[squid-users] Error starting 3.5.16 on FreeBSD-8.4

[Amos Jeffries]

On 7/04/2016 3:16 a.m., Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I am getting the following error in cache.log:
> 
> Squid Cache (Version 3.5.16): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.082 seconds = 0.052 user + 0.030 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 54992 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> FATAL: Ipc::Mem::Segment::create failed to
> shm_open(/opt/squid-3.5/var/run/squid/cf__metadata.shm): (17) File exists
> 
> 
> However, that file doesn't exist.
> 

This can happen if you have a startup script the runs 'squid -z' or
similar just prior to starting the main proxy, and not waiting
sufficiently long for the -z run to finish.

Amos