[squid-users] Squid 2.7.STABLE9 suddenly fails to run

Hi,

Ubuntu 11.10, Squid 2.7.STABLE9-4ubuntu4 on amd64.

This has been running just fine since I set it up several weeks ago,
and now today it won't run on boot or if started manually with init.d
or service. The error messages are:

squid[2173]: Unable to open configuration file: /etc/squid/squid.conf:
(13) Permission denied
squid[1551]: storeDirOpenTmpSwapLog: Failed to open swap log.
kernel: [ 46.350141] init: squid main process (1551) killed by ABRT signal

I've changed nothing at all to do with Squid. squid.conf is owned by
"root" user and group, r/w for user only; the swap log (which I assume
is swap.state) is owned by "proxy" user and group.

Only changes today that may have something to do with it are:
installing git through apt-get; installing tvheadend with apt-get;
installed patchutils with apt-get; installed libproc-processtable-perl
with apt-get; and obtaining, building and installing the V4L-DVB
Device Drivers from linuxtv.org (git clone
git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git; cd media_build; ./build; sudo make
install).

Troubleshooting attempted: deleted swap.state; purged git, tvheadend,
patchutils and libproc-processtable-perl packages with "apt-get
purge"; rebooted machine various times.

Any advice? Seems odd it should suddenly just stop working. Thanks.
Received on Thu Feb 09 2012 - 15:26:50 MST