10.6.0 Release 147 breaks Fantastico 2.10.0

chirpy

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If you want to bring a problem to cPanel's attention, then you need to either log a ticket with them if you have direct support or open a bugzilla entry. However, since Fantastico is a 3rd party product, it's up to them to discuss any issues that they have directly with cPanel.
 

gorilla

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chirpy is totaly right with that!
either way, if you purchased your licence from netenberg you would have gotten an email regarding this , please read below:

IMPORTANT: MANUAL UPDATE NEEDED
Fantastico De Luxe 2.10.0 r1 (LATEST and STABLE releases)

Updates:
None

Changes/Fixes:

Fantastico De Luxe Admin is now moved to WHM Add-Ons. What this means
is:

- In order to upgrade from 2.8.8 r11 (or older) to 2.10.0 r1 (or newer)
you need to follow the UPDATED installation instructions as listed
below and in the FAQ section of our forum.
- After following the instructions below, you will access the admin
section through WHM -> Add-Ons -> Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin.
- You can no more access the admin section through a "Fantastico
Administration" link in CPanel (please update your bookmarks).
- This will make our Features Sets, Usage Rules and Installations
Overview compatible with the new strict permissions that CPanel applies to
certain files (among them httpd.conf).
- Additionally you will no more need to assign an account as the
Fantastico Admin. If you have created an account for solely this purpose, you
may remove it after successful upgrade to 2.10.0 r1 (provided that this
account holds no other important data).
- NOTE 1 for CPanel STABLE users: Fantastico End User fronted will
produce a parse error if you run STABLE 10.2.0-83 and the permissions of
httpd.conf have changed from 644 (as expected by CPanel STABLE 10.2.0-83)
to 600. This may have happened through upgrading and then downgrading
CPanel. Please be aware that CPanel STABLE 10.2.0-83 expects httpd.conf
to be set to 644.
- NOTE 2 for CPanel STABLE users: When running CPanel STABLE,
Fantastico can not install on subdomains/addon domains. This will change when a
STABLE version of CPanel newer than 10.2.0-STABLE_83 will come out
(expected any day).

UPGRADE INFORMATION:
SSH to your server(s) and enter following commands:
cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi
wget http://www.netenberg.com/files/free/fantastico_whm_admin.tgz
tar -xzpf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz
rm -rf fantastico_whm_admin.tgz

Now go to WHM, login as root and follow the link WHM -> Add-Ons ->
Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin. Upon loading, Fantastico De Luxe WHM Admin
will auto-update your existing installation. All admin files
(masterfiles, tarballs, settings etc) will be moved to /var/netenberg.
 

ramborc

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The thing is, given that most large dedicated providers bundle Fantastico with cPanel, I'd guess a large percentage of all cPanel installs also runs Fantastico, so it's been a mystery for a long time for me why cPanel doesn't seem to care at all about checking Fantastico compatibility for every single public release. I mean I don't expect anything from EDGE and I can live with CURRENT being badly tested, but I've been running RELEASE for years on different servers and OSes and it was broken all too many times. And it has broken Fantastico several times with the exact same error. I'm sure it has cost cPanel lots of licenses and potential licenses in the past and it will continue to do so, I myself have been using cPanel for the last 4 years and lately arrived at the point where I'm considering going to something else that actually works. Look if I'm running RELEASE I should be able to expect something better than Beta quality, shouldn't I? Especially that STABLE has turned into a tasteless joke a year or two ago, with regularly being months behind actual development, and having more compatibility issues and bugs than even EDGE at times... also, releasing an EDGE build 145, a CURRENT build 146 and a RELEASE build 147 within less than half an hour is extremely amateurish and irresponsible. This means that there is no other build I could change to as an attempt to fix this problem.

And maybe the worst thing is that I can't even post here without being instantly flamed and bashed by people who obviously don't have servers to run and customers to provide with a service... just for your information, I did get that mail yesterday, and instead of installing it at once, I waited until today, checked the Fantastico forums whether there'd be a big prob with it, found nothing to make me afraid, so I went and did everything the way the instructions said. I'm 99% sure the problem is related to the latest RELEASE build because people could obviously run it on the previous RELEASE build that my server had yesterday too - but this morning it was updated to R147 and I did the Fantastico update after that, which tells me that the most probable cause of all this is that R147 breaks Fantastico again, especially after Kosmo actually took the time to try to troubleshoot the issue with me and walked me through several steps until he was able to determine the problem, i.e. that cPanel once again broke Fantastico in the very same way it once did before (10.2.0 R82). So no I don't see how it should be anyone else's fault than the cPanel devteam and while I've submitted a ticket, I also thought posting here because I'm surely not the only one experiencing this problem.

Don't you have lives to live instead of jumping on people who actually have a real problem? :confused:
 

ramborc

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Hi Gorilla,

Sorry if I overreacted. :) As to the Netenberg mail you quoted, I am subscribed to that mailing list and I did get that mail yesterday and today I was doing exactly what is described there, and that's when everything stopped working (I had 2.8.8 r11 before and it was working, albeit already with a couple of probs due to some recent cPanel changes - another point in my case about DarkOrb's negligence). Since the same thing obviously worked for people yesterday and cPanel threw out a new RELEASE build in the meantime (147), it's pretty obvious this is the prob (Kosmo from Netenberg confirmed this explicitly).
 

cPanelNick

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ramborc said:
Hi Gorilla,

Sorry if I overreacted. :) As to the Netenberg mail you quoted, I am subscribed to that mailing list and I did get that mail yesterday and today I was doing exactly what is described there, and that's when everything stopped working (I had 2.8.8 r11 before and it was working, albeit already with a couple of probs due to some recent cPanel changes - another point in my case about DarkOrb's negligence). Since the same thing obviously worked for people yesterday and cPanel threw out a new RELEASE build in the meantime (147), it's pretty obvious this is the prob (Kosmo from Netenberg confirmed this explicitly).

Actually if the problem is as described, phpMyAdmin in WHM would also break.
 

ramborc

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To cut a long story short, while yesterday the problem was simply not fixable with any of the ideas I got from Netenberg, last night the server was upgraded to a new RELEASE build (158) and suddenly all problems disappeared! I guess now it's obvious to everybody that it was indeed a bug in R147, as I've claimed from the beginning.
 

Snowman30

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I just did an upgrade to Fantastic, installing the new WHM setup for it and its completely totasted WHM turning everythign read only

anyone know how i can fix this?

ive tried a forced upcp but its not helped...