Webmin.service failed after upgrade Unrecognized subcommand: stop at /usr/bin/webmin line 263

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ran the update this AM and webmin would not start, stop or restart, could not get to the web interface, could not run and commnd lines to start/stop/restart

[ ~]# webmin stop
Unrecognized subcommand: stop at /usr/bin/webmin line 263.

systemctl start webmin.service
Job for webmin.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status webmin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

systemctl status webmin.service
webmin.service - Webmin server daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/webmin.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2022-05-27 05:55:54 EDT; 21s ago
  Process: 18522 ExecStart=/etc/webmin/.start-init (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Tasks: 1
   CGroup: /system.slice/webmin.service
           └─4674 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

May 27 05:55:46 server.com systemd[1]: Starting Webmin server daemon...
May 27 05:55:46 server.com .start-init[18522]: Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin
May 27 05:55:47 server.com webmin[18522]: Webmin starting
May 27 05:55:54 server.com .start-init[18522]: Failed to bind to port 10000 : Address already in use
May 27 05:55:54 server.com .start-init[18522]: Could not listen on any ports
May 27 05:55:54 server.com systemd[1]: webmin.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
May 27 05:55:54 server.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Webmin server daemon.
May 27 05:55:54 server.com systemd[1]: Unit webmin.service entered failed state.
May 27 05:55:54 server.com systemd[1]: webmin.service failed.

lsof -i :10000
COMMAND    PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
miniserv. 4674 root    5u  IPv4  39618      0t0  TCP *:ndmp (LISTEN)
miniserv. 4674 root    6u  IPv4  39619      0t0  UDP *:ndmp
SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version centos 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64
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i saw the release note to try /etc/webmin/restart-by-force-kill

that restarted it BUT i still cant get the web interface to come up

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I recently installed Webmin 1.991 onto a new instance of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server at path /usr/local/lib/webmin-1.991 with config file directory /usr/local/etc/webmin. Today I allowed Webmin to upgrade itself to version 1.994, which after the upgrade failed to restart the mini server with error:

~ % systemctl status webmin.service
× webmin.service - Webmin server daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/webmin.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2022-05-27 21:01:44 UTC; 31s ago
    Process: 1680 ExecStart=/etc/webmin/.start-init (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

This seems quite similar to the originally posted problem, yet might be compounded by the reference in the error message to the default path, /etc/webmin/, rather than the correct config file directory path, /usr/local/etc/webmin.

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I got them same problem under 1.994 , if i use the start / stop / restart command it always ends up with

Unrecognized subcommand: * at /usr/bin/webmin line 263.

/*/ stop / start / restart - depends on the command line

I can restart it with

systemctl start webmin.service

Would be glad to get a solution for this.

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Can you show the full command that you use and which fails?

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Sure,

webmin start
webmin restart
webmin stop

all these end up with

Unrecognized subcommand: start at /usr/bin/webmin line 263.

Unrecognized subcommand: restart at /usr/bin/webmin line 263.


Unrecognized subcommand: stop at /usr/bin/webmin line 263.
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  1. Where did you find a reference to use those commands?
  2. What Webmin version do you have installed and how did you install it?
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I just started Webmin localhost:10000 on Ubuntu 22.04 and saw that there was an upgrade, which I chose to install. On completion Webmin server failed to restart. Typing the url in the browser I got a message that “Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:10000.”

I tried sudo systemctl start webmin and got no error message but the browser still cannot connect to it.

Any pointers to documentation on what might have gone wrong?

Thanks.

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[SOLVED] Stopped the Webmin service planning to uninstall and reinstall. After about half an hour, I restarted the server and refreshed the pages I had left open and everything was up and running.

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