Failed to lock file

CentOS Linux 6.3, Webmin VErsion 1.610, Virtualmin VErsion 3.98 Pro, Kernel Linux 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64

During generate a new virtual server i get the following error:

Erzeugen der Unix-Benutzergruppe mawi .. ... Fertig! Einrichten des Unix-Benutzers mawi .. ... Fertig!

Creating aliases for administration user .. ... Fertig!

Adding administration user to groups .. ... Fertig!

Erstelle Heimat-Verzeichnis .. ... Fertig!

Creating mailbox for administration user .. ... Fertig!

Richte DNS-Zone ein .. ... Fertig!

E-Mail wird eingerichtet .. ... Fertig!

Füge Standard-E-Mail-Aliase hinzu .. ... Fertig!

Webseite wird eingerichtet .. .. Apache-Webseite gescheitert! : Failed to lock file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf after 5 minutes. Last error was : at /usr/libexec/webmin/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1361.

Periodische Webstatistiken werden eingerichtet .. .. Webalizer-Statistik gescheitert! : Failed to lock file /var/spool/cron/root after 5 minutes. Last error was : at /usr/libexec/webmin/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1361.

Setze Logdatei-Rotation auf .. ... Es wurde keine Logfile-Direktive in der Apache-Konfiguration gefunden!

Erzeuge MySQL-Login .. ... Fertig!

Erzeuge MySQL-Datenbank mawi .. ... Fertig!

Setting up spam filtering .. .. Spamfilterung gescheitert! : Failed to lock file /var/spool/cron/root after 5 minutes. Last error was : at /usr/libexec/webmin/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1361.

Setting up virus filtering .. ... Fertig!

Adding DAV directives to website configuration .. .. DAV Login gescheitert! : virtualmin-dav::feature_setup failed : Failed to lock file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf after 5 minutes. Last error was : at /usr/libexec/webmin/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1361.

Setting up AWstats reporting .. .. AWstats reporting gescheitert! : virtualmin-awstats::feature_setup failed : Failed to lock file /var/spool/cron/root after 5 minutes. Last error was : at /usr/libexec/webmin/web-lib-funcs.pl line 1361.

Richte Webmin-Benutzer ein .. ... Fertig!

DNS-Server wird neu gestartet .. ... Fertig!

Re-loading Webmin .. ... Fertig!

Speichere Daten des Virtuellen Servers .. ... Fertig!

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Comments

It looks like Virtualmin is having trouble locking a number of files.

What output do you receive if you run these commands:

df -h
mount
uptime