#861530 c-icap: Misleading error message if c-icap is running out of temp. diskspace

Package:
c-icap
Source:
c-icap
Description:
ICAP server implementation
Submitter:
Roland Schnabel
Date:
2026-09-07 17:43:05 UTC
Severity:
minor
Tags:
#861530#5
Date:
2017-04-30 11:29:05 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?
Configure c-icap with module libc-icap-mod-virus-scan

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Configuration:
MaxServers			10
ThreadsPerChild			10
ServiceAlias  avscan virus_scan?allow204=on&sizelimit=off&mode=simple
virus_scan.MaxObjectSize	5M
TmpDir 				/tmp
Free diskspace in /tmp: 700 MB
Downloading a file via squid3 that is larger than 700 MB

* What was the outcome of this action?
Log entry in c-icap logfile:
"Bug in the service. Please report to the service author!!!!"

* What outcome did you expect instead?
Log entry in c-icap logfile:
"Running out of temporary diskspace" or "Skipping c-icap module because file is too large for temp. diskspace"
Max. required temp. diskspace of above c-icap configuration is 500 MB. Free diskspace is 700 MB. So temp.
diskspace would be enough. But because of the ServiceAlias option for virus_scan "sizelimit=off" the c-icap
configuration for max. temp. diskspace is ignored. c-icap tries to download the file runs out of temp.
diskspaceand logs this very misleading error message. This makes it very hard to detect this error if you
have e.g. a large number of squid users that report infrequent error messages in their browser "internal
server error" and they are concurrently only downloading small files over squid.

#861530#10
Date:
2017-05-02 09:49:00 UTC
From:
To:
2017-04-30 13:29 GMT+02:00 Roland Schnabel <debianbug128@rolandschnabel.de>:

Hello,

OK. thanks for your report.Can you send this upstream? I won't have
time to deal with it soon.

Regards

#861530#15
Date:
2026-09-07 17:42:14 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package c-icap has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1147087

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

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