Invalid Virtual servers showing up

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

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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/domains and 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

Hi Locutus,

I was able to delete the domains.

Thanks a lot,

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?

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