Squid +pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

[Vasil Dimov]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:15:54AM -0500, Edwin L. Culp wrote:
> 4 Current servers running current and squid-2.5.11_3 that had no 
> problems maybe a month ago are now dumping core and logging the 
> following:
> 
> +pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
> 
> I have no idea where to begin looking.  From the squid list and saw 
> where it could be caused by persistent connections on some platforms so 
> I turned them off and there was no change.
> 
> All the machines are running up to date ports, with kernel and userland 
> no more that a week old and there are both Intel and amd processors.  
> One box has multiple processors so it doesn't seem to be a hardware 
> issue due to the diversity. Any help or suggestions for what I might 
> try will be very much appreciated.
> 
> ed

You should firstly locate the core file and get a backtrace with gdb.
Compiling as much as possible stuff with -g (and without -O) and
preventing strip(1) in the install step will help you to get more
useful backtrace.