#4780 Webmin will not start on Ubuntu 16.04
This is the output from 'service webmin status'
● webmin.service - LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/webmin; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2016-06-26 16:33:28 CDT; 34s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
CGroup: /system.slice/webmin.service
├─13399 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.c
├─13400 fingerprint-helper 4 5 webmin -d -user root dUmMy4 dUmMy5
├─18509 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.c
└─18512 fingerprint-helper 4 5 webmin -d -user root dUmMy4 dUmMy5
Jun 26 16:28:28 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[18512]: Arg6: -user.
Jun 26 16:28:28 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[18512]: Arg7: root.
Jun 26 16:28:28 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[18512]: Arg8: dUmMy4.
Jun 26 16:28:28 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[18512]: Arg9: dUmMy5.
Jun 26 16:28:28 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[18512]: Have pipe_r 4 and pipe_w 5.
Jun 26 16:28:28 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[18512]: Have display=(null), XAUTHORITY=(
Jun 26 16:33:28 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: webmin.service: Start operation timed out. Termi
Jun 26 16:33:28 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start or stop the Webmin se
Jun 26 16:33:28 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: webmin.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 26 16:33:28 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: webmin.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Does anything get logged to
/var/webmin/miniserv.error?No, in fact, there is no /var/webmin/miniserv.error file just a module.infos.cache file and a modules directory.
What if you try starting webmin with the command
/etc/webmin/start?This is after /etc/webmin/start :
also we did not get a /var/webmin/miniserv.error file
service webmin status
● webmin.service - LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/webmin; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2016-06-27 10:41:12 CDT; 20min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 1799 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/webmin start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
CGroup: /system.slice/webmin.service
├─1809 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.co
└─2012 fingerprint-helper 4 5 webmin -d -user root dUmMy4 dUmMy5
Jun 27 10:36:12 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[2012]: Arg6: -user.
Jun 27 10:36:12 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[2012]: Arg7: root.
Jun 27 10:36:12 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[2012]: Arg8: dUmMy4.
Jun 27 10:36:12 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[2012]: Arg9: dUmMy5.
Jun 27 10:36:12 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[2012]: Have pipe_r 4 and pipe_w 5.
Jun 27 10:36:12 kibmu2cw fingerprint-helper[2012]: Have display=(null), XAUTHORITY=(n
Jun 27 10:41:12 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: webmin.service: Start operation timed out. Termi
Jun 27 10:41:12 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start or stop the Webmin se
Jun 27 10:41:12 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: webmin.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 27 10:41:12 kibmu2cw systemd[1]: webmin.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Does
/etc/webmin/startoutput any error messages though?No none at all it just hangs the prompt like below:
~#/etc/webmin/start
Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin
Is any other process using port 10000 on your system? If you can check with the command
lsof -i tcp:10000lsof -i tcp:10000 returns nothing. Port 10000 is open even in my firewall.
I'm out of ideas here, sorry ... nobody else has reported a problem like this before.
I might add that I have 2 machines. Both Lenovo W530's with the identical problem.
Any chance that I could login to one of these machines to see what's going wrong?
Jamie, I need to clear up a few things here before I can let that happen. I'll get back to you.
So you say nobody else has ran into this issue but I just installed webmin and I am having the same issue. Failed to start LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server. I checked nothing else is using port 10000 and it isn't blocked on firewall.
when I tried to start it got the same issue when checking status. When I tried using the restart command this is what happens.
sudo /etc/init.d/webmin restart
Stopping Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin
cat: /var/webmin/miniserv.pid: No such file or directory
/etc/webmin/stop: 4: kill: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
kill -l [exitstatus]
Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin
Pre-loaded WebminCore
Failed to open socket family 10 : Bad file descriptor at /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl line 542.
Do you have the full version of Perl installed there, or perhaps just some limited package?
I have the same issue too. Are there any solution to solve that problem ?
Try editing /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf and removing the line ipv6=1
Jamie, I've had the same issue, and this - ie. removing the ipv6=1 line - has fixed it.
The issue came up right after installing webmin from the repository, it didn't even start the service (of course) just put the error messages into syslog.
I was testing it on a Amazon Web Services EC2 micro instance with Ubuntu 16.04 where ipv6 was disabled.
All is good with this fix now.
Ok, I found the cause of this now - Webmin doesn't deal gracefully with the case where the system doesn't support IPv6. I will fix this in the next release.