I have a solution to this problem! First off, I figured out why cache.log and access.log were 0 bytes: It turns out squid 2.6.STABLE1 puts its logs in /var/log/squid, while 2.6.STABLE9 puts them in another directory altogether. I think it was /var/spool/squid/logs. It was entirely by accident that I happened to find them. The problem of no running copy: The first line of the log I posted below was a clue: DNS tests failed. It turns out my routing tables were somehow messed up. I could ping and lynx, though, which made it more confusing. Once I fixed the routing tables, squid was able to start normally. I now have *yet another* problem with squid, which I will post in a new message. Thanks for the help. -----Original Message----- From: Angela Burrell [mailto:angela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: March 7, 2007 5:45 PM To: squid users Subject: RE: ERROR: No running copy! I have some additional information to report. First of all, the cache.log and access.log are still 0 bytes. I ran squid with -X -s (Xtra super logging, log to syslog) and got the following new error messages in my /var/log/syslog file: (because it is in syslog I do not know if all messages were generated from squid or not; also because the error msgs are redundant I have only copied a single line of each) Mar 7 17:17:10 proxy squid[27306]: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed. Mar 7 17:17:10 proxy squid[27304]: Squid Parent: child process 27306 exited due to signal 6 Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy (squid): Memory pools are 'off'; limit: 0.00 MB Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy (squid): diskd started Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy squid[27375]: Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE9 for amd64-debian-linux-gnu... Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy squid[27375]: Process ID 27375 Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy squid[27304]: Squid Parent: child process 27375 started Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy squid[27375]: With 1024 file descriptors available Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy squid[27375]: Using epoll for the IO loop Mar 7 17:17:13 proxy squid[27375]: Performing DNS Tests... Mar 7 17:17:16 proxy squid[27377]: execvp failed: (2) No such file or directory Mar 7 17:17:16 proxy squid[27377]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started Mar 7 17:17:16 proxy squid[27377]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited with status 1 Mar 7 17:17:16 proxy squid[27377]: Exiting due to repeated, frequent failures I hope this rings a bell with somebody. I'm stuck here. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: Angela Burrell [mailto:angela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: March 7, 2007 8:44 AM To: Samit Cc: squid users Subject: RE: ERROR: No running copy! After I uninstalled the old squid, I reset them to zero (rm cache.log, touch cache.log) and same for access.log. They are still zero. -----Original Message----- From: Samit [mailto:janasamit@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: March 6, 2007 11:43 PM To: Angela Burrell Cc: squid users Subject: Re: ERROR: No running copy! What is the file size of the log files inside /var/log/squid? Angela Burrell wrote: > Help help! > > The version of squid that was available for my distro (2.6.STABLE1) didn't > work for me, I installed it with apt-get on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 for amd64 > kernel 2.6.17. > > So I removed it and installed 2.6.STABLE9 from source. I cannot get it to > run. > > when I do /etc/init.d/squid start it says [ok] and if I do /usr/sbin/squid > it returns a command prompt (no errors). squid -k parse also returns no > errors. > > However squid -k check, squid -k reload (etc) give this error: > > squid: ERROR: No running copy > > /var/log/squid/cache.log has not been touched since I uninstalled the old > squid. /var/log/messages has some things in it that i found very unhelpful: > > Mar 6 18:51:36 proxy squid[2286]: Squid Parent: child process 2288 started > Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2290 started > Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2292 started > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2294]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2294]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 2294 started > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 2294 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2292 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2296]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2296]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2296 started > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2296 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2290 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2298]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started > Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2298]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited > with status 1 > Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2298 started > > I have read the FAQ and the information that it has does not apply to me > (i.e. find the PID and put it in a file) > > root@proxy:/var# ps -fu squid > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY > root@proxy:/var# > > as you can see there is nothing running. > > My squidGuards start normally then stop immediately: > 2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard 1.2.0 started (1173225156.467) > 2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard ready for requests (1173225156.489) > 2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard stopped (1173225156.733) > > Please help!! > >
