touch /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/$bdcore_so;bdscan --update;ln -s /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/$bdcore_so /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so;done

To get the bdcore.so.linux-x86_64 file.

Then followed by this command:-

# rm /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so
# ln -s /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so.linux-x86_64 /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so

mack_guy do you perhaps have a test machine where you can try this ?

 

i try that on my main machine but it didnt work give error -1008

GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.


also on scanning give me same error let me again check i install

i downloaded it from here

http://download.bitdefender.com/SMB...er_for_Unices/Unix/Current/EN_FR_BR_RO/Linux/

and install like this way

http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2009/10/bitdefender-antivirus-installation.html

now i try old rpm link

http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/#

 

OK, it's working for me using the commands I mentioned. I am on 64 bit system.
The commands have to be issued in a root terminal.
After you have done that, open Bitdefender and try a scan. You will get a message failed to load av sigs. Then just click update and scanning will work again.

 

have you face this error any idea about how to solve this one

thanks in advance )

 

mack_guy, I am sorry, I really have no idea why those commands are not working for you.
Try maybe only the first long command and see what gives.
Also check the forum to see if there are any new developments.
One of the updates a few days ago caused all this nuisance.

(Don't let it spoil your weekend !)

Edit: The commands work on all my installs Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Scientific Linux.

 

thanks ocky ur solution worked for me perfectly, i am on a 64 bit ubuntu.