Can not install Virtualmin

It's possible that's a bug in the package or install script that needs reviewed -- there's two things to try first though.

First, if you run a "yum clean all" on your server as root, and then re-attempt the installation, does that by chance resolve the issue?

If the above doesn't help -- what is the output of this command:

rpm -qa | grep http

Thanks!

Hmm -- could I by chance log into your system and take a look?

If it's okay with you, what I'd like to do is work out whatever bugs are there and get Virtualmin installed on your server.

If that's okay -- what I'd need are root login details for your system. You can email those to eric@virtualmin.com.

Thanks!

Howdy -- when running "rpm -qa | grep http", a number of existing httpd packages show up, including an i386 based package.

That package appeared to be causing the trouble -- the installer was indeed trying to bring in the correct 64bit packages, but the existence of that 32bit package was preventing it from working properly.

What I did is remove the errant package that was installed. After removing it, the install script ran cleanly, and Virtualmin is setup on your server now.

If you have any questions, feel free to let us know!

Yes, you can use the "-f" option to force install without confirmation.

Note that you cannot bypass the hostname check, and installation will wait for a hostname, even in no-confirm mode...without a fully qualified domain name, the resulting install will be broken in many ways, so it won't even try to install without one. You can include a hostname on the command line, though, with the --hostname option.

root@Kangarooo16:~# wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh -O /root/virtualmin-install.sh --2016-11-04 05:42:50-- http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh Resolving software.virtualmin.com (software.virtualmin.com)... 108.60.199.117 Connecting to software.virtualmin.com (software.virtualmin.com)|108.60.199.117|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 48932 (48K) [application/x-sh] Saving to: ‘/root/virtualmin-install.sh’

/root/virtualmin-in 100%[===================>] 47.79K 190KB/s in 0.3s

2016-11-04 05:42:50 (190 KB/s) - ‘/root/virtualmin-install.sh’ saved [48932/48932]

root@Kangarooo16:~# sh /root/virtualmin-install.sh Checking for Perl found Perl at /usr/bin/perl

Welcome to the Virtualmin GPL installer, version 1.1.4

WARNING:

The installation is quite stable and functional when run on a freshly installed supported Operating System.

If you have existing websites, email users, or if you manually installed Virtualmin via a Webmin 'wbm' module, you are likely to run into problems. Please read the Virtualmin Administrators Guide before proceeding if your system is not a freshly installed and supported OS.

This script is not intended to update your system! It should only be used to perform your initial Virtualmin installation. If you have previously run the Virtualmin installer, you can perform upgrades and updates from within Virtualmin itself, or using your system's package manager. Once Virtualmin is installed, you never need to run this script again.

The systems currently supported by install.sh are: CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7 on x86_64 CentOS and RHEL 5-6 on i386 and x86_64 Scientific Linux 6 on i386 and x86_64 Debian 6, 7, and 8 on i386 and amd64 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04, and 16.04 LTS on i386 and amd64 FreeBSD 7.0 and 8 on i386 and amd64

If your OS is not listed above, this script will fail. More details about the systems supported by the script can be found here:

http://www.virtualmin.com/os-support.html

Continue? (y/n) y Checking for HTTP client...found /usr/bin/curl -s -O Checking for perl...found /usr/bin/perl Loading log4sh logging library... INFO - Started installation log in /root/virtualmin-install.log INFO - Checking for fully qualified hostname... INFO - Hostname Kangarooo16 is not fully qualified. Please enter a fully qualified hostname (for example, host.example.com): latvijai.lv INFO - Hostname OK: fully qualified as latvijai.lv INFO - Primary address detected as 46.101.98.203 INFO - Adding new entry for hostname latvijai.lv on 46.101.98.203 to /etc/hosts. INFO - Installing serial number and license key into /etc/virtualmin-license INFO - Loading OS selection library... INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl Succeeded. INFO - Loading OS list... INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt Succeeded. INFO - Operating system name: Ubuntu Linux INFO - Operating system version: 16.04.1 INFO - Configuring package manager for Ubuntu Linux 16.04.1... INFO - Enabling universe repositories, if not already available... INFO - Disabling cdrom repositories... Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Hit:2 http://ams2.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:3 http://ams2.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Get:4 http://ams2.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [92.2 kB] Fetched 92.2 kB in 0s (151 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done INFO - Cleaning up apt headers and packages, so we can start fresh... INFO - INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/apt.conf.noninteractive Succeeded. INFO - Installing Webmin and Virtualmin package signing keys... INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin Succeeded. INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin Succeeded. INFO - OK INFO - OK INFO - Hit:1 INFO - Removing Debian standard Webmin package, if they exist... INFO - Removing Debian apache packages... INFO - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install bsdutils postfix postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl unzip zip libfcgi-dev bind9 spamassassin spamc procmail procmail-wrapper libnet-ssleay-perl libpg-perl libdbd-pg-perl libdbd-mysql-perl quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion ruby irb rdoc ri mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common postgresql postgresql-client awstats webalizer dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d proftpd libcrypt-ssleay-perl awstats clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-docs clamav-testfiles libapache2-mod-fcgid apache2-suexec-custom scponly apache2 apache2-doc libapache2-svn libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules sasl2-bin php-pear php php-cgi libapache2-mod-php php-mysql ntpdate ...in progress, please wait... Extracting templates from packages: 100%.. Extracting templates from packages: 100% ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................W: --force-yes is deprecated, use one of the options starting with --allow instead.

INFO - /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install bsdutils postfix postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl unzip zip libfcgi-dev bind9 spamassassin spamc procmail procmail-wrapper libnet-ssleay-perl libpg-perl libdbd-pg-perl libdbd-mysql-perl quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion ruby irb rdoc ri mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common postgresql postgresql-client awstats webalizer dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d proftpd libcrypt-ssleay-perl awstats clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-docs clamav-testfiles libapache2-mod-fcgid apache2-suexec-custom scponly apache2 apache2-doc libapache2-svn libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules sasl2-bin php-pear php php-cgi libapache2-mod-php php-mysql ntpdate: Succeeded. INFO - Succeeded. INFO - Installing Virtualmin and all related packages now using the command: INFO - /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install virtualmin-base ...in progress, please wait... ...................................................W: --force-yes is deprecated, use one of the options starting with --allow instead. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

/usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install virtualmin-base failed. Error (if any): 0

Displaying the last 15 lines of /root/virtualmin-install.log to help troubleshoot this problem: Allowing traffic on TCP port: ftp Allowing traffic on TCP port: ftp-data Allowing traffic on TCP port: pop3 Allowing traffic on TCP port: pop3s Allowing traffic on TCP port: imap Allowing traffic on TCP port: imaps Allowing traffic on TCP port: http Allowing traffic on TCP port: https Allowing traffic on TCP port: 10000 Allowing traffic on TCP port: 20000 Allowing traffic on UDP port: domain Removing default AWstats cron job Re-checking supported Webmin modules dpkg: error processing package virtualmin-base (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 WARN - apt-get seems to have failed. Are you sure your OS and version is supported? WARN - http://www.virtualmin.com/os-support

FATAL - Fatal Error Occurred: Installation failed: 0 FATAL - Cannot continue installation. FATAL - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be FATAL - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved. FATAL - Removing temporary directory and files. FATAL - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log FATAL - in /root/virtualmin-install.log

Howdy -- My suggestion would be to try the install again -- and if you have the same problem, ensure that /tmp is writable, and that you have plenty of space on all your partitions. Also make sure that you have plenty of RAM... I saw that your Forum post mentions that it's a 512MB VPS... you may want to ensure that you have swap space, as that's not a lot for a 64 bit distro.

One other thought would be to try manually downloading virtualmin-base, and trying to install that using dpkg on the command line to see what exact error is being generated.

It looks like you're using Virtualmin GPL there though... the area here is for folks using Virtualmin Pro. I see you posted your issue in the Forums -- your post here is the best place to receive support:

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/43365

If you have any followup questions or comments, post those in your Forum thread there. We monitor the Forums, along with lots of wonderful folks in the community. Thanks!

@andreychek we've tried the install no less than twenty times over the last year - EVERY TIME this miniserv.pl goes to 100% when webmin services are running

/tmp is writable during the install but not afterward

I believe we have enough space on all your partitions and plenty of RAM...

One thing I haven't tried is manually downloading virtualmin-base, and trying to install that using dpkg on the command line to see what exact error is being generated.

I purchase VirtualMin Pro - and have installed that three times so I think I'm in the right area.

If you have any followup questions or comments, post those in your Forum thread there. We monitor the Forums, along with lots of wonderful folks in the community. Thanks!

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CapstoneWorks, yup, the Virtualmin GPL comment there wasn't directed at you, and we're happy to help.

We'll respond to you in your request over here:

https://www.virtualmin.com/node/58120