Re: [squid-users] Help! FATAL: xstrdup: tried to dup a NULL pointer!

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Fernando Sclavo wrote:

> Dear all, I´m running Squid on a FC3 SMP, and the server is a Proliant
> 5500 multiprocessor.
> Recently, my squid is terminating abnormally with the following error:
>
> FATAL: xstrdup: tried to dup a NULL pointer!
>
> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally.

First upgrade to a current version (2.5.STABLE9 is the current release).

The version you are using is known to exibit this problem if certain
patches had been applied (early versions of the concurrent_dns_lookups
patch): http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=852 but it is not
clear from your report if any patches had been applied.

second if the problem persists, file a bug report per the instructions in
Squid FAQ 11.19 Sending in Squid bug reports
<url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.19>

> Why until these last days Squid doesn´t fail? It is running on a
> production enviroment since 3 months ago.

Maybe one of your users changed behaviour slightly, or there was a
configuration change?

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 14:43:28 MDT