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FATAL: The url_rewriter helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!

i installed squid and videocache
now when i try to start squid it does not start
i startd in debug mode and heres the output:

vpro:/home/ztel# /usr/sbin/squid -NCd10
2009/06/17 17:57:02| Starting Squid Cache version 2.7.STABLE3 for i386-debian-linux-gnu...
2009/06/17 17:57:02| Process ID 3284
2009/06/17 17:57:02| With 1024 file descriptors available
2009/06/17 17:57:02| Using epoll for the IO loop
2009/06/17 17:57:02| Performing DNS Tests...
2009/06/17 17:57:02| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2009/06/17 17:57:02| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 42584, FD 6
2009/06/17 17:57:02| Adding nameserver 10.0.0.2 from /etc/resolv.conf
2009/06/17 17:57:02| helperOpenServers: Starting 7 'python' processes
2009/06/17 17:57:03| User-Agent logging is disabled.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Referer logging is disabled.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| logfileOpen: opening log /var/log/squid/access.log
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 18
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Target number of buckets: 393
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Using 8192 Store buckets
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec
2009/06/17 17:57:03| logfileOpen: opening log /var/log/squid/store.log
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (CLEAN)
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Using Least Load store dir selection
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Loaded Icons.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 20.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8000, FD 21.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8080, FD 22.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 43210, FD 23.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 24.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| HTCP Disabled.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| WCCP Disabled.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Ready to serve requests.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| WARNING: url_rewriter #1 (FD 7) exited
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Done reading /var/spool/squid swaplog (5 entries)
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 5 Entries scanned
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 0 Invalid entries.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 0 With invalid flags.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 5 Objects loaded.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 0 Objects expired.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 0 Objects cancelled.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 0 Duplicate URLs purged.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Took 0.0 seconds ( 145.6 objects/sec).
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Beginning Validation Procedure
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Completed Validation Procedure
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Validated 5 Entries
2009/06/17 17:57:03| store_swap_size = 20k
2009/06/17 17:57:03| WARNING: url_rewriter #3 (FD 9) exited
2009/06/17 17:57:03| WARNING: url_rewriter #2 (FD exited
2009/06/17 17:57:03| WARNING: url_rewriter #5 (FD 11) exited
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Too few url_rewriter processes are running
2009/06/17 17:57:03| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Finished. Wrote 5 entries.
2009/06/17 17:57:03| Took 0.0 seconds (34246.6 entries/sec).
FATAL: The url_rewriter helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!

Please help

3 Answers

I overcame this problem by doing the following
I made the owner of /var/spool/squid and all subdirectories: user: squid and group: squid with all permissions

i did the following

#sudo nautilus (i like gui)

browse to /var/spool/squid and right click and change owner and group to squid
the browse to /var/log/squid and did the same

this is wholly a file permissions error methinks

marklodge's comment was right on! In my case, I had update the BlackLists used by SquidGuard and had mistakenly assigned the owner of the file to a different user and not the Squid user. I corrected the mistake and the problem went away. Thanks marklodge for your help on this matter.

Hey.....guys....found a way to make it work.

DISABLE SELINUX!!!!!!!

edit /etc/selinux/config and change the SELINUX line to SELINUX=disabled:

REBOOT!

You should be good to go!