I am running fedora 10 and webmin squid proxy server, after power failure the squid fails to start. i have tried to start it from command line but failed

[root@ ~]# /etc/init.d/squid start
Starting squid: .................... [FAILED]
[root@ ~]# /etc/init.d/squid reload
squid: ERROR: No running copy
[root@~]# /etc/init.d/squid stop
Stopping squid: [FAILED]

how can i start squid again and what is fault or what file had been corrupted by powerfailure

You can run:
to see debug messages when squid tries to start

the results are:

the output results for code
[root@goodheavens ~]# /usr/sbin/squid -Nd1
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.STABLE13 for i386-redhat-linux-gnu...
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Process ID 6427
2009/03/04 15:54:13| With 1024 file descriptors available
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Performing DNS Tests...
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2009/03/04 15:54:13| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 52630, FD 5
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Adding domain Goodheavens2.local from /etc/resolv.conf
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Adding domain Goodheavens2.local from /etc/resolv.conf
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Adding nameserver 10.0.0.3 from /etc/resolv.conf
2009/03/04 15:54:13| User-Agent logging is disabled.
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Referer logging is disabled.
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Target number of buckets: 393
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Using 8192 Store buckets
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (DIRTY)
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Using Least Load store dir selection
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
2009/03/04 15:54:13| Loaded Icons.
2009/03/04 15:54:13| commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to 10.0.0.5:3128: (99) Cannot assign requested address
FATAL: Cannot open HTTP Port
[root@goodheavens ~]#

what need to be done then.

What is the output of the following commands:

rootgoodheavens~]# ifconfig
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:CB:53D:5B
inet addr:10.0.0.41 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:cbff:fe53:dd5b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24810 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19054 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8853977 (8.4 MiB) TX bytes:3446667 (3.2 MiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:26113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6580073 (6.2 MiB) TX bytes:6580073 (6.2 MiB)

[root@goodheavens ~]#
root@goodheavens~]# netstat -tan|grep 3128
returns nothing

Your IP is 10.0.0.41 and squid is configured to listen on 10.0.0.5. That's why it's not starting.
Change the http_port in squid.conf accordingly and try to restart squid.

changed now squid is running. thanks

Glad to see it worked.
Now if you're on a dynamic IP you should use just the port number for http_prot in squid.conf, to avoid similar problems in the future.

Regards

hmm, wouldn't it simply be easier to have the squid server use a static ip (or ip reservation in the dhcp server)?
squid is afterall a proxy, which means that something has to statically point at it, be it your web browser for outbound proxying, or your router for inbound (reverse) proxying
just a thought