Failed to start LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server.

Submitted by yngens on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 23:14

If you try the old-type Fedora command service webmin restart then it works fine:

service webmin restart
Stopping Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin
Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin

however, if you use new systemctl way then the systemctl restart webmin command gives:

Job for webmin.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status webmin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

And despite Webmin is running ok, the systemctl status webmin.service gives:

systemctl status webmin.service
● webmin.service - LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2017-08-20 04:10:17 UTC; 31s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 22671 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 20 04:10:05 ns1.domain.tld systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server...
Aug 20 04:10:05 ns1.domain.tld perl[22674]: pam_unix(webmin:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=root
Aug 20 04:10:07 ns1.domain.tld webmin[22674]: Webmin starting
Aug 20 04:10:17 ns1.domain.tld systemd[1]: webmin.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 20 04:10:17 ns1.domain.tld systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start or stop the Webmin server.
Aug 20 04:10:17 ns1.domain.tld systemd[1]: Unit webmin.service entered failed state.
Aug 20 04:10:17 ns1.domain.tld systemd[1]: webmin.service failed.

Please make start/stop/restart Webmin commands consistent with the new standards for Fedora-based systems.

Status: 
Closed (works as designed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 11:55

Which exact Fedora version are you running there?

Submitted by yngens on Sun, 08/20/2017 - 19:39

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It's CentOS 7.x. By the "old-type Fedora command" I meant the "service name command" format. This is happening on any CentOS 7.x systems: you can't use the new "systemctl comand name" format for "webmin"

Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 01:16

I just tested this on a CentOS 7 system with Webmin, and the systemctl command worked fine.

How was Webmin installed on your machine?

Submitted by yngens on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 21:20

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Turns out Webmin on that particular machine was installed from a repository of another software and was pretty old.