Getting "Service is in unknown state" error about ansible-role-clamav

[Lusitaniae]

Possibly related, I've been getting the error below since 3rd September (13 days ago)

    amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Ensure ClamAV daemon is running (if configured).] ***
    amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:36 +0000 (0:00:00.195)       0:02:58.185 ****
    amazon-ebs: fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to start service clamd@scan: Job for [email protected] failed because the control process exited with error code. See \"systemctl status [email protected]\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.
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the whole log for the role section

amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Include OS-Specific variables] **********************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:04 +0000 (0:00:00.124)       0:02:26.703 ****
amazon-ebs: ok: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : include_tasks] **************************************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:04 +0000 (0:00:00.092)       0:02:26.795 ****
amazon-ebs: included: /root/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.clamav/tasks/setup-vars.yml for hostname
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Define clamav_daemon.] ******************************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:04 +0000 (0:00:00.099)       0:02:26.894 ****
amazon-ebs: ok: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Define clamav_freshclam_daemon.] ********************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:05 +0000 (0:00:00.118)       0:02:27.013 ****
amazon-ebs: ok: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Define clamav_packages.] ****************************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:05 +0000 (0:00:00.093)       0:02:27.107 ****
amazon-ebs: ok: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Ensure ClamAV packages are installed.] **************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:05 +0000 (0:00:00.086)       0:02:27.193 ****
amazon-ebs: changed: [hostname] => (item=clamav)
amazon-ebs: ok: [hostname] => (item=clamav-update)
amazon-ebs: changed: [hostname] => (item=clamav-scanner-systemd)
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Run freshclam after ClamAV packages change.] ********
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amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:14 +0000 (0:00:09.465)       0:02:36.659 ****
amazon-ebs: changed: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : include_tasks] **************************************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:35 +0000 (0:00:20.893)       0:02:57.552 ****
amazon-ebs: included: /root/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.clamav/tasks/setup-RedHat.yml for hostname
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Ensure Freshclam service is available.] *************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:35 +0000 (0:00:00.162)       0:02:57.715 ****
amazon-ebs: changed: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Reload systemd after adding service.] ***************
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:35 +0000 (0:00:00.109)       0:02:57.825 ****
amazon-ebs: ok: [hostname]
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Change configuration for the ClamAV daemon.] ********
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:36 +0000 (0:00:00.164)       0:02:57.989 ****
amazon-ebs: changed: [hostname] => (item={'regexp': '^.*Example$', 'state': 'absent'})
amazon-ebs: changed: [hostname] => (item={'regexp': '^.*LocalSocket .*$', 'line': 'LocalSocket /var/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock'})
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: TASK [geerlingguy.clamav : Ensure ClamAV daemon is running (if configured).] ***
amazon-ebs: Thursday 16 September 2021  05:27:36 +0000 (0:00:00.195)       0:02:58.185 ****
amazon-ebs: fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to start service clamd@scan: Job for [email protected] failed because the control process exited with error code. See \"systemctl status [email protected]\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.
"}

cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

/var/log/messages

Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 systemd: Starting clamd scanner (scan) daemon...
Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: Received 0 file descriptor(s) from systemd.
Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: clamd daemon 0.103.3 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64)
Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: Log file size limited to 1048576 bytes.
Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav
Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: Not loading PUA signatures.
Sep 16 14:54:52 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: Bytecode: Security mode set to "TrustSigned".
Sep 16 14:55:07 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: Loaded 8565181 signatures.
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: LOCAL: Could not create socket directory: /var/run/clamd.scan: Permission denied
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd: ERROR: LOCAL: Could not create socket directory: /var/run/clamd.scan: Permission denied
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd: ERROR: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock could not be bound: No such file or directory
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 clamd[25456]: LOCAL: Socket file /var/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock could not be bound: No such file or directory
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 systemd: [email protected]: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 systemd: Failed to start clamd scanner (scan) daemon.
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 systemd: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 systemd: [email protected] failed.
Sep 16 14:55:10 ip-172-31-42-25 systemd: [email protected] holdoff time over, scheduling restart.

ls -la /var/run
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 6 Oct 30  2020 /var/run -> ../run

Now, I'm thinking if the package in remi repository has changed and it stopped working.

(In this case I'm building image from base centos 7 image) Simply using one of the last working images I've built works fine

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The CI is also broke, yours failed for a unrelated reason (ubuntu failed first and canceled the build on centos7)

I've forked the repo to my account, which shows the same errors https://github.com/Lusitaniae/ansible-role-clamav/runs/3623755748?check_suite_focus=true

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Creating the directory in advance seems to solve it for Centos (may require different user/group for Ubuntu)

https://github.com/Lusitaniae/ansible-role-clamav/runs/3623866884

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One of the last changes from remi repo
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1825029

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