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#359 miniserv.pl runbound if installing pkgs
Webmin 0.92 running on Solaris 8.
Usually when I attempt to install a software package
via webmin, miniserv.pl will continually consume 100%
of the cpu. Webmin has to be killed and restarted.
Maybe 10% of the time, package install will work. Race
condition?
Following is a snipet of the truss output of the
runaway miniserv.pl.
This repeats forever...
write(9, "\n", 1) Err#5
EIO
read(9, 0x004A00B4, 8192) Err#5
EIO
write(9, "\n", 1) Err#5
EIO
read(9, 0x004A00B4, 8192) Err#5
EIO
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Does this happen for any package, or just certain ones?
I have been able to install packages from
www.sunfreeware.com with no problems, so maybe you could
tell me which package you are having this problem with?
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The problem occurs for all of my packages and a few from
sunfreeware.com.
The common denominator may be "large" packages.
ntop-1.3.1-sol8-sparc-local.pkg from sunfreeware.com fails
for me
with the same symptoms almost all the time.
Thanks for your help.
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I forgot to mention that all the packages I have problems
installing
via webmin, install just fine manually via pkgadd.
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This problem is very easily reproduced using perl 5.005,
which is included in the Solaris 8 release. However, it cannot
be reprocuded using perl 5.6.1.
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Have you tried a more recent version of webmin, like
0.970 ? Also, does this happen for all packages that you
try to install, or just a specific one?
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The same problem occurs with webmin 0.95 as reported for
0.92.
With 0.970, I have a slightly different problem. Webmin
reports that the pkg install failed, although pkginfo reports
that the package is completely installed. On the webmin
page that states the install failed, all but the last dozen or so
files are listed on the page. The files that are not listed;
however, are in fact installed.
Most "large" packages have this problem, including my
packages and packages from sunfreeware.com. It is nearly
100% reproducible with the ntop-1.3.1-sol8-sparc-local.pkg
from sunfreeware.com.