#5646 Webmin update problem

[M.T.R]

Hi,

webmin cannot be updated without problems:

apt-get install -y webmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libqrencode4 qrencode
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqrencode4 qrencode
The following packages will be upgraded:
  webmin
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 422 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://asi-fs-m.contabo.net/debian buster/main amd64 libqrencode4 amd64 4.0.2-1 [38.2 kB]
Get:2 http://asi-fs-m.contabo.net/debian buster/main amd64 qrencode amd64 4.0.2-1 [39.8 kB]
Get:3 https://download.webmin.com/download/newkey/repository stable/contrib amd64 webmin all 2.111 [33.7 MB]
Fetched 33.8 MB in 4s (8,232 kB/s) 
apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...
(Reading database ... 81578 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/webmin_2.111_all.deb ...
Unpacking webmin (2.111) over (2.105) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libqrencode4:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libqrencode4_4.0.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libqrencode4:amd64 (4.0.2-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package qrencode.
Preparing to unpack .../qrencode_4.0.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking qrencode (4.0.2-1) ...
Setting up webmin (2.111) ...
W: Webmin server cannot be restarted. It is advised to restart it manually by
   running "/etc/webmin/restart-by-force-kill" command when upgrade process is finished
Setting up libqrencode4:amd64 (4.0.2-1) ...
Setting up qrencode (4.0.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10+deb10u1) ...

cheers mike

[Ilia Ross]

Hello,

What exactly is the problem? If you mean a warning about a restart, simply try to restart it manually from the terminal. If a normal restart doesn't help, use the suggested force restart.

[M.T.R]

Hi Ilia,
this is exact the problem:
' Webmin server cannot be restarted. It is advised to restart it manually'
Cheers mike

[Ilia Ross]

If you are using Debian 12 with systemd, this issue should not happen. If it does, we don't know why it happens. The only reason for this issue to occur as we know it, is if Webmin was started outside of systemd, though again, it isn't something we control.

[M.T.R]

I'm on debian 10 and the update was always working completely, say without this error message.

cheers mike

[M.T.R]

Can you please advice, where the problem comes from and how to solve?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers mike

[M.T.R]

Do you have an update script, that could be modified perhaps?
I'd like to have a look on this.
Cheers mike

[Ilia Ross]

Was Webmin even running before you performed the package upgrade?

[M.T.R]

No, we always stop Webmin before.
I think it has something to do with the errors during apt-get update.
As you can see at the start of my post there are problems with repositories.
I will check this out.

Thanks mike

[Ilia Ross]

This issue was fixed in the latest nightly build version of Webmin.

Thanks for the heads up.

[M.T.R]

thank you.

Cheers mike