Virtualmin Tab Showing Only "Dashboard" Link

[Paraxial]

Operating system: CentOS
OS version: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

I’m not sure exactly when this become an issue as I log into the web interface very little in general, however I’ve gone to create a new account on my server and found the Virtualmin tab contains no drop down or site/server controls whatsoever.

See this screenshot: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

I’ve tried a few things so far:

• Tried different browsers
• Ensured everything was up-to-date via yum update/upgrade
• Installed latest release of usermin/webmin/virtualmin using the various update-from-repo.sh scripts

All these things resulted in no change.

The issue I have is no error messages are being shown and I can’t seem to find anything glaringly obvious in the logs (if I’ve even found the right logs?).

Any help with this would be much appreciated!

[calport]

Hello @Paraxial and welcome to the Virtualmin community forum.

This link has a solution to a similar problem:

[SOLVED] Only "Dashboard" menu is visible ; other menus disappeared

Hello, I use Virtualmin to set up websites. But after a few days using it, the menu items on the left disappeared. Only “Dashboard” menu is visible. See print screen: https://pasteboard.co/I1XT8Rj.png No errors show up, nor in the console. Logged in as root System info: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) rpm -qa | grep webmin webmin-1.900-1.noarch rpm -qa | grep wbm wbm-virtualmin-awstats-5.6-2.noarch wbm-jailkit-0.1-1.noarch wbm-virtualmin-init-2.5-1.noarch wbm-virtualmin-htpasswd-…

[Joe]

Seems unlikely to be the exact same problem (that poster had to try real hard to screw up their system like that!). But, miniserv.error is the right place to look for a problem like this…it does seem apparent something disastrous is going wrong.

[Joe]

@Paraxial

Installed latest release of usermin/webmin/virtualmin using the various update-from-repo.sh scripts

Never do this unless you really know what you’re doing, or you, specifically, have been told to do this by me or Jamie or Eric (Ilia, too, I guess, but he is a little too enthusiastic about recommending it for my taste…but, sometimes he knows about a bug that such an update will fix!).

Edit: And, I will probably never tell you to do it. I’ll try to fix it in a proper package.

Edit2: If it broke after using update-from-repo.sh, I would assume that’s the cause of the problem.

[Ilia]

@Paraxial

Any help with this would be much appreciated

Try:

yum reinstall webmin usermin wbm-virtual-server

[Paraxial]

This turned out to be my issue.

I had indeed upgraded MariaDB previously, I thought in a sensible way, must have not been paying attention when it said Postfix was being removed as I don’t use any mail capabilities of my server.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I didn’t even have the error messages he described in that post!

[calport]

Glad it worked out for you. Cheers!

[Joe]

If you aren’t using mail features, you should turn them off in Features and Plugins.