Bug 21665

Summary:	Please update webmin to v. 1.850, which contains many bug fixes (the upstream rpm doesn't work in Mageia)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jan Pihlgren <jan>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA6TOO, MGA5TOO
Source RPM:	webmin-1.850	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jan Pihlgren 2017-09-05 06:32:28 CEST

Description of problem:
Trying to start webmin version1.850 with MCC.

When I start webmin 1.840 it succeded but says that there is an update 1.850.
I install the update version 1.850, then there impossible to manage webmin.
It is impossible to stop webmin or restart webmin. It looks like locked.
I then uninstall webmin 1.850 and reinstall webmin 1.840.
And it works.

Comment 1 Jan Pihlgren 2017-09-05 06:37:01 CEST

I forget to say that I'm running kernel 4.4.74-desktop-1.mga5

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-09-05 16:07:55 CEST

How did you install webmin-1.850?

Afaik we only have webmin-1.840-1.mga6 in our repositories.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Summary: Can't start webmin 1.850 => Can't start webmin 1.850, but webmin-1.840 works fine.
CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: webmin 1.850 => webmin-1.850

Comment 3 Jan Pihlgren 2017-09-05 16:26:18 CEST

When I start webmin 1.840 there popup a message that old me there was an update.
I then click on the popup and get webmin 1.850.
After that it was impossible to start the webmin server which in turn did it impossible to access webmin.
Then I uninstall webmin (1.850).
After that I installed webmin (1.840) again and it was possible to start webmin.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2017-09-05 17:56:45 CEST

Ok, so you used the upstream rpm and need a Mageia package for webmin-1-850

http://www.webmin.com/changes.html lists:

Version 1.850 (28th June 2017)

        Fixed multi-hostname DNS registration and the display of error messages
          in Let's Encrypt support.
        Numerous Majordomo module improvements, thanks to gnadelwartz.
        Added support for creating and editing port forwards in the FirewallD
          module.
        Filesystems that have less than 1% free disk space are now shown on the
          System Information page.
        Numerous bugfixes across multiple modules. 

That sounds mostly like a bug fix release, I think it would be OK to package webmin-1-850 for our stable releases (and cauldron, of course).

Assigning to all packagers collectively, since there is no registered maintainer for webmin.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6TOO, MGA5TOO
Version: 6 => Cauldron
Summary: Can't start webmin 1.850, but webmin-1.840 works fine. => Please update webmin to v. 1.850, which contains many bug fixes (the upstream rpm doesn't work in Mageia)
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 5 David Walser 2017-09-08 12:15:30 CEST

There are no security fixes and nothing compelling about this update otherwise.  Indeed you shouldn't try to update it yourself from upstream as our package has adaptations to make it work.  One of those is a patch to disable the update notification, which obviously has broken again.  If someone can provide a working patch to do that, I'd appreciate it.  Otherwise, I'll wait until the next security update to update this for Mageia 6.

CC: (none) => luigiwalser
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX