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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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            • JonathanLeeJ
              JonathanLee @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 try to put it in quotes like this

              coredump_dir "/var/squid/logs"

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              • JonathanLeeJ
                JonathanLee
                last edited by JonathanLee

                Screenshot 2024-06-12 at 12.24.15.png

                could this be my issue with it not even trying?

                Screenshot 2024-06-12 at 12.25.52.png

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @JonathanLee
                  last edited by

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

                  killall -11 squid

                  mine shows no information on core anything...

                  Try using kill -6 or kill -11 against the PID rather than all 'squid' processes.

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                  • JonathanLeeJ
                    JonathanLee @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10

                    
                    Jun 12 13:40:58	kernel		pid 88818 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6
                    Jun 12 13:40:58	(squid-1)	88818	FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying. listening port: 192.168.1.1:3128
                    Jun 12 13:39:43	kernel		pid 51752 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6
                    Jun 12 13:39:43	(squid-1)	51752	FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying.
                    Jun 12 13:39:11	kernel		pid 17654 (squid), jid 0, uid 100: exited on signal 6
                    Jun 12 13:38:05	check_reload_status	480	Reloading filter
                    

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Hmm, are you testing this on your 2100? In 23.09.1?

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                      • JonathanLeeJ
                        JonathanLee @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 No that version disabled my crypt chip I am still on 23.05.01 it is the only version that works for everything I need

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                        • JonathanLeeJ
                          JonathanLee @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10 squids uid is squid and we are running commands as root does that matter?

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Nope that should be fine. This isn't a Squid specific issue, applies to any process I've tested this with. So far.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Hmm, maybe not. This does seem to be a permissions issue. Processes run as root will coredump as expected. Or at least try, some fail with lack of space for me.

                              Most services run as separate users though and cannot.

                              [24.08-DEVELOPMENT][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: ps aux | grep apc
                              root     2546   0.0  0.1   25796   5420  -  Ss   14:13    0:00.16 /usr/local/sbin/apcupsd
                              root    67005   0.0  0.0   13040   2664  0  S+   14:32    0:00.00 grep apc
                              [24.08-DEVELOPMENT][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: kill -11 2546
                              [24.08-DEVELOPMENT][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: ls -ls
                              total 421
                                5 -rw-r--r--  2 root wheel     1011 Jun 11 10:33 .cshrc
                                1 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel        0 Jun 13 14:13 .hushlogin
                                1 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel       66 Jun 11 10:33 .k5login
                                5 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel      316 Jun 11 10:33 .login
                                5 -rw-r--r--  2 root wheel     1199 Jun 13 14:13 .profile
                                5 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel     2135 Jun 13 14:13 .shrc
                                1 drwx------  2 root wheel        3 Oct 20  2023 .ssh
                                5 -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel     3402 Jun 13 14:13 .tcshrc
                              397 -rw-------  1 root wheel 22425600 Jun 13 14:32 apcupsd.core
                                1 drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel        2 Oct 20  2023 backup
                              
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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Though the main Squid process runs as root... 🤔

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                                • JonathanLeeJ
                                  JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10 weird right it should core dump

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                                  • JonathanLeeJ
                                    JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                    last edited by

                                    @stephenw10

                                    https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15555#change-73638

                                    It’s for all of them Steve wheeler said, it’s a bug.

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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:

                                      https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15555#change-73638

                                      Yeah it appeared to be only non-root processes but the main Squid process is run as root (which is bad!) and still fails to create the core dump.

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                                      • JonathanLeeJ
                                        JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                        last edited by

                                        @stephenw10 we should still get core dumps right if it’s enabled. We found a 🐞, it’s not just squid.

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