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webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) Upgrade Never Completes on Ubuntu 10.04

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#1 Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:21

premierhw

webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) Upgrade Never Completes on Ubuntu 10.04

Hi all. Virtualmin has been running great for me until I tried to upgrade it yesterday from 3.87 using apt. Its still running ok as far as I can tell but the upgrade will not complete.

I have cancelled a few times and after running 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' then cancelling again (as it just hung again) I can run apt a get as far as below then it doesnt do anything else.

root@server:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) ...

I can see in the system information that it seems to have been at least partially upgraded as I see 'Virtualmin version 3.88.gpl GPL'.

When I look in the running processes I see:

            12386    root    17:11   apt-get upgrade
               12392    root    17:11   /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 26 --configure webmin-virtual-server webmin-virtualmin ...
                  12393 root    17:11   /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin-virtual-server.postinst configure 3.87.gpl
                     12408  root    17:11   /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/run-postinstalls.pl virtual-server
                        12568   root    17:12   sh -c service lookup\-domain stop 2>&1 </dev/null
                           12569    root    17:12   stop lookup-domain

It always seems to have hung at stop or start lookup-domain whatever that is doing.

All seems to still be working which is good, but this will stop any further updates working with apt so I am keen to get it resolved. Can anybody help?

Thanks.

#2 Wed, 09/28/2011 - 08:46

premierhw

Ok so I spent half a day Googling and didnt come up with much. Best I could try was to remove the webmin-virtual-server section from /var/lib/dpkg/status file so it would reinstall it again using apt-get -f install.

Did this but again its hanging on 'Setting up webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) ...' and the last process seems to be 'stop lookup-domain'.

Should I file this as a bug?

#3 Fri, 09/30/2011 - 01:32 (Reply to #2)

cedosh

Hi, I got the same problem, i search to solve it, but in vain. Hope someone could help us as soon as possible.

#4 Fri, 09/30/2011 - 05:07 (Reply to #3)

premierhw

Is your install totally standard? Mines was base Ubuntu with SSH then just ran the setup script, although I disabled the following services after installation using the commands below as I wasnt using them:

rm /etc/rc*/*clam*
rm /etc/rc*/*spam*
rm /etc/rc*/*proftpd*
rm /etc/rc*/*postgres*
rm /etc/rc*/*dovecot*

Maybe this has caused the issue...? *edit - Replace em> with asterix

Also, added the following extra packages apt-get install php5-curl php5-gd php5-imagick php-apc imagemagick unattended-upgrades apticron libapache-mod-security

#5 Tue, 10/04/2011 - 02:44

premierhw

Thanks to andreychek and Jamie this issue is now solved.

The fix is to kill the 'stop lookup-domain' process and in my case I also had to kill a 'start lookup-domain' process after that as it was still hanging.

Seemingly this is caused by a problem with the Ubuntu upstart system.

#6 Sat, 10/29/2011 - 10:54 (Reply to #5)

mogmismo

Thanks +premierhw, that did it for me.

Find the pid:
root: /var/log# ps -ef | grep lookup-domain
.....
root 12947 12946 0 15:31 ? 00:00:00 stop lookup-domain
....

find the pid (in this example, 12947), and

kill -9 12947

then do the same but look for the pid of "start lookup-domain"

solved it for me, too

#7 Mon, 10/31/2011 - 03:11 (Reply to #6)

premierhw

Glad it solved it for you as well. I had the same issue again with the latest Webmin update but the above fix again worked.

#8 Mon, 10/31/2011 - 15:46

cfmmroolet

Registered just to say thanks so much for getting me out of neverending dpkg hell. Deleting the lookup-domain processes worked for me.

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