gnome-user-share fails to discover a port for webdav server

Bug #856732 reported by Anna Glasgall
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Bug Description

gnome-user-share (as of 3.0.0, as seen in Oneiric beta) tries to discover a free port to run Apache on by bind()ing a struct sockaddr_in with no port specified in src/http.c:get_port(). However, it neglects to specify an address family, so that attempt fails with EINVAL, and the -1 returned gets passed to spawn_httpd() as the port that Apache should be listening on, which causes to Apache promptly and silently bail. I've attached a debdiff that contains a patch fixing this by specifying AF_INET as the address family.

Tags: patch
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Anna Glasgall (aglasgall) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "Debdiff adding patch to fix port discovery for starting Apache from gnome-user-share" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch in the form of a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags: added: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-user-share - 3.0.0-2ubuntu3

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gnome-user-share (3.0.0-2ubuntu3) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/08_fix_port_discovery.patch:
    - Specify an address family in http.c:get_port() so that the bind()
      succeeds and we actually get a port. LP: #856732
 -- Adam Glasgall <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:08:49 -0400

Changed in gnome-user-share (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-user-share:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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Bernie Innocenti (codewiz) wrote :

Can we please backport this patch to natty? The patch is likely to apply cleanly to the gnome 2.x codebase as well.

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Bernie Innocenti (codewiz) wrote :
Changed in gnome-user-share:
status: New → Fix Released
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