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So you have a package and the service is not running. Trying to upgrade/reinstall produces the following:

Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
        pfSense-pkg-squid: 0.4.41 -> 0.4.42 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be upgraded: 1

57 KiB to be downloaded.
[1/1] Fetching pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42.txz: ........ done
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Upgrading pfSense-pkg-squid from 0.4.41 to 0.4.42...
Extracting pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42: .......... done
Removing squid components...
Menu items... done.
Services... Saving updated package information...
overwrite!
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_install_command()...done.
Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
Menu items... done.
Services...

There, it gets stuck till you kill the /usr/local/bin/php -f /etc/rc.packages pfSense-pkg-squid DEINSTALL process. This is logged by syslog:

Oct 16 22:02:56    php        /etc/rc.packages: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamd.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was ''
Oct 16 22:02:51    php        /etc/rc.packages: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was 'squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 15 to process 78563: (3) No such process squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 9 to process 78563: (3) No such process'

Once you've killed the process, the reinstall/upgrade finishes.

Services... done.
Writing configuration... done.
Message from pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42:
Please visit Services - Squid Proxy Server menu to configure the package and enable the proxy.
>>> Cleaning up cache... done.

Trying with reinstall instead:

The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
        pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1
[1/1] Reinstalling pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42...
[1/1] Extracting pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42: .......... done
Removing squid components...
Menu items... done.
Services... 

Zzzzzzzzzzz... Killing the deinstall process makes it move:

Services... Saving updated package information...
overwrite!
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_install_command()...done.
Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Writing configuration... done.
Message from pfSense-pkg-squid-0.4.42:
Please visit Services - Squid Proxy Server menu to configure the package and enable the proxy.
>>> Cleaning up cache... done.

In general, the pkg things gets badly confused here, spawning multiple processes for some reason:

$ ps auxww | grep squid
root    72763   0.0  0.1   13084   2604  -  I    22:02     0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/sbin/pfSense-upgrade -y -l /cf/conf/pkg_log_pfSense-pkg-squid.txt -p /tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock -i pfSense-pkg-squid -f
root    73512   0.0  0.0    6172   1940  -  I    22:02     0:00.00 /usr/bin/lockf -s -t 5 /tmp/pfSense-upgrade.lock /usr/local/libexec/pfSense-upgrade -y -l /cf/conf/pkg_log_pfSense-pkg-squid.txt -p /tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock -i pfSense-pkg-squid -f
root    73670   0.0  0.1   13084   2756  -  I    22:02     0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/libexec/pfSense-upgrade -y -l /cf/conf/pkg_log_pfSense-pkg-squid.txt -p /tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock -i pfSense-pkg-squid -f
root    82869   0.0  0.1   13084   2756  -  I    22:02     0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/libexec/pfSense-upgrade -y -l /cf/conf/pkg_log_pfSense-pkg-squid.txt -p /tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock -i pfSense-pkg-squid -f
root    82886   0.0  0.1   13084   2756  -  I    22:02     0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/libexec/pfSense-upgrade -y -l /cf/conf/pkg_log_pfSense-pkg-squid.txt -p /tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock -i pfSense-pkg-squid -f
root    83293   0.0  0.0    8224   1980  -  I    22:02     0:00.00 tee -a /cf/conf/pkg_log_pfSense-pkg-squid.txt
root    83926   0.0  0.1   10264   3912  -  I    22:02     0:00.00 pkg-static -o EVENT_PIPE=/tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock upgrade -f pfSense-pkg-squid
root    84039   0.0  0.3   26868  13444  -  I    22:02     0:02.15 pkg-static -o EVENT_PIPE=/tmp/pfSense-upgrade.sock upgrade -f pfSense-pkg-squid
root    85417   0.0  0.8  254228  34852  -  I    22:02     0:00.24 /usr/local/bin/php -f /etc/rc.packages pfSense-pkg-squid DEINSTALL

Huh???