Bug 16283

Summary:	VLC Web Interface (Lua, http://localhost:8080) returns "Error Loading /"
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	batbajar gombo <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/14988
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vlc-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description batbajar gombo 2015-07-03 14:30:37 CEST

Description of problem:

I'm unable to control VLC media player through the web interface after online upgrade (MGA4->MGA5). With MGA4 everything was working with no issues.

Error message(in Web-Browser):

 Error loading /

 lua/intf/http.lua:80: attempt to call global 'loadstring' (a nil value)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

#rpm -qa \*vlc\* \*lua\*

vlc-plugin-lua-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted
lua-5.2.3-6.mga5
liblua5.2-5.2.3-6.mga5
liblua5.1-5.1.5-9.mga5
phonon-vlc-0.8.2-2.mga5
vlc-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted
npapi-vlc-2.0.6-7.mga5
vlc-plugin-pulse-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted
libvlc5-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-theora-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted
libvlccore8-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted
vlc-plugin-common-2.2.1-1.mga5.tainted


How reproducible:

1. VLC:
Tools â Preferences (select "All" radio-button) â Interfaces â Main interfaces(check "Web" radio-button) â Lua â Lua HTTP â Password(set "Passwort") â Apply (restart VLC)

2. Terminal:
# netstat -tunap |grep vlc
>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2451/vlc            
>> tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      2451/vlc  

3. WEB Browser:
Go to: http://localhost:8080/ â username:_blank_ >> passwort:"Passwort"

==

This is either a bug in Lua/VLC or a missing pkg dependency after the upgrade - but I'm not able to inspect any further.

==

Thanks,
batajar

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2015-07-03 14:33:43 CEST

Assigning to our VLC maintainer.

Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 2 Shlomi Fish 2015-07-03 15:40:34 CEST

(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #1)
> Assigning to our VLC maintainer.

Since I was able to reproduce it with VLC-2.2 built from source , I reported it upstream:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/14988

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
See Also: (none) => https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/14988

Comment 3 batbajar gombo 2015-11-01 15:19:03 CET

Marked as fixed upstream... bug-fix release for Mageia coming any soon?

Thanks Shlomi!

Comment 4 Shlomi Fish 2015-11-01 16:14:34 CET

(In reply to batbajar gombo from comment #3)
> Marked as fixed upstream... bug-fix release for Mageia coming any soon?
> 

I'll package it for Mageia once there is a new upstream release. Otherwise, I don't see this bug as critical enough to warrant a subrel update.

> Thanks Shlomi!

You're welcome.

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2018-04-15 00:09:44 CEST

Hi batbajar,

Thank you for having taken the needed time to report this issue!

If this issue didn't get fixed in Mageia 5, then we regret that. 
Mageia 5 has officially reached its End of Life on December 31st, 2017 https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed/
It only continued to get important security updates since then, because we are waiting for a big Plasma5 update in Mageia 6, that'll fix many of the Mageia 5 => 6 upgrade issues.

Closing this report as OLD, because vlc-3.0.0 in Mageia 6 doesn't have this bug.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => marja11