Re-Check Config fails on pbzip2

Submitted by Hal9000 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 08:41

I installed the pbzip2 debian package and configured Virtualmin 3.81 GPL to use parallel bzip2. However, doing a Re-Check Config, it now fails with this message: The command pbunzip2 needed to create or restore backups is not installed. The command however appears to be pbzip2 -d, there is no pbunzip2 on my system.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 11:36

Which package did you install that from?

On Fedora at least the pbzip2 package contains the pbunzip2 command as well.

Submitted by Hal9000 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 12:21

The package is called "pbzip2". I checked, there is no package in debian containing the pbunzip2 command. Apparently, pbzip2 -d must be used instead.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 13:47

That's surprising .. normally /usr/bin/pbunzip2 exists, but as a link to pbzip2 .

One work-around may be for you to run :

ln -s /usr/bin/pbzip2 /usr/bin/pbunzip2

Submitted by Hal9000 on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 15:41

yeah, that solves the problem and makes virtualmin validate fine on my system

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 17:58

Cool - I will fix Virtualmin in the next release to use pbzip2 -d if pbunzip2 is missing.

Submitted by Issues on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 20:19

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Submitted by Hal9000 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 05:39

btw, the pbzip2 thing does not work, at least not on debian. it just creats empty (0 bytes) .bz2 archives. had to switch to normal bzip2 to get it going.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:01

What does pbzip2 -v output on your system? I recently discovered that some old versions like 1.0.2 cannot write compressed output to stdout , which makes them useless for Virtualmin :-(

Submitted by Hal9000 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:06

oh well, i got 1.0.2... will have to wait for debian 6.0 then :)

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:45

Yeah ... the next virtualmin release will display a warning if you try to use a version of pbzip2 that is too old.

Submitted by Issues on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 12:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.