when we (from "Select a new Perl module to compile and install on your system.") select any module from the cpan list, the popup window just refreshes(firefox) or gives us a view of the main window (msie). Operating system Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Webmin version 1.350.
In our case (Operating system = Mac OS X 10.5, Kernel and CPU = Darwin 9.6.0 on i386) and Webmin 1.450,
the perl (Perl version 5.8.8) DBD::PG (postgreSQL) module does start to install:
Downloading http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TU/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.11.8.tar.gz (218125 bytes) ..
Received 1024 bytes (0 %)
Received 22528 bytes (10 %)
Received 44032 bytes (20 %)
Received 65536 bytes (30 %)
Received 88064 bytes (40 %)
Received 109568 bytes (50 %)
Received 131072 bytes (60 %)
Received 153600 bytes (70 %)
Received 175104 bytes (80 %)
Received 196608 bytes (90 %)
Received 218125 bytes (100 %)
.. download complete.
But even when waiting for half an our the page loading progress indicator is still not finished, but nothing seems to happen any longer.
There seem to be related processes running:
73393 root /usr/bin/perl /Users/Shared/src/webmin-1.450/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.co ...
73702 root /Users/Shared/src/webmin-1.450/cpan/download.cgi ...
73740 root sh -c cd /tmp/.webmin/621416_2_download.cgi/DBD-Pg-2.11.8 ; /usr/bin/perl Makefi ...
73741 root /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL --skip
73921 root /Users/Shared/src/webmin-1.450/proc/index_tree.cgi ...
73927 root /usr/bin/perl /Users/Shared/src/webmin-1.450/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.co ...
73928 root /usr/bin/perl /Users/Shared/src/webmin-1.450/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.co ...