After testing Virtualmin GPL in a vmware debian etch machine and having no problems, I decided today to install Virtualmin GPL on a new dedicated machine.
The machine is freshly installed running debian etch.
During install I get the following error. Which I can’t seem to find much information about.
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INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin Succeeded.
INFO - OK
INFO - OK
INFO - Get:1
INFO - Removing Debian standard Webmin package, if they exist (because they’re broken)…
INFO - Removing Debian apache packages…
INFO - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install postfix postfix-tls postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libapache2-mod-ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl
INFO - …in progress, please wait… -Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf.
This will probably cause strange things to happen!
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Hmm…I have no idea. I don’t think we ever call debconf explicitly (it gets called by dpkg when installing packages, I believe), so I suspect there is something broken in one of the packages we’re installing.
I’ll try to reproduce this today and see if I can figure out what’s happening.
Is there any clue which package is actually being installed when the error occurs (maybe in the virtualmin-install.log, maybe in the terminal output–hard to guess, redirecting apt-get output is a crapshoot).
The terminal output doesn’t give much more information then I already posted.
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Hit http://software.virtualmin.com virtualmin-etch/main Packages
Fetched 3B in 0s (3B/s)
Reading package lists… Done
INFO - Cleaning up apt headers and packages, so we can start fresh…
INFO -
18:13:45 URL:http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/apt.conf.noninteractive [243/243] -> “apt.conf.noninteractive” [1]
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/apt.conf.noninteractive Succeeded.
INFO - Disabling any CD-based apt repositories so the process can run without assistance
INFO - Installing Webmin and Virtualmin package signing keys…
18:13:46 URL:http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin [1690/1690] -> “RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin” [1]
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin Succeeded.
18:13:46 URL:http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin [1320/1320] -> “RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin” [1]
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-webmin Succeeded.
INFO - OK
INFO - OK
INFO - Ign
INFO - Removing Debian standard Webmin package, if they exist (because they’re broken)…
INFO - Removing Debian apache packages…
INFO - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install postfix postfix-tls postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libapache2-mod-ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl
INFO - …in progress, please wait… /Warning: Newline present in parameters passed to debconf.
This will probably cause strange things to happen!
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Hmm…nothing good there. Looks like it could be happening in any of those packages.
If you’d like to continue debugging you could run the dependency installation yourself, with the verbose option (-v) turned on. You wouldn’t need the non-interactive configuration file, since you’re sitting at the console. That’s what I’ll be doing to reproduce this problem.
I am a bit confused, but happy I guess. However I am wondering what was wrong as I did not change anything or do anything.
When I log into the Virtualmin and do the check of the configuration I run into some error:
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BIND DNS server is installed, and the system is configured to use it.
A problem was found with your Postfix virtual maps : No map sources were found in the Postfix configuration
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I guess this is because I manually installed the packages. When installing Postfix it gave me a chose of what kinda config to install. I chose the "no config" options.
What is the best way to fix this?
Remove all package and reinstall?
Uninstall Virtualmin and reinstall?
