# After update (Sept 2nd 26) getting following error message

**URL:** <https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/after-update-sept-2nd-26-getting-following-error-message/137905>\
**Category:** Virtualmin\
**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/after-update-sept-2nd-26-getting-following-error-message/137905 "2026-09-02T04:19:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![NigelAves1](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@NigelAves1](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/NigelAves1)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/after-update-sept-2nd-26-getting-following-error-message/137905/1 "2026-09-02T04:19:09Z")

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| SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
| --- | --- |
| OS type and version | Debian Linux 12 |
| Webmin version | 2.660 |
| Virtualmin version | 8.2.0 Professional |
| Webserver version | NGINX |
| Related packages | System and Server Status |

(and there is no way to turn it off.)

HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/2.660 Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 04:10:25 GMT Content-type: text/html; Charset=utf-8 Connection: close

## Error — Perl execution failed

```auto
Require virtualmin-nginx/status_monitor.pl failed : Died at (eval 908) line 1.

```

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**Author:** ![NigelAves1](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@NigelAves1](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/NigelAves1)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/after-update-sept-2nd-26-getting-following-error-message/137905/2 "2026-09-02T13:33:00Z")

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Here’s a screen shot of System and Server Status. As you can see I cannot turn this off, so I get an email every 5 minutes reporting this error.

 ![screen](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/a/fa39c118b63e7ee49acf3d11e8ba38577b1401e9.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![irieyuusuke](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/779978/32.png) [@irieyuusuke](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/irieyuusuke)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/after-update-sept-2nd-26-getting-following-error-message/137905/3 "2026-10-04T03:56:52Z")

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# 1) Find the offending monitor definition (filename is a random-looking id)

ls -l /etc/webmin/status/  
grep -ril nginx /etc/webmin/status/

# 2) Move it out of the way (mv, not rm, so you can put it back later)

mkdir -p /root/webmin-status-bak  
mv /etc/webmin/status/\<file from step 1\> /root/webmin-status-bak/

# 3) Clear Webmin’s caches

rm -f /var/webmin/module.infos.cache  
rm -rf /tmp/.webmin/\*

# 4) Restart Webmin

systemctl restart webmin