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alyssaeliyah
Asked: 2019-03-29 19:19:59 +0800 CST

Squid Proxy Server Error : Upon Starting

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I got this error upon starting Squid Proxy Server using the command sudo squid -z

fatal: ipc::mem::segment::create failed to shm_open(/squid-cf__metadata.shm): 13 permission denied

How shall I fix it? Im using version 3.5.26 of Squid. I tried any fixes I found in the web but nothing works. I tried implementing the fix below I found in the web:

Just add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 After that use (as root): # mount shm

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Another possible fix on the web is error reading squid.pid

squid: ERROR: Could not read pid file /var/run/squid.pid: (13) Permission denied

Unfortunately, as I look in my directory, I could not find squid.pid. How will I get my Squid working? Thanks.

server proxy squid 14.04 squid-deb-proxy

1 Answers

  1. fatal: ipc::mem::segment::create failed to shm_open()

    This error is related to permission denied of accessing a shared memory segments (man shm_open). The issue is, that you probably run squid process with the wrong user (either before or now).

    The solution is to remove .shm files from /dev/shm:

    $ sudo rm -v /dev/shm/squid*.shm

    To run squid with the right user (e.g. proxy), use sudo, make sure your cache_effective_user is correct in the config file (squid.conf), your cache and log directories are owned by that user.

    Check the following Docker container at sameersbn/docker-squid as the working example.

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