I just had the same problem when upgrading. Since I had seen this bug before starting my upgrade I did a /etc/init.d/spamassassin stop before starting the upgrade but still had the same error.
Taking a look it seems that I still had a child that was running: audio:~/bin# ps waux | grep spam qscand 2764 0.1 22.0 38156 13432 ? SN Jun10 6:11 spamd child root 5640 0.0 0.9 1836 596 pts/0 S+ 08:42 0:00 grep spam I killed it and then SA was able to start without any errors. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]