webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) Upgrade Never Completes on Ubuntu 10.04

Virtualmin
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Hi all. Virtualmin has been running great for me until I tried to upgrade it yesterday from 3.87 using apt. Its still running ok as far as I can tell but the upgrade will not complete.

I have cancelled a few times and after running ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ then cancelling again (as it just hung again) I can run apt a get as far as below then it doesnt do anything else.

root@server:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 6 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Setting up webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) ...

I can see in the system information that it seems to have been at least partially upgraded as I see ‘Virtualmin version 3.88.gpl GPL’.

When I look in the running processes I see:

12386 root 17:11 apt-get upgrade 12392 root 17:11 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 26 --configure webmin-virtual-server webmin-virtualmin ... 12393 root 17:11 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin-virtual-server.postinst configure 3.87.gpl 12408 root 17:11 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/run-postinstalls.pl virtual-server 12568 root 17:12 sh -c service lookup\-domain stop 2>&1 </dev/null 12569 root 17:12 stop lookup-domain

It always seems to have hung at stop or start lookup-domain whatever that is doing.

All seems to still be working which is good, but this will stop any further updates working with apt so I am keen to get it resolved. Can anybody help?

Thanks.

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Ok so I spent half a day Googling and didnt come up with much. Best I could try was to remove the webmin-virtual-server section from /var/lib/dpkg/status file so it would reinstall it again using apt-get -f install.

Did this but again its hanging on ‘Setting up webmin-virtual-server (3.88.gpl) …’ and the last process seems to be ‘stop lookup-domain’.

Should I file this as a bug?

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Hi,
I got the same problem, i search to solve it, but in vain. Hope someone could help us as soon as possible.

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Is your install totally standard? Mines was base Ubuntu with SSH then just ran the setup script, although I disabled the following services after installation using the commands below as I wasnt using them:

rm /etc/rc*/*clam* rm /etc/rc*/*spam* rm /etc/rc*/*proftpd* rm /etc/rc*/*postgres* rm /etc/rc*/*dovecot*
Maybe this has caused the issue…?
*edit - Replace em> with asterix

Also, added the following extra packages

apt-get install php5-curl php5-gd php5-imagick php-apc imagemagick unattended-upgrades apticron libapache-mod-security
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Thanks to andreychek and Jamie this issue is now solved.

The fix is to kill the ‘stop lookup-domain’ process and in my case I also had to kill a ‘start lookup-domain’ process after that as it was still hanging.

Seemingly this is caused by a problem with the Ubuntu upstart system.

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Thanks +premierhw, that did it for me.

Find the pid:
root: /var/log# ps -ef | grep lookup-domain
…
root 12947 12946 0 15:31 ? 00:00:00 stop lookup-domain
…

find the pid (in this example, 12947), and

kill -9 12947

then do the same but look for the pid of “start lookup-domain”

solved it for me, too

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Glad it solved it for you as well. I had the same issue again with the latest Webmin update but the above fix again worked.

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Registered just to say thanks so much for getting me out of neverending dpkg hell. Deleting the lookup-domain processes worked for me.