#4758 After 'apt-get update' to 1.800 error on starting webmin

[Wouter Dijk]

I updated Webmin to 1.800 throught 'apt-get update/upgrade' and Webmin doesn't start anymore.

 sudo service webmin status
● webmin.service - LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/webmin; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2016-05-26 10:11:09 CEST; 47min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

May 26 10:11:07 domain.nl systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server...
May 26 10:11:07 domain.nl perl[7165]: pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=root
May 26 10:11:07 domain.nl perl[7165]: pam_winbind(webmin:auth): getting password (0x00000388)
May 26 10:11:07 domain.nl perl[7165]: pam_winbind(webmin:auth): pam_get_item returned a password
May 26 10:11:07 domain.nl perl[7165]: pam_winbind(webmin:auth): request wbcLogonUser failed: WBC_ERR_AUTH_ERROR, PAM error: PAM_USER_UNKNOWN (10), NTSTATUS: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER, Erro
May 26 10:11:09 domain.nl webmin[7165]: Webmin starting
May 26 10:11:09 domain.nl systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server.
May 26 10:57:29 domain.nl systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server.
May 26 10:58:18 domain.nl systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server.

I experience the same problem on three Ubuntu 16.04LTS servers.
Can you help me?

Thanks!

[Rip1980]

On Centos7 and Ubuntu 16.04 both, I needed to do a "service webmin restart" even thought the upgrade seemed to work fine and it claimed it was running. Maybe the same for you as well.

[Wouter Dijk]

I just update to 1.801, but the problem remains. I tried 'service webmin stop/start' and 'service webmin restart', but I keep getting the follwing output from 'service webmin status':

sudo service webmin status
● webmin.service - LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/webmin; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-05-27 10:05:01 CEST; 47s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 25473 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/webmin stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 25486 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/webmin start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/webmin.service
           └─25492 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

May 27 10:04:59 domain.nl systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server...
May 27 10:04:59 domain.nl perl[25489]: pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=root
May 27 10:04:59 domain.nl perl[25489]: pam_winbind(webmin:auth): getting password (0x00000388)
May 27 10:04:59 domain.nl perl[25489]: pam_winbind(webmin:auth): pam_get_item returned a password
May 27 10:04:59 domain.nl perl[25489]: pam_winbind(webmin:auth): request wbcLogonUser failed: WBC_ERR_AUTH_ERROR, PAM error: PAM_USER_UNKNOWN (10), NTSTATUS: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER, Err
May 27 10:05:01 domain.nl webmin[25489]: Webmin starting
May 27 10:05:01 domain.nl systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server.

[Jamie Cameron]

What if you try running : /etc/webmin/stop ; /etc/webmin/start

[Wouter Dijk]

Your suggestion worked. Don't know why, but my webmin-instances are back up & running! Thanks!