#5463 Text Login (Ajaxterm) not working on Ubuntu 18.04.5 or 20.04.2

[Artur Meinild]

When trying to use "Text Login" on Ubuntu 18.04.5 or 20.04.2, the following error is returned:

Ajaxterm did not start accepting connections on port 10001 after 30 seconds.

This is confirmed on more than one installation. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1321006/how-do-i-fix-ajaxterm-connection-error-for-text-login-after-updating-webmin

[Jamie Cameron]

Do you have python installed on this system, and if so which version?

[Artur Meinild]

On my system (Ubuntu 20.04.2) it's default Python (3.8.2). I assume the user with Ubuntu 18.04.5 is default Python as well (3.6.5).

[Artur Meinild]

I'm pretty sure this was working for me on earlier versions of webmin.

[Ilia]

Unfortunately Ajaxterm doesn't support Python 3.

Here is the simple fix.

[Paul D]

I haven't tested this but;
https://github.com/samuelcaldas/ajaxterm/commit/0a55fa639676d1ad71c876bd116b2dc0fcfc4db6

This Github user says he's updated Ajaxterm to work with Python 3 (samuelcaldas committed on 12 Jun 2020)

1 changed file with 5 additions and 5 deletions.

UPDATE: just seems to have changed File to Open in a few places

Cheers, Paul

[Jamie Cameron]

Is that patch compatible with both Python 2 and 3 ?

[Paul D]

Hi Jamie,

I changed the file ajaxterm.py in your webmin module, restarted Webmin, on my server with Python 3, but no change to the error ;
Ajaxterm did not start accepting connections on port 10001 after 30 seconds.
I have opened TCP 10001 port.

HOWEVER; changed that file ajaxterm.py on my other server running Python 2.3, restarted Webmin, and text login continues to work!

Could there be some cache issue I am not aware of? Should I have rebooted?

Sorry :-(