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#5376 Installation Issue - Failed to bind to port 10000 : Address already in use

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nobody
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2020-06-03
2020-06-02
tharri
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After installing Webmin on a fresh install of CentOS 8 via both the repository (and later a manual download), I receive the following error:

[root@server]# /etc/webmin/start
Failed to bind to port 10000 : Address already in use
Could not listen on any ports

Likewise, I received the same error when doing this:

[root@server]# /etc/webmin/restart
Stopping Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin
Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin
Failed to bind to port 10000 : Address already in use
Could not listen on any ports

So, I proceeded to do the following:

/etc/webmin/stop

I then loaded the SERVER:10000 url and Webmin was still running! The command "ss -tulpn" revealed that, sure enough, the miniserv.pl process was still running on port 10000, despite stopping it.

And so I entered:

killall -9 miniserv.pl

The process stopped running as expected; I could no longer view the Webmin control panel. In addition, the following commands:

/etc/webmin/stop
/etc/webmin/start
/etc/webmin/restart

... all began to work as expected.

TL:DR The stop, start, and restart scripts do not work as expected after a fresh install of Webmin on CentOS 8. I'm not sure if the problem applies to other operating systems or not.

Discussion

  • Ilia

    Ilia - 2020-06-02

    What Webmin version have you installed? 1.942 should be working just fine.

     

  • Ilia

    Ilia - 2020-06-02

    I'm very sorry, it seems we forgot to update the links.

    It should be safe to install this 1.943 for CentOS 8.

     

  • tharri

    tharri - 2020-06-02

    I typically update through the Webmin control panel itself when the notification shows up.

    Will that be possible soon?

     

  • Ilia

    Ilia - 2020-06-03

    Yes, it should be possible again with upcoming Webmin 1.950.

     

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