Re: Failed to save message

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Carey Hackett wrote:
> I am on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and I have upgraded to the
> "testing" version of webmin, which is the most current
> release (1.050).
> 
> I have had the same thing happen to me a few times today:
> The message "Failed to save <fill in name of thing being
> saved here>: failed to restart webmin!" comes up, and,
> because I don't have shell access where I am, I have no
> other way to restart webmin than to reboot my server using
> my server-provider's website.
> 
> Fortunately I am not yet hosting much on the server, but
> you can appreciate that I don't relish this option. :-)
> 
> When I get back in, it turns out that the change I was making
> has actually taken place. This has happened creating a new
> webmin user group, creating a new unix user and when changing
> the webmin access control list. Same situation: when I go
> back into webmin after rebooting, the change I was saving has
> taken place, contrary to the message.
> 
> I see that there may be a couple of bugs related to this in
> the bug-tracking system, so I didn't want to add another bug
> for no reason.
> 
> Hope this helps. Any advice, other than "don't do that right
> now" would be appreciated :-)

Try downloading and installing the 1.056 development release from
http://www.webmin.com/devel.html . It changes the way that webmin 
re-starts itself, and so should solve this problem.

  - Jamie