It's been sometime that I've noticed on one of my virtualmin boxes that some virtual servers are “appearing”. The names are only numbers, and they don't have any content. I didn’t care about it at first, but after the last virtualmin update I´m getting emails for failed backpus on these virtualservers. I tried to delete them, but I get a message “Domain is not valid!”.
Please check the attached image, and the messages I get on the failed backup bellow:
Creating backup for virtual server 136961293324209 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 13735154602702 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 134847041514914 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 137099528112947 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 13472608025564 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 136663589613699 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 13562496499094 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 136016647214941 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 134484127230579 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
Creating backup for virtual server 136777686128984 .. .. some domain details missing!
.. completed in 0 seconds
How can I delete those virtual servers, and what may be the cause for they to be created? Thanks . Rogerio
Comments
Submitted by Locutus on Sun, 08/25/2013 - 15:43 Comment #1
This has been a Virtualmin Heisenbug for a long time. ;) Apparently it's caused e.g. when a Virtualmin backup job is executed that backs up only Virtualmin configuration and no domains.
To delete these invalid servers, go to directory
/etc/webmin/virtual-server/domainsand delete the files there whose names correspond to the invalid server numbers. To check you got the right files: they should be considerably smaller than real domain files.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
Submitted by rogeriobrito on Sun, 08/25/2013 - 16:20 Comment #2
Hi Locutus,
I was able to delete the domains.
Thanks a lot,
Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 08/25/2013 - 19:14 Comment #3
This bug should be fixed in Virtualmin 4.02. Are these kinds of domains still appearing even after upgrading to the latest release of Virtualmin?
Submitted by rogeriobrito on Mon, 08/26/2013 - 09:26 Comment #4
Hi Jamie,
I deleted the invalid domains yesterday, and so far I don't have any new invalid domain.
If it happens again I'll let you know.
Thanks