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Fantastico returns error 404 when accessed from cPanel

When going to Fantastico De Luxe link in you cPanel under Paper Lantern theme, or some other theme you might get HTTP error 404 cPanel page shown, saying that requested page was not found.

 

Fantastico 404 page
Fantastico 404 page
Check your theme folder content for fantastico symlink

404 page will most likely be caused by the affected theme not having, a fantastico symlink, or symlink being misdirected.

Go to the folder of the theme, which in case of Paper Lantern theme will be /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern and check for file with name fantastico.

root@server [/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern]# ls -l | grep fantastico
root@server [/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern]#

Folder should have symlink in it, with name fantastico, pointing to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico/, if the symlink is missing create one with ln -s command, also check if the file to which symlink is pointing is an existing file.

root@server [/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern]# ln -s /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico/ fantastico
root@server [/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern]# ls -l | grep fantastico
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Mar 3 18:02 fantastico -> /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico/
root@server [/usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/paper_lantern]#

After creating a needed symlink Fantastico De Luxe page should work as expected.

Reference:

http://legacy.netenberg.com/forum/index.php?topic=1942.0

CentOS 7 OpenVZ NetworkManager issues.

There is an issue with CentOS 7 containers on OpenVZ nodes, where NetworkManager service breaks the network, and only localhost 127.0.0.1 network interface is coming up.

When you try to check network interfaces, and IP address on the server, you will only see localhost interface.

root@server [/]# ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 9059 bytes 1539654 (1.4 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 9059 bytes 1539654 (1.4 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

When issuing service network restart you will and output like this:

Starting network (via systemctl): Job for network.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status network.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
[FAILED]

When you run journalctl -xe you will see errors like this:

-- Unit network.service has begun starting up.
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: Bringing up loopback interface: Could not load file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: Could not load file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo'
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: Could not load file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo'
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: Could not load file '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo'
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: [ OK ]
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: Bringing up interface venet0: Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device founFeb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: [FAILED]
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server network[2262]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server systemd[1]: network.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.
 -- Subject: Unit network.service has failed
 -- Defined-By: systemd
 -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
 --
 -- Unit network.service has failed.
 --
 -- The result is failed.
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed state.
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server systemd[1]: network.service failed.
 Feb 16 05:16:40 server polkitd[226]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2257:65393 (system bus name :1.37, object

Issue can be resolved by stopping and disabling the NetworkManager service.

root@server [/]# service NetworkManager stop
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
root@server [/]# chkconfig NetworkManager off

You can also uninstall NetworkManager completely.

References:

https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/users/2015-December/006691.html

Openvz / CentOS 7 – Network Manager can break networking

 

CSF chattr and urlget warnings on restart

On most CentOS 7 machines you might be getting this type of warnings when restarting or updating ConfigServer Firewall (CSF), if you are missing certain commands or packages on your server.

*WARNING* Binary location for [CHATTR] [/usr/bin/chattr] in /etc/csf/csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable
*WARNING* Missing or incorrect binary locations will break csf and lfd functionality
*WARNING* URLGET set to use LWP but perl module is not installed, reverting to HTTP::Tiny

You also might be getting notifications in mail from your Cron Daemon with subject /usr/sbin/csf -u and following message:

*WARNING* URLGET set to use LWP but perl module is not installed, reverting to HTTP::Tiny

This warnings are showing because of missing packages not being installed on the server, and chattr command doesn’t exist.

[root@server ~]# type chattr
-bash: type: chattr: not found

To resolve CHATTR warning, you need to install e2fsprogs with

yum -y install e2fsprogs

To resolve URLGET warning you need to install perl-libwww-perl with

yum -y install perl-libwww-perl with

If you are getting following warning by mail notifications, or when running csf -u, you are missing perl-LWP-Protocol-https package.

[root@server ~]# csf -u
Oops: Unable to download: Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported (LWP::Protocol::https not installed)

Install perl-LWP-Protocol-https with:

yum -y install perl-LWP-Protocol-https

You might also be getting a following warning, if you don’t have host or unzip commands installed on your server.

*WARNING* Binary location for [UNZIP] [/usr/bin/unzip] in /etc/csf/csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable
*WARNING* Binary location for [HOST] [/usr/bin/host] in /etc/csf/csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable

To resolve HOST warning, you needs to install bind-utils package with

yum -y install bind-utils

To resolve UNZIP warning you need to install unzip package with

yum -y install unzip

tl;dr required packages for CSF

If you are getting any kind of warnings when doing csf -r on CentOS 7 server make sure you have following packages installed.

iptables-services
unzip
bind-utils
perl-libwww-perl
e2fsprogs
perl-LWP-Protocol-https

Needed packages can be installed with following commands:

yum -y install iptables-services
yum -y install unzip
yum -y install bind-utils
yum -y install perl-libwww-perl
yum -y install e2fsprogs
yum -y install perl-LWP-Protocol-https

References:

http://forum.configserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=8864

http://www.liquidweb.com/kb/csf-config-server-firewall-installation/

https://community.centminmod.com/threads/ensure-perl-crypt-ssleay-perl-net-ssleay-are-installed-for-csf-firewall.2183/

systemd conflicts with initscripts during yum update

When running yum update on CentOS 7 OpenVZ container you might get a following error:

--> Processing Conflict: systemd-219-19.el7.x86_64 conflicts initscripts < 9.49.28-1 
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: systemd conflicts with initscripts-9.49.17-1.el7.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Exact version I was running on this server is CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core), and updates were failing due to them requiring a newer systemd version, which required a newer version, v9.49.28 at least,  of initscripts installed.

Reason why systemd was conflicting with current version of initscripts, instead of just updating them to newer version, was that initscripts were excluded from update in yum.conf file.

[root@server ~]# grep exclude /etc/yum.conf
exclude=initscripts*

There are no default exclude packages in default CentOS/RHEL installs, and it wasn’t put there by me, so question is why was initscripts excluded from updates.

Issues with initscripts v9.49.24 in CentOS 7 OpenVZ containers

It turns out there were some issues with initscripts v9.49.24, which seemed to introduce problems with network connectivity on CentOS 7 OpenVZ VPS machines.

https://vpsboard.com/topic/1908-creating-cpanel-openvz-template-wwhm-setup-wizard-fix/?page=2
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/centos-7-openvz-template-in-pve-3-4-issues.21808/

I commented out exclude=initscripts* from yum.conf, and checked the currently available version.

[root@server ~]# grep exclude /etc/yum.conf
#exclude=initscripts*
[root@server ~]# yum check-updates initscripts
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirrors.greenmountainaccess.net
 * epel: mirror.nexcess.net
 * extras: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net
 * updates: mirror.dattobackup.com
 * webtatic: us-east.repo.webtatic.com

initscripts.x86_64                                               9.49.30-1.el7                                                base

Current version is v9.49.30, so I presumed issues with v9.49.24 were corrected in this version, and proceeded with the update.

Update has completed successfully, and all packages including initscrips were updated to latest version, as was CentOS.

[root@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

I haven’t noticed any network or any other issues on the VPS after the upgrade, so it seems any network issues from v9.49.24, don’t exist in v9.49.30.

[root@server ~]# rpm -qa | grep initscripts
initscripts-9.49.30-1.el7.x86_64

cdp_io processes stuck, causing high load or filling up disk space

R1Soft CDP Agent can sometimes have issues with its backup agent dying, and leaving its cdp_io processes running.

This can cause issues with high load on the server, disk space on the server being filled up by CDP agent, or backup policies on CDP server failing, as they won’t be able to start due to stuck cdp_io processes.

If you do ps auxf | grep cdp you might see a lot of processes like this.

root      587475  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:20 cdp_io/1/0

root      587481  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:14 cdp_io/1/1

root      587482  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/2

root      587483  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:13 cdp_io/1/3

root      587487  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:13 cdp_io/1/4

root      587488  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:13 cdp_io/1/5

root      587490  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/6

root      587557  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/7

root      587603  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/8

root      587604  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/9

root      587605  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/10

root      587607  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/11

root      587613  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:13 cdp_io/1/12

root      587691  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:13 cdp_io/1/13

root      587699  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:12 cdp_io/1/14

root      587710  0.0  0.3 2136156 128260 ?      Ss   Dec19   0:13 cdp_io/1/15

Trying to kill those processes with kill -9 will yield no results, and processes will be left running.

Doing a Google search on similar issues returns two possible options to kill those processes, and resolve any possible issues caused by them.

http://wiki.r1soft.com/display/CDP/Solved+Issue+of+CDP+Agent+Dying+During+Backup+Process

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1331701

Three possible options to kill the stuck processes are:

  1. Reboot of the device where cdp_io processes are stuck.
  2. Doing a complete remove, and reinstall of CDP agent.
    NOTE: yum reinstall will not work, you need to remove the packages completely, and install them again.
  3. Doing an update of CDP agent to new version, if newer version is available.

On RedHat-compatible distributions, update to a new version can be made by issuing yum update serverbackup*, or in some cases yum update r1soft* command in shell of the device with CDP agent.

Remove and reinstall CDP agent on RedHat-compatible distributions.

To completely remove, and install CDP agent again, first check what CDP agent packages you have installed on your device.

Check currently installed version.

Currently installed CDP agent packages can be checked with rpm -qa | egrep "serverbackup|r1soft", which will show currently installed serverbackup packages, or r1soft packages, depending on which naming version of the packages you have installed on your machine.

[~]# rpm -qa | egrep "serverbackup|r1soft"
serverbackup-enterprise-agent-5.10.1-8.x86_64
serverbackup-async-agent-2-6-5.12.0-21.x86_64
serverbackup-agent-5.12.0-21.x86_64
serverbackup-setup-5.12.0-21.x86_64

Remove and reinstall CDP agent packages.

Remove CDP agent packages with yum remove serverbackup* or yum remove r1soft*, depending on which packages are installed on your machine.

After you remove the packages, all cdp_io processes should be removed, and any load or disk space usage that was caused by the processes will go down.

Reinstall CDP agent packages again with yum install command on packages you had installed before removal.

For example, for the output of rpm -qa | egrep “serverbackup|r1soft” in the example above, you will run the following command.

[~]# yum install serverbackup-agent serverbackup-async-agent-2-6 serverbackup-enterprise-agent serverbackup-setup

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