webmin won't install with newer kernel running

[djohnston]

webmin won't install if a 3.2.X kernel is running.

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[darrel@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.2.18-pclos2.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 24 04:44:50 CEST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[darrel@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.vim.org pclinuxos/2010 release [503B]
Get:2 http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010 release [3187B]
Fetched 3690B in 0s (11.8kB/s)
Hit http://ftp.vim.org pclinuxos/2010/megagames pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/main pkglist                 
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/main release                                   
Hit http://ftp.vim.org pclinuxos/2010/megagames release                               
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/updates pkglist               
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/updates release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/nonfree pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/nonfree release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/kde4 pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/kde4 release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/games pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/games release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/xfce4 pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/xfce4 release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[root@localhost ~]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
[root@localhost ~]# apt-get install webmin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   perl-Net-SSLeay (1.36-1pclos2010)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   perl-Net-SSLeay (1.36-1pclos2010)
   webmin (1.490-1pclos2009)
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.3MB of archives.
After unpacking 38.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/main perl-Net-SSLeay 1.36-1pclos2010 [211kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/main webmin 1.490-1pclos2009 [15.1MB]
Fetched 15.3MB in 13s (1092kB/s)
Committing changes...
Preparing                                ############################## [100%]
Updating / installing
  perl-Net-SSLeay-1.36-1pclos2010.i586   ############################## [100%]
Unable to identify operating system
error: %pre(webmin-1.490-1pclos2009.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping webmin-1.490-1pclos2009
Done.
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction
[root@localhost ~]#
Try again with 2.6.38.8 kernel running.

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[darrel@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 8 18:01:30 CDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[darrel@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.vim.org pclinuxos/2010 release [503B]
Get:2 http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010 release [3187B]
Fetched 3690B in 0s (10.8kB/s)
Hit http://ftp.vim.org pclinuxos/2010/megagames pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/main pkglist                 
Hit http://ftp.vim.org pclinuxos/2010/megagames release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/main release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/updates pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/updates release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/nonfree pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/nonfree release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/kde4 pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/kde4 release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/games pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/games release
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/xfce4 pkglist
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/2010/xfce4 release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[root@localhost ~]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
[root@localhost ~]# apt-get install webmin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   webmin (1.490-1pclos2009)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 38.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Committing changes...
Preparing                                ############################## [100%]
Operating system is Generic Linux
Updating / installing
  webmin-1.490-1pclos2009.noarch         ############################## [100%]
Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://localhost.localdomain:10000/
as root with your root password.
Done.
[root@localhost ~]#

[pclinmike]

Hi Darrel.
Is this the only way to get Webmin working as I have loaded Minime TR2012.06 for one of my test machines so I can test my backup server and I need webmin.

There seems to be some package miss-match.

uname -a


Linux localhost.localdomain 3.2.18-pclos2.bfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 24 04:44:50 CEST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]#

Output from Synaptic.


While preparing for installation:

Unable to identify operating system
error: %pre(webmin-1.490-1pclos2009.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping webmin-1.490-1pclos2009
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction

[JohnW_57]

Unable to identify operating system

Seems it' s running only on a 2.6 kernel indeed.
Maybe some other packages have that issue (kernel 3.x incompatibility)?

JohnW

[daniel]

need an update...

[pclinmike]

I can not find this 'dependency' in synaptic "libnsl.so.1"

[djohnston]

I can not find this 'dependency' in synaptic "libnsl.so.1"

What is calling for libnsl.so.1?

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apt-cache whatprovides libnsl
<libnsl>
  nothing provides <libnsl>

[pclinmike]

I can not find this 'dependency' in synaptic "libnsl.so.1"

What is calling for libnsl.so.1?

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apt-cache whatprovides libnsl
<libnsl>
  nothing provides <libnsl>

If you search for 'Webmin' in synaptic it says in the list of it's dependency's    libnsl.so.1

[djohnston]

If you search for 'Webmin' in synaptic it says in the list of it's dependency's    libnsl.so.1

I see that now that you pointed it out. Here it is on the machine that's still running a 2.6.38.8 kernel and has webmin installed.

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[technician@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep webmin
webmin-1.490-1pclos2009
[technician@localhost ~]$ locate libnsl
/lib/libnsl-2.13.so
/lib/libnsl.so.1
/usr/lib/libnsl.so
/usr/uclibc/lib/libnsl-0.9.30.1.so
/usr/uclibc/lib/libnsl.so.0.9.30.1
[technician@localhost ~]$
I sure can't figure out what package provides it, though.

[TerryN]

I sure can't figure out what package provides it, though.

It's part of the standard C library  

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[terry@dell ~]$ rpm -qf /lib/libnsl.so.1
glibc-2.13-4pclos2011
or

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[terry@dell ~]$ apt-cache whatprovides libnsl.so.1
<libnsl.so.1>
  glibc-2.13-4pclos2011
    Provides: <libnsl.so.1>
Terry

[djohnston]

Thanks, Terry. I'll have to remember the rpm -qf next time. Actually, if I had gone the full yard on apt-cache whatprovides ...    Live and learn.

[TerryN]

The problem here is that there is a  %pre scriptlet in the SPEC file which determines what OS type it is running on in order to choose what port webmin should listen on.

The scriptlet only checks for 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7 kernels.

Terry.

[pclinmike]

Thanks for the info  

I see there is another webmin release ..    http://www.webmin.com/

Webmin 1.590 and Usermin 1.510 released

This release includes German, Dutch, Catalan and Norwegian translation updates, Ubuntu 12.04 support, a new contributed module for Shorewall6, DNSSEC-Tools support in the BIND module, UI cleanups in the Disk and Network Filesystems module, a new UI for creating an SSL CSR, Unix password restriction improvements, and a vast number of small bugfixes and other improvements. You can get it from the Webmin downloads page, or from our YUM or APT repositories.

June 30, 2012