[squid-users] ERROR: No running copy!

Help help!

The version of squid that was available for my distro (2.6.STABLE1) didn't
work for me, I installed it with apt-get on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 for amd64
kernel 2.6.17.

So I removed it and installed 2.6.STABLE9 from source. I cannot get it to
run.

when I do /etc/init.d/squid start it says [ok] and if I do /usr/sbin/squid
it returns a command prompt (no errors). squid -k parse also returns no
errors.

However squid -k check, squid -k reload (etc) give this error:

squid: ERROR: No running copy

/var/log/squid/cache.log has not been touched since I uninstalled the old
squid. /var/log/messages has some things in it that i found very unhelpful:

Mar 6 18:51:36 proxy squid[2286]: Squid Parent: child process 2288 started
Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started
Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:39 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2290 started
Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started
Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:42 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2292 started
Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2294]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started
Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2294]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 2294 started
Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2292]: Squid Parent: child process 2294 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:45 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2292 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2296]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started
Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2296]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2296 started
Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2290]: Squid Parent: child process 2296 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:48 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2290 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2298]: Squid Parent: child process 0 started
Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2298]: Squid Parent: child process -1 exited
with status 1
Mar 6 18:51:51 proxy squid[2288]: Squid Parent: child process 2298 started

I have read the FAQ and the information that it has does not apply to me
(i.e. find the PID and put it in a file)

root@proxy:/var# ps -fu squid
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY
root@proxy:/var#

as you can see there is nothing running.

My squidGuards start normally then stop immediately:
2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard 1.2.0 started (1173225156.467)
2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard ready for requests (1173225156.489)
2007-03-06 18:52:36 [2404] squidGuard stopped (1173225156.733)

Please help!!
Received on Tue Mar 06 2007 - 17:03:57 MST