Redhat 5 Enterprise: Failed to detect operating

Virtualmin
1

Hello
I receive the following error when I try to install virtualmin on Redhat 5 Enterprise.

What should I do?
Thanks
Pol

Checking for HTTP client…found /usr/bin/curl -s -O
Checking for perl…found /usr/bin/perl
Loading log4sh logging library…
INFO - Started installation log in /root/virtualmin-install.log
INFO - Checking for fully qualified hostname…
INFO - Hostname OK: fully qualified as lsmdell.ethz.ch
INFO - Installing serial number and license key into /etc/virtualmin-license
INFO - Loading OS selection library…
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl Succeeded.
INFO - Loading OS list…
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt Succeeded.
Failed to detect operating system
[root@lsmdell bin]#

2

What’s in /etc/issue ?

3

That’s odd – it installed just fine on RHEL5 server I used recently.

4

I see. We’ve never had anyone install on the desktop version of RHEL, so we aren’t detecting it right.

I’ve updated the OS detection file, and I believe it’ll pick up the OS correctly now.

Try it again, and let us know what happens.

5

Joe

Thanks for the responses. I tested it with new downloads. Unfortuntely it does not work. I shows the same errors as below.

The content of /etc/issue is also the same.

I am going to install Redhat 4 enterprise.

Thanks

Pol

Checking for HTTP client…found /usr/bin/curl -s -O
Checking for perl…found /usr/bin/perl
Loading log4sh logging library…
INFO - Started installation log in /root/virtualmin-install.log
INFO - Checking for fully qualified hostname…
INFO - Hostname OK: fully qualified as lsmdell.ethz.ch
INFO - Installing serial number and license key into /etc/virtualmin-license
INFO - Loading OS selection library…
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl Succeeded.
INFO - Loading OS list…
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt Succeeded.
Failed to detect operating system
[root@lsmdell bin]#

6

Hello

I downgraded to Redhat 4 AS Enterprise. It works perfectly. I restored even a virtual server backup. It works.

Thanks for reponses.

Regards

Pol

7

Oh, egads. Don’t downgrade to RHEL4!

I’ll fix it, I’ll fix it! :wink:

8

Mmm, looking at your output there, it appears as if it was able to detect your distro/version okay.

Here’s what I would do – try running the installer a second time, just to make sure some sort of network glitch didn’t hang things up (it’s happened!).

But, if it errors out again, take the file in /root/virtualmin-install.log, and open up a new support ticket (the Bugs and Issues link below), and attach that file to it.

Thanks!
-Eric

9

Eric’s covered the obvious cause, and including the install.log in a ticket is probably the next step.

Also, if continuing the discussion in the forum, start a new topic. This thread is completely unrelated to your problem (as Eric mentioned, your OS is obviously being detected correctly).

10

Here is the content

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m

11

Here is the content

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m

12

Here is the content

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m

13

Hi guys, I just tried installing on RHEL 5 x64 (running in a VMWare VM if it matters), and got the below. I manually ran the yum command as root and all the rpms installed fine, so I assume it’s something else in the script. Is there some detection code I should just hack?

Thanks

My /etc/issue is here:

[code:1]
[root@xyz virtualmin]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m
[/code:1]

[code:1]
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:49:59 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/5/x86_64/virtualmin-release-latest.noarch
.rpm Succeeded.
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:50:03 - Succeeded.
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:50:03 - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/yum -y -d 2 install bind bind-utils caching-n
ameserver httpd postfix bind spamassassin procmail perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBD-MySQL quota iptables openssl python mailman subver
sion mysql mysql-server mysql-devel postgresql postgresql-server rh-postgresql rh-postgresql-server logrotate webalizer ph
p php-domxl php-gd php-imap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-pgsql php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-mbstring mod_perl mod_python cyr
us-sasl dovecot spamassassin mod_dav_svn cyrus-sasl-gssapi mod_ssl ruby ruby-devel rubygems perl-XML-Simple perl-Crypt-SSL
eay
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Cannot continue installation.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - Removing temporary directory and files.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - in /root/virtualmin-install.log
[/code:1]

14

Hi guys, I just tried installing on RHEL 5 x64 (running in a VMWare VM if it matters), and got the below. I manually ran the yum command as root and all the rpms installed fine, so I assume it’s something else in the script. Is there some detection code I should just hack?

Thanks

My /etc/issue is here:

[code:1]
[root@xyz virtualmin]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m
[/code:1]

[code:1]
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:49:59 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/5/x86_64/virtualmin-release-latest.noarch
.rpm Succeeded.
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:50:03 - Succeeded.
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:50:03 - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/yum -y -d 2 install bind bind-utils caching-n
ameserver httpd postfix bind spamassassin procmail perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBD-MySQL quota iptables openssl python mailman subver
sion mysql mysql-server mysql-devel postgresql postgresql-server rh-postgresql rh-postgresql-server logrotate webalizer ph
p php-domxl php-gd php-imap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-pgsql php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-mbstring mod_perl mod_python cyr
us-sasl dovecot spamassassin mod_dav_svn cyrus-sasl-gssapi mod_ssl ruby ruby-devel rubygems perl-XML-Simple perl-Crypt-SSL
eay
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Cannot continue installation.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - Removing temporary directory and files.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - in /root/virtualmin-install.log
[/code:1]

15

Hi guys, I just tried installing on RHEL 5 x64 (running in a VMWare VM if it matters), and got the below. I manually ran the yum command as root and all the rpms installed fine, so I assume it’s something else in the script. Is there some detection code I should just hack?

Thanks

My /etc/issue is here:

[code:1]
[root@xyz virtualmin]# cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
Kernel \r on an \m
[/code:1]

[code:1]
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:49:59 - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/5/x86_64/virtualmin-release-latest.noarch
.rpm Succeeded.
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:50:03 - Succeeded.
INFO - 2009-01-21 10:50:03 - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/yum -y -d 2 install bind bind-utils caching-n
ameserver httpd postfix bind spamassassin procmail perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBD-MySQL quota iptables openssl python mailman subver
sion mysql mysql-server mysql-devel postgresql postgresql-server rh-postgresql rh-postgresql-server logrotate webalizer ph
p php-domxl php-gd php-imap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-pgsql php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-mbstring mod_perl mod_python cyr
us-sasl dovecot spamassassin mod_dav_svn cyrus-sasl-gssapi mod_ssl ruby ruby-devel rubygems perl-XML-Simple perl-Crypt-SSL
eay
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Cannot continue installation.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:04 - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - Removing temporary directory and files.
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log
FATAL - 2009-01-21 10:50:05 - in /root/virtualmin-install.log
[/code:1]