10.4.9 Combo Update amavisd problem

Question

I just applied the 10.4.9 combo update to a 10.4.8 machine that had been updated previously with BuildSmart.
Everything seemed fine, except amavisd refused to start.
System log fills up with amavisd failing & throttling messages and the outbound queue (obviously) fills up.
-"sudo launchctl load org.amavis.amavisd.plist" reports "Nothing to load"
-the original amavisd binary is where I left it, in /usr/bin
-the launchd plist itself is/was unchanged
-the PID file in /var/amavis went missing after the upgrade, but copying the PID file to /var/amavis from a backup did not help
-replacing all the postfix & amavis config files with backups did not help
-telnet localhost 10024 responds with a permission denied message
repairing permissions results in * a lot* of fixes to permissions, but nothing that allowed amavisd to launch. I repaired the clamav user after permission rebuild with 'sudo chown clamav:clamav /usr/share/clamav'
postconf -n looked normal and matched the backup output
file owners & groups all looked normal
su'ing to clamav and issuing "amavisd reload" results in some type of "compilation" error message and a complaint about MIME:Base 64 not being installed - almost like the amavisd binary was a make file ... I confirmed it was at least marked and labeled executable ...
I installed MIME::Base64 using CPAN- no change.
I am now restoring from backup and will try again using software update instead of the combo updater. If it repeats, I'll post with more details.
In the meantime, if anyone has any ideas, it would be much appreciated.
Mac Pro 2.6 4GB/3x500GB Raid/X1900, MacBook Pro C2D   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Answer 1

This is a PPC machine (not universal ...)
I've gone back to my backup for now, but any ideas you might have would be most appreciated.
mail:~ admin$ ps -U clamav
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
53 ?? SNs 0:10.85 clamd -D
54 ?? SNs 0:00.08 freshclam -D -d -p /var/clamav/freshclam.pid
sudo launchctl list
com.apple.dashboard.advisory.fetch
com.apple.KernelEventAgent
com.apple.mDNSResponder
com.apple.nibindd
com.apple.periodic-daily
com.apple.periodic-monthly
com.apple.periodic-weekly
com.apple.portmap
com.apple.servermgrd
com.apple.syslogd
com.vix.cron
edu.cmu.andrew.cyrus.master
net.clamav.clamd
net.clamav.freshclam
org.amavis.amavisd
org.isc.named
org.postfix.master
org.xinetd.xinetd
com.openssh.sshd
Amavis log is empty (except for processing done before the update)
ClamAV log is the normal startup messages
As far as the logs go, Amavis won't start, so the only messages are in the System log from launchd stating that amavis failed to launch and that it will retry x more times. I can't launch amavisd in debug mode either, although any attempt to do so, or issuing amavis reload (as user clamav) generates the message about MIME::Base64 being unable to load and "exiting at line 157".
launchd seems to be doing its job.
I had a look at line 157 in amavisd - it comes right after the section where amavis tries to to load all the required perl modules. Everything I'm seeing is pointing to amavis not being able to open the required perl modules.
I've checked and compared my perl installation and re-installed all the required modules from CPAN. The last thing I did before I gave up was copy over the entire working perl setup from my backup. Perl works, the MIME::Base64 module works ...
perl -V looks like the below; the list of installed modules is way too long to post.
mail:~ admin$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=8.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level
uname='darwin b20.apple.com 8.0 darwin kernel version 8.3.0: mon oct 3 20:04:04 pdt 2005; root:xnu-792.6.22.obj~2release_ppc power macintosh powerpc '
config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags=-g -pipe -Dldflags=-Dman3ext=3pm -Duseithreads -Duseshrplib'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
optimize='-Os',
cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1819)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Offt='offt', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='env MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags ='-L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lc
perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc
libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USELARGEFILES PERLIMPLICITCONTEXT
Locally applied patches:
23953 - fix for File::Path::rmtree CAN-2004-0452 security issue
33990 - fix for setuid perl security issues
SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962
Built under darwin
Compiled at Oct 14 2006 00:15:28
@INC:
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6
/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Library/Perl/5.8.6
/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6
/Network/Library/Perl
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6
/Library/Perl/5.8.1
Mac Pro 2.6 4GB/3x500GB Raid/X1900, MacBook Pro C2D   Mac OS X (10.4.8)