ok i messed up: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)

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#1 Fri, 06/17/2016 - 18:06
nylle

ok i messed up: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)

Hello guys,

im kind of new to virtualmin and everything and to this date i could solve everything by just using google or looking at this forum and some very helpful posts some of you made.

but i couldnt find anything that could possibly help my stupidity in this situation.

so here is the problem/story:

i'm usind pro and hosting some domains / subdomains on my vps and just the letsencrypt ssl cert for my own domain. then i noticed i cant use ftp anymore, i thought it might be cause i added the certificate to proftpd aswell. well, projects hosted on subdomains couldnt connect via ftp either. since theyre gonna get either outsourced or hosted on their respective buyers servers i didnt think this is a big problem, well its still a problem and i didnt want it to become any bigger than it already is.
so i disabled SSL for my virtual server because i didnt see any other option of removing the ssl cert from proftpd and reennabled it - genius, ikr :/.

so i tried to connect over and over again with different logins, tried to add new ftp users and so on. turned out proftpd wasnt running. i thought i could just reinstall it and recreate users. but first: i really dont know how - and second: i dont wanna mess up more than i already did.

so this is the error message i get when i try to launch proftp from webmin panel under "servers":

Starting proftpd (via systemctl): proftpd.serviceJob for proftpd.service failed. See 'systemctl status proftpd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
failed!

this is what i get once i type proftpd --configtest in putty

root@kebabmeal:~# proftpd --configtest
Checking syntax of configuration file
2016-06-18 00:29:50,851 kebabmeal proftpd[2033]: mod_dso/0.5: module 'mod_sftp.c' already loaded
2016-06-18 00:29:50,856 kebabmeal proftpd[2033]: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
2016-06-18 00:29:50,856 kebabmeal proftpd[2033]: FTP session closed.
Segmentation fault

systemctl status proftpd.service gives me this:

Jun 18 00:50:36 kebabmeal proftpd[4615]: Starting ftp server: proftpd2016-06-18 00:50:36,780 kebabmeal proftpd[4621]: mod_dso/0.5: module 'mod_sftp.c' already loaded
Jun 18 00:50:36 kebabmeal proftpd[4615]: 2016-06-18 00:50:36,782 kebabmeal proftpd[4621]: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
Jun 18 00:50:36 kebabmeal proftpd[4615]: 2016-06-18 00:50:36,782 kebabmeal proftpd[4621]: FTP session closed.
Jun 18 00:50:36 kebabmeal proftpd[4615]: Segmentation fault
Jun 18 00:50:36 kebabmeal proftpd[4615]: failed!

journalctl -xn gives me this:

Jun 18 04:33:13 kebabmeal proftpd[18255]: Starting ftp server: proftpd2016-06-18 04:33:13,522 kebabmeal proftpd[18261]: mod_dso/0.5: module 'mod_sftp.c' already loaded
Jun 18 04:33:13 kebabmeal proftpd[18255]: 2016-06-18 04:33:13,539 kebabmeal proftpd[18261]: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
Jun 18 04:33:13 kebabmeal proftpd[18255]: 2016-06-18 04:33:13,539 kebabmeal proftpd[18261]: FTP session closed.
Jun 18 04:33:13 kebabmeal proftpd[18255]: Segmentation fault
Jun 18 04:33:13 kebabmeal proftpd[18255]: failed!

also there is something with wrong with smtp i guess now that i'm looking at it -_-

this is all the information i could think of, if any of you need any more stuff i'd be more than happy to provide the missing info.
i hope this is fixable in some way.

edit: kebabmeal is just the placeholder for hostename /username

greetings

nylle

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 03:04
nylle

anyone? :(

i'm just getting started :|

Wed, 06/29/2016 - 06:23
unborn
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just use sftp - ssh is much more secure and it just work without proftpd..

Configuring/troubleshooting Debian servers is always great fun

Wed, 06/29/2016 - 09:50
andreychek

Howdy,

First off, if you're using Virtualmin Pro, you are welcome to post either in the Forums, or in the support tracker. So if you don't receive a response here, please feel free to post in the support tracker to get an answer.

As far as the error you're receiving goes though -- what distro/version is it that you're using?

And did ProFTPd ever work? Or was this always a problem?

Lastly, what is the output of the command "free -m"?

-Eric

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