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    Enable core file dumps when an application crashes or segmentation faults

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      Do you see the process coredumping in the system log?

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      • JonathanLeeJ
        JonathanLee
        last edited by

        No it starts swap and that file goes to cache folder weird right?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Not sure what you mean. pfSense starts to SWAP? What file goes to the cache folder?

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          • JonathanLeeJ
            JonathanLee @stephenw10
            last edited by JonathanLee

            @stephenw10 squid does a swap log squid does not pfSense, it generates a swap.log file or something in the cache folder. After I bound it to the loopback and not just the LAN I have not seen the segmentation fault. It occurred when I was viewing the squid status area the one showing active connections. So I think it needs to be also bound to loopback and not just lan. Again I still don’t feel comfortable that it didn’t creat a log, do I need to chmod, and or user group permissions for the folder?

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Ah, hmm, no idea what that is then!

              If you don't see the process segfaulting in the system log I wouldn't expect to see any core files.

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              • JonathanLeeJ
                JonathanLee @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10

                n 11 10:29:15 kernel pid 4993 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6
                Jun 11 10:29:15 (squid-1) 4993 FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying. listening port: 127.0.0.1:3128
                Jun 11 10:23:13 kernel pid 43536 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6
                Jun 11 10:23:05 (squid-1) 43536 FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying. connection: conn749025 local=192.168.1.1:3128 remote=192.168.1.5:59502 flags=1
                Jun 11 10:19:00 sshguard 98282

                This is the error it is a segment fault right?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Oh, yes you need Squid to listen on localhost to see the stats from it. That's how it is queried.

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                  • JonathanLeeJ
                    JonathanLee @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 so that solved my error, normally would that generate a corefile? Squid developers said I can manually generate a core dump also to get the stack

                    For example, if you want to abort a Squid worker process that has OS process ID (PID) 12345, you may do something like this:
                    
                       sudo kill -SIGABRT 12345
                    
                    You can use "ps" or "top" commands to learn PIDs of processes you want to signal.
                    
                    

                    When I did this it also showed no core file.

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                    • JonathanLeeJ
                      JonathanLee @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 that swap file it creates is not readable it’s compiled information also. Just a side note

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        If a process aborts and creates a core file you should see something like:

                        Mar 19 23:14:22 	kernel 		pid 76582 (php-fpm), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) 
                        
                        May  7 15:15:47 fw1 kernel: pid 65129 (pftop), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
                        
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                        • JonathanLeeJ
                          JonathanLee @stephenw10
                          last edited by JonathanLee

                          @stephenw10 do you know how or what commands are used to manually trigger it for squid?

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Nope not something I've ever tried. Did you try the command they gave you?

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              @JonathanLee said in Enable core file dumps when an application crashes or segmentation faults:

                              coredump_dir /root

                              Where did you set that?

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                              • JonathanLeeJ
                                JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                last edited by JonathanLee

                                @stephenw10 yes it showed blank from command input in GUI it killed the process but no core file it didn’t generate one when I used that command

                                I am going to try this one recommend by a freeBSD forum user

                                
                                killall -11 squid worked for me (as root)
                                
                                

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                                • JonathanLeeJ
                                  JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                  last edited by JonathanLee

                                  @stephenw10 advanced options on squid configure gui area, it takes when I run squid -k parse also

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    It tries to dump the core for both the main and child squid processes here but fails with:

                                    Jun 12 19:02:08 	kernel 		pid 80887 (squid), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 6 (no core dump - bad address)
                                    Jun 12 19:01:48 	kernel 		pid 33418 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6 (no core dump - bad address) 
                                    
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                                    • JonathanLeeJ
                                      JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                      last edited by JonathanLee

                                      @stephenw10 that looks like a permissions issue with Squid I wonder if we set it to squid logs location if that would work? Bad address? Does it mean path?

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        Yes I assume it's trying to dump somewhere it can't or has nothing configured.

                                        I don't expect to set that value in the Squid config. It shows the same for other processes. Seems like a FreeBSD env value missing.

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                                        • JonathanLeeJ
                                          JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                          last edited by

                                          @stephenw10 I bet it is like field of dreams for code, if you code it developers will come…

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                                          • JonathanLeeJ
                                            JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                            last edited by

                                            @stephenw10

                                            killall -11 squid

                                            mine shows no information on core anything...

                                            Jun 12 12:11:40 kernel pid 84728 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6
                                            Jun 12 12:11:40 kernel pid 84677 (squid), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11

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