failed to unpack meta data - new style

Hi,

for numerous releases now I've been plagued by the "failed to unpack meta
data"-problem. Even recreating the (COSS-) storage hasn't helped. The
most recent version v2.7stable3 has been more elaborate about it:

Startup:

2008/07/05 19:27:51| Ready to serve requests.
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (0 % completed - 1/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (5 % completed - 52/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (10 % completed - 103/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (15 % completed - 154/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (20 % completed - 205/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (25 % completed - 256/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (29 % completed - 307/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (34 % completed - 358/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (39 % completed - 409/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (44 % completed - 460/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (49 % completed - 511/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (54 % completed - 562/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (59 % completed - 613/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (64 % completed - 664/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (69 % completed - 715/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (74 % completed - 766/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (79 % completed - 817/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (84 % completed - 868/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (89 % completed - 919/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (94 % completed - 970/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (99 % completed - 1021/1024 stripes)
2008/07/05 19:27:51| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.

... after a while:

2008/07/05 23:47:49| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 00:05:21| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 00:55:19| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 00:56:27| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 00:56:28| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 01:06:35| sslReadClient: FD 169: read failure: (10053) WSAECONNABORTED, Software caused connection abort.
2008/07/06 01:16:08| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 13:03:58| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 13:03:58| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 14:15:44| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 14:15:45| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 14:15:45| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

(the WARNING repeating over and over, hundreds of times)

... inbetween:

2008/07/06 16:58:28| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 16:58:28| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 16:58:29| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 17:03:07| WARNING: 1 swapin MD5 mismatches
2008/07/06 17:03:07| storeClientReadHeader: no URL!
2008/07/06 17:03:08| storeClientReadHeader: no URL!
2008/07/06 17:09:01| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 17:15:34| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 17:15:35| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and:

2008/07/06 18:36:43| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 18:36:43| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 18:36:43| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 18:36:43| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 18:36:43| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 20:33:26| Invalid chunk header '
'
2008/07/06 20:40:14| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:40:57| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:41:12| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:41:29| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:41:39| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:42:32| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:42:54| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:43:17| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:44:08| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:50:44| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:51:16| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:53:12| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:53:38| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:54:24| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 20:55:14| Invalid chunk header '
'
2008/07/06 20:59:42| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 21:02:44| Invalid chunk header '
'
2008/07/06 21:03:01| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 21:05:34| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 21:06:00| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 21:07:27| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 21:14:24| Invalid chunk header '
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2008/07/06 21:14:41| Invalid chunk header '
'
2008/07/06 21:20:44| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 23:19:46| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 23:52:45| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 23:52:45| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/06 23:52:45| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

(empty lines sic)

... and:

2008/07/07 11:40:32| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 11:40:33| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 11:40:33| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 11:40:33| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (-22)!
2008/07/07 11:40:33| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 11:40:33| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 11:40:34| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and:

2008/07/07 13:10:11| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:12| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:16| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (-92)!
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: swapfile header too small
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:10:16| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and:

2008/07/07 13:39:54| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (-1)!
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:39:55| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and (I like this one!):

2008/07/07 13:54:23| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:54:23| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:54:23| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:54:23| storeSwapMetaUnpack: insane length (325144897)!
2008/07/07 13:54:23| WARNING: swapfile header too small
2008/07/07 13:54:23| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:54:23| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 13:54:24| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and:

2008/07/07 15:18:17| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 15:18:17| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 15:18:17| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 15:18:36| httpReadReply: Excess data from "GET [URL cut]"
2008/07/07 15:18:36| httpReadReply: Excess data from "GET [URL cut]"
2008/07/07 15:18:36| httpReadReply: Excess data from "GET [URL cut]"
2008/07/07 15:18:40| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 15:18:47| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/07 15:18:47| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and:

2008/07/08 15:18:11| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:19:10| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:19:11| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:18| ctx: enter level 0: '[URL cut]'
2008/07/08 15:28:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:18| ctx: exit level 0
2008/07/08 15:28:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:18| ctx: enter level 0: '[URL cut]'
2008/07/08 15:28:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:18| ctx: exit level 0
2008/07/08 15:28:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:18| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:28:19| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and:

2008/07/08 15:55:14| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:55:14| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:55:15| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:55:57| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (-83)!
2008/07/08 15:55:57| WARNING: swapfile header too small
2008/07/08 15:56:08| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 15:58:53| Invalid chunk header '
'
2008/07/08 16:00:02| Invalid chunk header '
'
2008/07/08 16:00:31| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data
2008/07/08 16:00:31| WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

... and so on. Just now I've restarted squid:

2008/07/09 10:33:25| Ready to serve requests.
2008/07/09 10:33:25| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (0 % completed - 1/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:34:05| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (5 % completed - 52/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:34:31| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (10 % completed - 103/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:35:07| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (15 % completed - 154/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:35:40| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (20 % completed - 205/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:35:54| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (-22)!
2008/07/09 10:36:04| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (25 % completed - 256/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:36:25| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (-85)!
2008/07/09 10:36:33| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (29 % completed - 307/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:36:55| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (34 % completed - 358/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:36:56| storeSwapMetaUnpack: bad type (69)!
2008/07/09 10:37:08| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (39 % completed - 409/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:37:23| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (44 % completed - 460/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:37:59| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (49 % completed - 511/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:38:22| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (54 % completed - 562/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:38:32| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (59 % completed - 613/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:38:45| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (64 % completed - 664/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:38:54| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (69 % completed - 715/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:05| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (74 % completed - 766/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:13| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (79 % completed - 817/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:24| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (84 % completed - 868/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:34| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (89 % completed - 919/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:43| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (94 % completed - 970/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:53| COSS: d:/Proxy/squid.coss/coss.dat: Rebuilding (99 % completed - 1021/1024 stripes)
2008/07/09 10:39:53| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.

Can anybody make sense from this?

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Alto Speckhardt
mailto:Alto.Speckhardt_at_gmx.de