SYSTEM INFORMATION OS type and version Rocky Linux 8.6 Webmin version Webmin 1.994 Virtualmin version Latest Pro Version - The system will not tell me from the GUI This system has been in service for a year or more. It was converted using the CentOS 8 to Rocky 8 script provided by Ro…

I just found that one of my servers had the same problem, for me this was fixed by restoring a file see here what i did: [image] Cannot write to directory /etc/webmin/virtual-server/ (extra text for dupe title) Virtualmin I have had the same thing happen, no idea what has …

Thank you Steven. FYI, the config file on the broken system is very short, about 50 lines. One on another Rocky 8 system it is almost 500 lines. I’ll grab that and edit it (IP addresses names and such) and do as you suggested. I’ll be doing this in the wee hours of the morning and will report back t…

This is not clear what causes this kind of config files corruption … @Jamie also mentioned that it must happen … @dumorian are you sure that your hard drives aren’t failing?

I have a round robin backup… the typical 11 backkups. Looking back one month… which should be 3 weeks about now, I have a backup of the config file which seems to be complete. I think I’ll backup the running config, restore the newest version (this is Feb 9th for certain. I’ll look to find where it …

On July 18, which would have contained most of July 17th activity, the config file dropped from 8385 to 423. I restored latest of the large files, restarted Webmin and I’m back in business! I had no idea where to begin. Pointing me to the config file was the key! Solved with backup file.

Can you post the contents of the smaller config file? Or a least a diff between when the shorter config and the backup?

[image] dumorian: which would have contained most of July 17th activity, the config file dropped from 8385 to 423. @dumorian Also, do you have any overlapping background services running that could potentially try to obtain a lock and write to a config file? @Jamie , what happens, if two sepa…

I backed up my config file before i overwrote it with a updated-copy from it’s partner slave-dns host. while i do not have a backed up version of its original content, i can provide the file that caused web/virtualmin to break, also in my case it was something along the lines of 700 bytes vs the 7, …

[image] Steven_Verheij: Given that the file contains IP addresses and hostnames i prefer to not openly post the files. Please post the config and truncate/replace any passwords, IPs and hostnames, as this information is irrelevant to the problem. [image] Steven_Verheij: Looking somewhat …

[image] Ilia: @Jamie , what happens, if two separate background processes are running pretty much at the same time and one process obtains a lock on a config file trying to write it, while the other process restarts Webmin? The way Webmin / Virtualmin writes config files, even a restart should…

Cannot write to directory /etc/webmin/virtual-server/ Still an issue

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Steven_Verheij July 26, 2022, 4:39pm 2

I just found that one of my servers had the same problem, for me this was fixed by restoring a file see here what i did: