Hi , I am new on using IPFire , after installation without any issue , I did opened Status > Services I found that Web Proxy is Stopped , when I did try to start it using /etc/init.d/squid start No errors comes out , then I did check the status using /etc/init.d/squid status it returns ( “/usr/sbin/squid is not running.” and “/usr/lib/squid/unlinked is not running.”) then I did Try to use update and install squid may something went wrong during installation using pakfire update then pakfire install squid it returned with message in Yellow (PakFIRE WARN: The pak “squid" is not know. Please try running “pakfire update”.) followed by another line with a Red font (PAKFIRE ERROR: No packages to install. Exiting….) .
can you help Do i need re-install IPFire again or this issue can solved using some commands or what is the solution ?
System Logs included from Web Proxy section below:
IPFire diagnostics
Section: squid
Date: November 26, 2025
06:33:13 squid[2489]: Squid Parent: will start 1 kids
06:33:13 squid[2489]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 2493 started
06:33:13 squid[2489]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2493 exited with status 0
06:33:14 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: will start 1 kids
06:33:14 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 2504 started
06:33:15 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2504 exited with status 1
06:33:15 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 2545 started
06:33:16 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2545 exited with status 1
06:33:16 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 2627 started
06:33:17 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2627 exited with status 1
06:33:17 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 2631 started
06:33:18 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2631 exited with status 1
06:33:18 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: (squid-1) process 2635 started
06:33:19 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2635 exited with status 1
06:33:19 squid[2501]: Squid Parent: squid-1 process 2635 will not be restarted for 3600 seconds due to repeated, frequent failures
06:33:19 squid[2501]: Exiting due to repeated, frequent failures
thanks in advance
Hallo @mmahmoudaly
Welcome to the IPFire community.
From a fresh installation, you need to configure the web proxy on the WUI (Web User Interface) to meet your specific requirements. The following documentation page should help.
https://www.ipfire.org/docs/configuration/network/proxy/wui_conf
After configuring the web proxy on the WUI page then you start it by pressing one of the buttons at the bottom of that WUI page.
That is because Pakfire is used to install additional Add-ons and Squid is a core program that is always installed.
From your input it looks like you were using pakfire from the command line, which can be done but IPFire is designed to be used via the WUI page. The following documentation link gives more info on Pakfire as used via the WUI.
https://www.ipfire.org/docs/configuration/ipfire/pakfire
As you are new to IPFire I would also suggest having a look through the substantial documentation that is available.
https://www.ipfire.org/docs
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Thank you for your quick reply ,I have tried and configure the mandatory fields on web proxy page , then pressed Save and Restart . Same result in (Status > Services I found that Web Proxy is Stopped as in the screenshot , Thanks again for help
As the web proxy restart can take a bit of time (10 to 15 seconds) can I confirm that you waited till the “Waiting for” block was no longer being shown at the bottom left hand side of your Web Proxy WUI page.
If yes then as you were originally trying to start squid via the command line and that may have left it in a non-working state, it might be worth rebooting your IPFire and then see what the status is showing.
If it is still showing stopped then you will need to show some screenshots of your Web Proxy WUI page for further suggestions.
Hi Adolf , Thank You for your help , you waited till the “Waiting for” disappeared , then moved to check the Services status for Web Proxy and It was started as you well see in the 1st Screenshot
then 5 seconds later i did refresh the status page and the Web proxy Stopped again as you will see in the screenshot 2, Now what screenshots are required to solve this issue on my machine?
That is very weird that it starts and runs for some seconds and then stops.
Normally if something is missing in the configuration it will just not start.
To start but then stop suggests something that allows it to start but then is found not to be correct. Normally some syntax or related fault would be expected to give an error on the WUI configuration page and therefore it wouldn’t even accept the changes into the configuration file.
If you could show screenshots of the Web Proxy WUI page we can see if there is anything obvious in the configuration that pops out to people.
You will probably need to do several screenshots as the Web Proxy WUI page is quite long.
In your initial post you mentioned about trying to start squid from the command line and then getting the status of squid. Those on their own would not be expected to cause this type of problem.
Can you confirm that you did not edit or change ownerships/permissions of any file from the command line?
EDIT:
I think it would also be good to see the system logs for the web proxy after the web proxy has been started on the WUI page and has then stopped.
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@bonnietwin Thank You for your help , Issue solved by doing a fresh installation of IPFire .
Thanks again
