Re: Squi error: WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Guido Serassio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on Async I/O port on SquidNT.
> After two hours of polymix-1 WebPoligraph test without errors, Squid starts
> to give the following error in cache.log:
>
> 2002/05/13 19:35:11| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
> 2002/05/13 19:35:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
> 2002/05/13 19:35:19| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
>
> After Squid restart, in normal run, sometimes this error is logged again.
>
> First, what means it ?

each swap file has a header of meta data: MD5, URL, part of StoreEntry.

The error means that meta data was missing or corrupted

> And what can be the cause, corrupt cache ?

Possibly.

Or a race condition maybe.

You could add some debugging to storeSwapMetaUnpack() to track it down.
Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 12:46:50 MDT