#5658 webmin 2.600 software update on almalinux 9.6 fails

[Rich Painter]

System is almalinux 9.6 64 bit, webmin 2.600.
This failed the same on another almalinux 9.6 and webmin 2.600.

Procedure

selected update from webmin main page
indicated >500 updates
selected all

failed with this:

Last metadata expiration check: 3:57:21 ago on Thu Nov 27 17:12:15 2025.
Error:
Problem: package cockpit-system-344-1.el9.noarch from baseos requires cockpit-bridge >= 344-1.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install both cockpit-bridge-344-1.el9.noarch from baseos and cockpit-bridge-334.2-1.el9_6.x86_64 from @System
- cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-system-334.2-1.el9_6.noarch
- cannot install the best update candidate for package cockpit-bridge-334.2-1.el9_6.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

.. install failed!

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as root ran dnf update
selected all
all updates ran successfully
rebooted
ran webmin
showed updated to 2.610
YET still showed "554 package updates are available, of which 45 are security updates"
selected update all
packages were listed then reported:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:26:16 ago on Thu Nov 27 21:13:40 2025.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

.. install complete

refreshed webmin from main page
now shows no updates available which IS CORRECT!

[Jamie Cameron]

That error with the package cockpit-bridge seems unrelated to Webmin!

Can you install any other package successfully?

[Rich Painter]

Jamie,

I have not tried to install anything else.

My point of submitting this was that 1. the webmin processing failed; 2.
But using the almalinux command line shell and the usual update command
"dnf update" worked without any issues. This suggests that the "cockpit"
issue reported by webmin's update process (which I have never dug into)
had a problem BUT dnf did not.

when using webmin's update on almalinux 9.6 what is the actual command?

thanks for considering this.

regards

rich

[Jamie Cameron]

If the dnf command is installed, Webmin should just be using a command like dnf install package1 package2 etc..

I wonder if maybe a specific package cannot be upgraded? Perhaps instead of upgrading them all at once, try a few at a time?