#4523 Can't initialize Squid cache because cache_dir won't be set by Webmin.

[Hadi Rezaee]

Hello.
I installed squid with Webmin and made a user for it, and tried to initialize the cache, but i got this:

2014/12/17 16:07:30 kid1| Creating missing swap directories
2014/12/17 16:07:30 kid1| No cache_dir stores are configured.

So apparently you can fix this by login into ssh and editting squid's config file itself, by uncommenting the cache_dir line.
Perhaps it'd be awesome if Webmin did this by default?

Cheers
Hadi

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks for pointing this out - the cache directory will be automatically un-commented in the next Webmin release.

[Dmitriy Vladimirovich]

bug back again
when initializing cache on fresh install Webmin and Ubuntu 14.04 x64 got:

nitializing the Squid cache with the command squid3 -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf -z ..
FATAL: Bungled /etc/squid3/squid.conf line 3001: cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
Squid Cache (Version 3.3.8): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.009 seconds = 0.006 user + 0.003 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 149360 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
Failed to re-start Squid ..
FATAL: Bungled /etc/squid3/squid.conf line 3001: cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
Squid Cache (Version 3.3.8): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.010 seconds = 0.003 user + 0.006 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 36368 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0

problem imho when uncommenting lines near cache dir settings in /etc/squid3/squid.conf:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Default:

No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.

Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.

cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
cache_dir is used.
cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 100 16 256
cache_dir is used.</max-size=bytes></max-size=bytes>

TAG: store_dir_select_algorithm

<----->How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response

<----->object will fit into more than one.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Jamie Cameron]

Ok, that looks like a separate bug - which I'll fix in the next Webmin release.

[DDT2007]

The bug that Dmitriy posted about back in March 2015 is still with us using Webmin 1.770 and Squid 3.3.8 in Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10:

FATAL: Bungled /etc/squid3/squid.conf line 3037: cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
Squid Cache (Version 3.3.8): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.005 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.005 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 145056 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0

Bungled conf file includes these lines:

#   cache_dir is used.
cache_dir is used.
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 100 16 256
cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
#

Please fix this bug once and for all.

[Jamie Cameron]

The next Webmin release will better check for valid cache_dir lines, which should fix this once and for all.

[Rodrigo Ariel Pizarro]

Hello, i repor this same problem, when are u fixed, when is the prox release? thnks

[Jim Layton]

This still exists. Please see this thread that I posted. This is maddening!
https://sourceforge.net/p/webadmin/discussion/600155/thread/828077c7/

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks, I will follow up on that thread.