This is the worse webmin release ever.

Out of 7 clients I have each of them have all lost VM Pro features/addons/modules.

On my own box it completely deleted VM2 and VM Pro.

I had to reinstall VM Pro on all my clients boxes including mine plus re-download every friggin plugin.

Frankly I am less then impressed with webmin at this point and I advise anyone that hasn't updated to NOT update webmin at all until Jamie/Joe fix this problem.

What OS/version have you seen this behavior on? Were there any errors when updating Webmin?

It happened on...

debian 4.0
Ubuntu Linux 6.10
Mandriva 2007 and 2007.1

And the updates took place automatic so I have no clue if there were any errors but I have disabled all automatic updates from now on because of this.

And the updates took place automatic so I have no clue if there were any errors but I have disabled all automatic updates from now on because of this.

Oh! So it might not be the Webmin update...it could be virtualmin-base? jezdez has reported the postinst running on upgrades (which shouldn't happen, but if it does might cause the theme to be switched back to default, among other things). I'm trying to reproduce this behavior now.

If you'd like me to drop in on your box, I'd be happy to. I'd actually like to see what happened. This is clearly dramatic behavior...but I don't see it on my boxes, and so I'm at a loss for how to fix it.

There was no changing of types of installs either -- tar to rpm or tar to deb

These updates have been the same from day one -- automatic and with no issues before until now.

What are you wanting to look at? I can't give you access right now but I can paste what ever you need.

Doing a upgrade for webmin......

debian package

Setting up webmin (4.0.1) ...
Error: Script was not run with full path (failed to find /usr/share/webmin/run-postinstalls.pl under /usr/share/webmin)

This was intentional to break the postinstall and to show you that it DOES run the postinstall even for a upgrade.

Setting up webmin (4.0.1) ...
Error: Script was not run with full path (failed to find /usr/share/webmin/run-postinstalls.pl under /usr/share/webmin)

That's supposed to happen, and should be harmless (actually it's a positive thing, as it update stuff that has changed between versions). If it's not harmless, we'd want to fix it. I'm testing on an already installed Debian system now to see if there are any issues with the new Webmin or virtualmin-base (I only tested fresh installs over the weekend, though Jamie upgraded all of his Debian and Ubuntu installs without any errors, as far as I know).

The post install script running problem I'm talking about would be with the postinst in the virtualmin-base Debian package. Wholly orthogonal to Webmin's postinstalls scripts. The script I'm talking about is one triggered by Debian's packaging systemm and included in the virtualmin-base deb. This postinstalls.pl is a standard Webmin thing that always gets run on updates--and has been so for many years.

All I know is that upgrading webmin to 4.0.1 is broken. It removes all VM Pro plus plugins and even the VM Pro theme.

I prevented one of my biggest customer from upgrading webmin for fear it will completely kill his users and accounts.