#4877 Fails OS detection

[Tony Albers]

Downloading packages:
webmin-1.831-1.noarch.rpm | 27 MB 00:00:05
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Unable to identify operating system
error: %pre(webmin-1.831-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package webmin-1.831-1.noarch
Verifying : webmin-1.831-1.noarch 1/1

Failed:
webmin.noarch 0:1.831-1

Complete!
[root@crocodile ~]# uname -a
Linux crocodile.djursbackup.net 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 18 03:09:47 EST 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@crocodile ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Springdale Linux release 7.3 (Verona)
[root@crocodile ~]#

So, the script fails to detect Springdale as a RHEL-clone (like CentOS)

After changing /etc/redhat-release to reflect CentOS 7.3, webmin install as expected.

[Jamie Cameron]

Ok, we can add support for that. Is Springdale 7.3 exactly the same as CentOS 7.3 ?

[Tony Albers]

Yes it is, and it actually existed before CentOS.

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks - this will be supported in the next Webmin release.

[Eric Aguayo]

Getting this in Open VZ 7 as well

[root@eva02 ~]# uname -a
Linux eva02 3.10.0-327.36.1.vz7.20.18 #1 SMP Tue Dec 20 13:52:43 MSK 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@eva02 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Virtuozzo Linux release 7.3

[Jamie Cameron]

Is Virtuozzo Linux 7.3 the same same as CentOS 7.3 ?

[Eric Aguayo]

Yes, I'm pretty sure is based on CentOS 7

[Jamie Cameron]

Ok, I wlll support this in 1.840

[randome]

unfortunately this is still an issue with Virtuozzo Linux :-(

[root@bl13 dl]# cat /etc/redhat-release          
Virtuozzo Linux release 7.3
[root@bl13 dl]# rpm -i webmin-1.850-1.noarch.rpm 
warning: webmin-1.850-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 11f63c51: NOKEY
Unable to identify operating system
error: %pre(webmin-1.850-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
error: webmin-1.850-1.noarch: install failed

Andreas Schnederle-Wagner

[Jamie Cameron]

Please try the 1.853 development version from http://www.webmin.com/devel.html

[jack]

Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Unable to identify operating system
error: %pre(webmin-1.850-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package webmin-1.850-1.noarch
Verifying : webmin-1.850-1.noarch 1/1

Failed:
webmin.noarch 0:1.850-1

Complete!

cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"

---

cat system-release
Amazon Linux 2

[Peter VARGA]

The same here:

uname -a returns
Linux aaeb91 4.19.0+1 #1 SMP Wed Dec 4 13:59:08 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/os-release returns

NAME="Citrix Hypervisor"
VERSION="8.1.0"
ID="xenenterprise"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.1.0"
PRETTY_NAME="Citrix Hypervisor 8.1.0"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
HOME_URL="http://xenserver.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.xenserver.org/"

Trying to install webmin 1.941

As Citrix is CentOs it should be possible to install it. Any idea?

[Jamie Cameron]

We'll add support for Citrix in the next Webmin release.