RESOLVED - webmin upgrade - gone bad & a question

Hi -

Last night I tried to upgrade webmin on my debian/dockstar via a link on the web interface... it rendered my usb-stick unbootable...

I checked both the debian forum and webmin forums and couldn't find any other folks reporting problems.

I suspect it's somehow due to my flawed installation of webmin - it never 'automatically' started after aboot although it looks to me like all the required pieces are in place.

So, fair warning - if you use webmin and try to upgrade it, keep your fingers crossed. At least.

(I haven't investigated any further yet...but, I'll have a look via serial port later today or tonight and post the details if I see anything interesting.)

- Ray



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2010 02:00PM by sandbasser.

No problems here upgrading webmin to 1.530.

Heinz

Heinz -

A question for you...does your webmin start automatically after reboot or do you have to manually start it???

Mine (obviously, on a separate stick) doesn't start after reboot - I have to manually start it. It's pretty annoying.

Thanks,

- Ray

I initially downloaded webmin_1.520_all.deb from the webmin website; /etc/init.d/webmin was created and started automatically as part of the standard installation as far as I recall.

You could try

cd /etc/init.d
update-rc.d webmin defaults

(or "Webmin / System / Bootup and Shutdown" of course) to have it started on boot up.

If this does not work, your runlevel links may be trashed; try

cd /etc/init.d
rm ../rc?.d/???webmin
update-rc.d webmin defaults

to clean it up.

HTH
Heinz

Heinz -

I tried the 'update-rc.d webmin defaults' command that you recommended... I did get some warning messages; but it resolved the problem with webmin not starting after reboot.

Many thanks!!!

- Ray

I had similar problems:

boot@server:/tmp# update-rc.d webmin defaults
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
update-rc.d: warning: webmin start runlevel arguments
(2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default
-Start values (2 3 5)
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (empty) of
script `webmin' overwrites default
s (0 1 6).

This resulted after your suggestion to run this:

apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl
libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-
show-versions python

I'm trying this next, but.....

cd /etc/init.d
rm ../rc?.d/???webmin
update-rc.d webmin defaults

Squeeze uses a dependency based boot system. update-rc is sort of deprecated. inssrv is the new version. but the start up script in /etc/init.d needs to be formatted properly. just copy the starting bit from /etc/init.d/ssh into top of /etc/init.d/webmin.